Karl von Steininger (General, 1804)

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Karl von Steininger , since 1851 Karl Ritter von Steininger , since 1859 Karl Freiherr von Steininger (born December 28, 1804 in Vienna ; † January 26, 1867 ibid) was an Imperial Austrian Feldzeugmeister and last commanding general in the Banat with his official seat in Temesvár .

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Karl von Steininger was born on December 28, 1804 in Vienna into a family of civil servants from the Elector of Mainz in the Rhineland at the beginning of the 18th century . His grandfather, who was supposed to have a clerical profession, left the seminary prematurely and subsequently joined the imperial army. There he was wounded several times, as well as once in captivity, and ended his career with the rank of captain. In each of the following three generations there was an excellent general, of whom the son Karl, father of the 1804 born, was the first in this series. His father, just mentioned, was stationed in Vienna at the time of his birth and was promoted to colonel and adjutant general in the army in Germany a little over a year later .

The here described Karl von Steininger, born in 1804, joined the infantry (9th line infantry regiment) as an ensign in 1841 and rose to lieutenant captain in the 7th line infantry regiment in 1831 . In 1841 he was a major in Infantry Regiment No. 26 , joined Border Infantry Regiment No. 17 and in the years 1848/49 was in the rank of colonel as commander of the border infantry regiment No. 3 involved in the fighting of the First War of Independence in Italy . For his performance in the conquests of San Siro and Sforza in Lombardy , he received the in 1849 Knight's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold- excellent and in the June 25, 1851 knighthood raised. Henceforth he was allowed to appear as Karl Ritter von Steininger . Also in 1849 he became major general and brigadier and as such accompanied the field marshal lieutenant Franz Graf Gyulai von Maros-Németh and Nádaska on a mission to Saint Petersburg before he himself rose to field marshal lieutenant in 1856 and was appointed commander of the Mainz fortress . After the explosion of the powder tower there in November 1857, which resulted in 120 deaths, von Steininger distinguished himself in organizing the rescue work.

After he was promoted to head of the Presidential Office at the Army High Command in March 1858, he acted as Inspector General of the Gendarmerie from September 8, 1859 and became a Privy Council on October 29 of the same year , and on December 2 of the same year the status of baron . From then on he was allowed to call himself Karl Freiherr von Steininger . In the following year he was the owner of Infantry Regiment No. 68 and was appointed commanding general in the Banat with official seat in Temesvár , today's Timișoara , around five years later, in April 1865 . On November 12, 1866, von Steininger retired with the rank of field marshal lieutenant for health reasons. In the course of this takeover into retirement, he received the rank of Feldzeugmeister in early December 1866 . About a month after his 62nd birthday, von Steininger died on January 26, 1867 after 45 years of service in his native Vienna.

His son of the same name (1847–1929) was, as already mentioned, also a high-ranking military person who was also employed as a general towards the end of her career.

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SURNAME Steininger, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Austrian Feldzeugmeister and commanding general in the Banat
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Habsburg Monarchy
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1867
Place of death Vienna , Austrian Empire