Moritz Heinrich von Boyneburg

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Moritz Freiherr von Boineburg

Moritz Heinrich Freiherr von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld , also Boineburg , (born October 2, 1788 in Weimar , † September 20, 1868 in Vienna ) was a German officer who first served in French and then in Austria. At the end of his career he was an Imperial and Royal Cavalry General and a real chamberlain .

Origin and family

Moritz came from the Ludwig line of the "Black Tribe" of the Boyneburg family , whose founder died in 1540 and was a descendant of the imperial general Konrad (Kurt) (1494–1567).

A cousin of his, Baron Karl Wilhelm Ludwig von Boineburg-Lengsfeld (* August 27, 1785; † March 24, 1865), received permission to resume the dignity of a count in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Saxony-Weimar in 1859 and 1860 and was also in Bavaria enrolled in the count class. His grandson, Count Karl Sigismund von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld (born October 20, 1852), was then head of the count's branch of the family.

Life

Boyneburg entered young in the Prussian army, served since 1807 his goods because of the Westphalian army and lived most campaigns under Napoleon I at, but went on 22 August 1813 the regiment that he and Lieutenant Colonel after another colonel , commanded , over to the Austrians.

In Austrian service, the officer first served as a lieutenant colonel in Hussar Regiment No. 8 with the staff in Horodenka ( Galicia ), and appeared in 1831 as Colonel of the Dragoon Regiment Colonel von Fiquelmont No. 6.

With the rank of November 3, 1832 Boyneburg advanced to major general and brigadier in Timisoara , then on January 21, 1842, promoted to field marshal lieutenant , to divisional officer to Ofen . On May 11, 1848, he took over the management of the Hungarian General Command in place of Baron Karl von Lederer, which he exchanged for a position in Galicia in July of that year , where he joined the commanding General William Friedrich von Hammerstein on November 1, 1848 Suppressed the Lviv uprising . At the beginning of 1849 he became a military commander in Austrian Silesia in Opava . From 1849 he was the second owner of the Dragoon Regiment Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany No. 4.

On May 14, 1853, the knight of the royal French Legion of Honor and kk real chamberlain retired and on August 6, 1853 he was honored with the title of general of the cavalry ad honores .

The baron and German patriot wrote a family story, "The Boyneburge".

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the barons of Boyneburg-Lengsfeld
Coat of arms of the Barons of Boyneburg

1653: The original coat of arms of the Boyneburg-Lengsfeld, is a four-fold black and silver divided shield, and on the helmet two open, equally divided buffalo horns. As the next agnates of the extinct imperial line, the line of the barons did not have the title, but they did adopt the coat of arms ( augmented by Emperor Ferdinand III on September 1, 1653), which consists of a silver and black quadruple double imperial eagle on its chest the coat of arms described above is at rest.

plant

  • The Boyneburge, in Joseph von Hormayr's “Archive for History, Statistics, Literature and Art” No. 17, p. 109 ff., 1826

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=122726
  2. ↑ Heinrich Freiherr von Hausen (ed.): "Allgemeine Militär-Encyclopädie", Volume 3, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1861, p. 19
  3. ↑ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerey, Vienna 1825, p. 312
  4. ^ Franz Sales Kandler: "Mirror of Honor of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army", Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1831, p. 211
  5. ^ A b Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 21
  6. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Boyneburg+%5B2%5D
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener (Ed.): "State and Society Lexicon - New Conversations Lexicon", Volume 4, Verlag F. Heinicke, Berlin 1861, p. 378
  8. ↑ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1854, p. 453
  9. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire, Part 1, kk Hof- und Staats-Aerarial-Druckerey, Vienna 1836, p. 312
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Steinitz: "East and West in the History of Thinking and Cultural Relations", Volume 15 of "Sources and Studies on the History of Eastern Europe", Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1966, p. 562
  11. ^ Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: “New Prussian Adels Lexicon: or genealogical and diplomatic news”, Volume 1, Verlag Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 272
personal data
SURNAME Boyneburg, Moritz Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyneburg-Lengsfeld, Moritz Heinrich Freiherr von (full name); Boineburg, Moritz Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1868
Place of death Vienna