Nikolaus Ungnad von Weißenwolf

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Nikolaus Graf Ungnad von Weißenwolf (born August 16, 1763 in Prague , † April 11, 1825 in Linz ) was an Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and knight of the Maria Theresa Order .

Life

He was born in 1763 as the son of Guidobald Weißenwolf (1723–1784) and Josepha von Salza zu Heidersdorf in Prague.

He was accepted as a page in 1775 under the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc , and knighted in 1776. In 1777 he joined the Imperial Infantry Regiment No. 57 as an ensign , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1778 . In 1784 he moved as first lieutenant to Infantry Regiment No. 32. During the war against the Turks in 1788 he took part as a captain in the Eszterhazy Infantry Association. In the war against France in 1793 he fought at Maubeuge and in 1794 at the Neckarschanze near Mannheim and in 1796 under Archduke Karl in the battle of Würzburg . He was promoted to major in the same year and served in Major Löwenberg's Croatian Freikorps in 1797, later rose to lieutenant colonel after its dissolution in the Hoch- und Deutschmeister Infantry Regiment No. 4 and then with the Infantry Regiment No. 11.

In the 1799 campaign in the Engadine, he led his unit on an arduous march through the mountains and successfully stabbed the French troops in the rear. Then he was given command of a newly formed grenadier battalion in Tyrol , he fought the French at Taufers, took part in the battles at Novi , Genola and Marengo and was promoted to colonel in June 1800 . In the campaign of 1805 he led the Eszterhazy infantry regiment and proved himself to such an extent in the battle of Caldiero that Archduke Charles promoted him to major general on the battlefield .

In 1809 he commanded an infantry brigade in the Corps of FML Hiller and took part in the battles near Landshut , Ebelsberg , Aspern , Wagram and Znaim . Especially his engagement in the fighting for Essling brought him the rank increase to field marshal lieutenant and the colonel ownership of the infantry regiment No. 3. In 1810 he acted as general inspector in Bohemia.

During the war of liberation in 1813 he was in command of a grenadier division. On October 16, 1813 he fought in the Battle of Leipzig in the association of the Reserve Corps of the General of the Cavalry Prince Friedrich von Hessen-Homburg. His troops advanced via Loschwitz and Deuben on the right bank of the Pleiße near Gröbern. He supported the Bianchi division and the cavalry under Nostitz in the battle of Wachau . The rapid intervention of his troops stopped the further advance of the French. In the fight against the Poniatowski corps , he was able to successfully repel enemy attacks near Dölitz and take this place. For this achievement he received the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order and the Russian Order of St. Anna 1st Class . Weißenwolf also took part in the other campaigns in Germany and France. In 1814 he fought in the battle of Fère-Champenoise and before Paris . In 1815 he was a division general in Brno , Pressburg and Vienna. In 1816 he acted as military commander in Linz and Salzburg . He died in active service in 1825 and was buried in Steyregg .

literature

  • Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 , Volume 15, (Lfg. 67, 2016), p. 109