Karl of Kopal

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Karl von Kopal, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , ca.1848
Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Karl von Kopal (born February 3, 1788 in Schidrowitz (Ctidružice) , Moravia, † June 17, 1848 in Vicenza , Italy) was an Austrian officer .

Life

Karl von Kopal attended grammar school in Znojmo and secondary school in Nikolsburg . He then entered the kk infantry regiment No. 22 as a commoner , with whom he took part in the battle of Austerlitz .

He received a brief training in the cadet company in Theresienstadt and was promoted to lieutenant in Feldjäger Battalion 6 in 1809 . Since he distinguished himself when he withdrew to Regensburg , he was promoted to lieutenant in 1809 . In 1813 he took part in the battle of Leipzig as a lieutenant captain and was promoted to captain in 1814 .

In the years that he spent in garrisons in Bohemia and Moravia , he was promoted to major in the Imperial Infantry Regiment No. 8 in 1835 . In 1836 he became the commandant of Feldjäger Battalion 7 in Fiume , and in the following year Kopal was raised to the nobility .

In 1841 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and transferred to the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger regiment . In 1846 he was appointed Colonel in command of the Feldjäger Battalion 10. This unit distinguished itself particularly in 1848 in the defense of Santa Lucia on May 6th and the capture of Vicenza on June 10th. Kopal himself was badly wounded in the process, so that his right upper arm had to be amputated. A few days later, however, he died of wound fever as a result of the surgery. During his lifetime he received the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order for his services in St. Lucia.

Posthumously he was awarded the Military Maria Theresa Order on November 27, 1848 . His children were given the baron status in 1852.

Museum reception

The so-called Kopalhorn ( trumpet of honor of the kk Feldjäger Battalion No. 10) is exhibited in the Vienna Army History Museum . The battalion received this award for successfully storming Monte Berico near Vicenza on June 10, 1848 under the command of Colonel Karl von Kopal, who finally succumbed to the wounds suffered in this battle.

Appreciation

  • On October 16, 1853, a copal monument was unveiled in Znojmo .
  • In 1894, Kopalgasse in Vienna's 11th district, Simmering, was named in his honor.
  • The motor vehicle battalion No. 3 of the Federal Army of the First Republic carried the honorary name of Kopal
  • The army named in the Second Republic, the former Kopal barracks in St. Poelten after him.
  • The Lower Austria Hunter Battalion has been using the traditional name Kopal since May 7, 2012
  • Song (text) in 5 stanzas: "Colonel Kopal, the brave hero" with the beginning of the text "What should the cross at the cemetery there" (handwritten record in the Tyrolean folk song archive, Inv.No. 112k, 7; 14)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ read on kopaljaeger.at , accessed on October 3, 2012
  2. ↑ read on kopaljaeger.at , accessed on October 3, 2012
  3. ↑ read on kopaljaeger.at , accessed on October 3, 2012
  4. ↑ Jaromir Hirtenfeld : The Military Maria Theresa Order and its Members , Imperial Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1857, p. 1752.
  5. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 77
  6. ↑ to be found at kopaljaeger.at , accessed on June 4, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Kopal, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Schidrowitz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1848
Place of death Vicenza , Italy