Karl von Steininger (officer)

Karl von Steininger (born August 17, 1772 in Netschetin , Bohemia , † October 5, 1841 in Orlat , Transylvania ) was an Imperial Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and most recently fortress and city commander of Venice .

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Karl von Steininger was born on August 17, 1772 in Netschetin (Bohemia) into a family of civil servants from the Elector of Mainz in the Rhineland at the beginning of the 18th century . His father, who was supposed to have a clerical profession, left the seminary prematurely and subsequently joined the imperial army . He was wounded several times, was captured and ended his career as a captain . In each of the following three generations there was an excellent general, of whom the son Karl was the first in this line.

After attending the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt in 1783, Karl Steininger was assigned to Infantry Regiment No. 47 retired. From 1801 to 1805 he acted as adjutant to Field Marshal Ferdinand Friedrich August von Württemberg . On February 1, 1806, he became a colonel and adjutant general in the army in Germany, rose almost exactly three years later to the day, on February 15, 1809, to major general and became adjutant general at Archduke Carl's headquarters . Under the Archduke, he was wounded during the Battle of Aspern (May 21-22, 1809), which was considered Napoleon's first defeat on the battlefield. In 1814 he acted as a brigadier in Pest and rose to field marshal lieutenant in 1826 , then he became a general in Klagenfurt . He ended his career as the fortress and city commander of Venice and as a privy councilor ; Positions he held from 1835. On October 5th, 1841 Steininger died at the age of 69 in the village of Orlat in Transylvania.

His son of the same (1804-1867) and his grandson of the same son (1847-1929) were, as mentioned above, also high-ranking military people who were at the end of their careers out as generals in use.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Steininger, Karl Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 99 ( digitized version ).
• Antonio Schmidt-Brentano:  Steininger, Karl (1772–1841). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 190.
• Johann Svoboda : The Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and its pupils I. Vienna 1894, p. 228 .