Ludwig von Fautz

Ludwig Ritter von Fautz (born August 20, 1811 in Vienna , † February 23, 1880 in Penzing , today Vienna) was Vice Admiral and Commander of the Austrian Navy .

Ludwig Ritter von Fautz as rear admiral around 1860

Life

He was born in Vienna as the son of Anton Moritz Fautz (cloth manufacturer and master cloth maker) and Florentina Troclét. His brothers were Lieutenant Colonel August Fautz Leopold Order Knight († July 28, 1859 in Friedek / Silesia as well as battalion commander in Infantry Grenadier Regiment No. 23 Freiherr von Airoldi) and Major of the Arcieren Bodyguard Anton von Fautz. After joining the Navy on March 8, 1826, Fautz was a naval cadet in the bombing of Moroccan Atlantic ports in 1829 in response to the hijacking of an Austrian ship by Moroccan pirates. In the Italian War of 1848/49 he was involved in the blockade of Venice and the bombardment of Ancona under Vice Admiral Hans Birch Dahlerup as commander of the paddle steamer SMS Vulkan and SMS Curtatone . He suffered a severe wound (liver gunshot), the consequences of which he suffered until the end of his life. On June 14, 1849, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold for “demonstrated bravery” for this commitment . Fautz was also involved as a squadron commander in the action of the land forces under the command of General Lazarus Freiherr von Mamula against the Bocche di Cattaro in 1849 .

With the sailing frigate SMS Venus , built in 1832 , he undertook numerous training trips for the Naval College in the Mediterranean and drove to England in 1849, to Naples , Lisbon and Madeira in 1849/1850 , and to the West Indies in 1851 , where he worked in Saint Thomas , La Guaira in the Bahamas Strait and also was in Havana , Cuba. Fautz was also bearer of the Military Merit Cross , Commander of the Papal Order of Gregory , the Greek Order of Savior , Privy Councilor and Grand Officer of the Mexican Guadelupe Order.

Certificate of appointment as a knight from 1854

In March 1852 Fautz became the commandant of a ship of the line and was one of the first Austrian captains of the line to command a steam-powered battleship. On December 27, 1854 he was raised to the hereditary knighthood of the Austrian Empire . In 1856 he was appointed rear admiral . Under Archduke Ferdinand Max , he was chairman of the newly created naval chancellery of the emperor from August 1856, and was squadron commander in 1852/1853, 1855 and 1859/1860 and his deputy from 1858 to 1860.

From 1860 to 1865 Fautz was in command of the entire Austrian Navy, from 1864 as Vice Admiral, from July 1865 - with the abolition of the Navy Ministry - until March 1868 he served as head of the naval section in the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry . His successor was Wilhelm von Tegetthoff with whom he had had numerous differences over the years. In 1869 he went into final retirement and plunged into the adventure of a late marriage (married August 28, 1869 to Ah. Approval from July 29, 1869 with the 15-year-old Hermine Müllern von Schönenbeck), in which he became a father ( the son was the Kuk corvette captain Gustav Heinrich Ritter von Fautz 1878-1922).

literature

• Alexander Duschitz and SFHoffmann: Kaiser Jubiläumswerk 1848–1908, The Supreme Warlord and his staff
• Franz Emil Lorenz Count Wimpffen Fmlt. Entries to the conduite; Trieste, December 31, 1853
• Arno Georg Kerschbaumer: civil servants, entrepreneurs, officers , pp. 37–44

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Frank-Döfering: Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804-1918. Herder, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-210-24925-3 , p. 293, no.2042.
2. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The KK or KuK Generalität 1816–1918 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Austrian State Archives, Vienna 2007, p. 44 (PDF). 
3. ↑ Military Ordinance Gazette, No. 48, July 30, 1859.
4. ^ Karl Gogg: Austrian Navy 1848-1918 . Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, 1967, pp. 55, 126 u. 127.
5. ^ ^{A b c} Heinrich Bayer von Bayersburg: Austria's admirals. Bergland Verlag, 1962, Volume 1, p. 26.
6. ↑ Hans Birch Freiherr von Dahlerup: In Austrian service. Volume I and II Meyer & Jessen Verlag, Berlin 1911; I pp. 128, 179; Vol. II pp. 18, 28, 100 and 213.
7. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Austrian Empire. kkKriegsmarine, Vienna 1868, p. 184 (Google Books) .
8. ^ Genealogical paperback 1858. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 545 (Marine Oberkommando Triest).
9. ^ Genealogical paperback 1865. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 692 u. 702: Minister of the Navy s. o. Council of Ministers Deputy Minister.
   Genealogical paperback 1866. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 716: Head of the section for the Navy (subordinated to the War Ministry since August 1, 1865).
   Genealogical paperback 1867. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 647: Chief of the section for the navy.
   Heinrich Bayer von Bayersburg: Austria's admirals. Bergland Verlag, 1962, Volume 1, p. 25.
   Lawrence Sondhaus: The naval policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918. Navalism, industrial development, and the politics of dualism. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Ind. 1994, ISBN 1-55753-034-3 , pp. 8 and 385.
10. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The Austrian admirals. Volume I 1808–1895, Bibliotheksverlag, Osnabrück 1997, pp. 122–126.
11. ^ Arno Georg Kerschbaumer: Officials, Entrepreneurs, Officers Volume III 2018, self-published, Graz 2018, pp. 39–44.

Web links

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predecessor	Office	successor
Archduke Ferdinand Max	Navy commander 1861–1865	Wilhelm von Tegetthoff
Archduke Ferdinand Max	Chief of the Marine Section 1865–1868	Wilhelm von Tegetthoff