Oswald von Coburg

Viktor Oswald Freiherr von Coburg (born September 11, 1822 in St. Wendel , † December 13, 1904 in Dresden ) was a Saxon-Coburg-Gotha baron and an Austro-Hungarian major general .

Life

family

Coburg was the second of four children of the Saxon-Coburg secret councilor and chief stableman and - from 1816 to 1824 - regional president in the Principality of Lichtenberg , Baron Ludwig Friedrich Emil von Coburg (1779-1827), and his wife, who later became the chief stewardess Countess Tekla Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1799–1880). His father Emil was an illegitimate son of Ludwig Karl Friedrich von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1755-1806), the fifth of seven children of Ernestine Duke Ernst Friedrich von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , and the Huguenot N. Brutel de La Rivière.

After the early death of their father, the four Coburg children came under the guardianship of Karl August von Wangenheim .

In 1862 Oswald von Coburg married the baroness Anna von Pawel-Rammingen (1842–1920), with whom he had six children. Anna was the older sister of Alfons von Pawel-Rammingen (1843-1932), who married Princess Friederike of Hanover and Cumberland (1848-1926) in 1880 .

After his retirement, Coburg lived in Niederlößnitz near Dresden in Saxony in 1895 , in the villa at Zillerstraße 11 , which is now a listed building , and later in Dresden.

Military career

After attending the Vitzthum Gymnasium in Dresden, Coburg entered the local military training institute in 1838 . After passing the officer's examination, he joined the Austrian army on January 30, 1841, initially as an unconditional cadet in the 2nd Dragoons Regiment of King Ludwig von Baiern. In 1843 he was promoted to Unterleutnant, in 1849 to Oberleutnant, in 1851 and 1852 he was appointed Rittmeister 2nd and 1st class.

In 1862 when he married he was a major. In 1863 the major was transferred from the cuirassier regiment "King Ludwig of Bavaria" No. 10 to the Kuk Dragoon Regiment No. 4 , with whom he took part in the campaign in Bohemia as a newly promoted lieutenant colonel in 1866 during the German War . For this he received “the highest commendation”.

From March 1869 to 1876 Coburg commanded as a lieutenant colonel and later as a colonel the Dragoons Regiment Wilhelm Herzog von Braunschweig No. 7 of the Joint Army of Austria-Hungary .

Awards

Coburg received the following awards, among others:

Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Henry the Lion
Commander's Cross 2nd class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
Order of the Iron Crown III. class
" Highest Commendation "

literature

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. Volume 18, Perthes, 1868, p. 119 f. ( Online ).

Web links

Tekla Countess Vitzthum von Eckstädt, around 1820, pastel, 50 × 40 cm. Portrait of Nikolaus Lauer

Individual evidence

↑ Ducal Saxony-Coburg government and intelligence gazette. Dietz, Coburg 1827, column 768.
↑ So the nickname .
↑ Ducal Saxony-Coburg government and intelligence gazette. Dietz, 1827, col. 757.
↑ ^a ^b Address book and housing and business manual of the Lößnitz localities, including the following communities: Kötzschenbroda with the district of Fürstenhain, Niederlößnitz, Naundorf, Zitzschewig and Lindenau, as well as Radebeul, Serkowitz, Oberlößnitz and the residents of the Lößnitzgrund. Kötzschenbroda 1895. p. 53.
↑ Ad examen anniversarium diebus ii, iii, iv: mensis Septembris in Gymnasio vitzthumiano ac Schola Blochmannia publice instituendum ... E. Blochmann, 1839, p. 49.
↑ Major General Oswald Freiherr v. Coburg. In: Military newspaper. Vol. 32. No. 25 of March 25, 1879, pp. 185 f., Under Army News ( online at ANNO ).
↑ Request from the chief stewardess Thekla von Coburg for a marriage deposit for her son Oswald von Coburg, Austrian major. In: Finding aid of the Thuringian State Archives Gotha .
^ Imperial-Royal Army Ordinance Gazette, Volume 13. 1863, p. 235.
^ Streffleur's military journal. LW Seidel, 1866, p. 27.
↑ A. Graf Thorheim: commemorative sheets from the war history of the KK Austrian army. Vienna and Teschen 1880, p. 32 “ 1866 For distinction in the campaign in Bohemia. "
^ History of the kuk Dragoon Regiment Kaiser Ferdinand, edition 4; editions 1672-1902. P. 408.

personal data
SURNAME	Coburg, Oswald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Coburg, Viktor Oswald Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian major general
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Wendel on the Blies
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1904
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Ducal Saxony-Coburg government and intelligence gazette. Dietz, Coburg 1827, column 768.

[2] So the nickname .

[3] Ducal Saxony-Coburg government and intelligence gazette. Dietz, 1827, col. 757.

[adr1895-4] Address book and housing and business manual of the Lößnitz localities, including the following communities: Kötzschenbroda with the district of Fürstenhain, Niederlößnitz, Naundorf, Zitzschewig and Lindenau, as well as Radebeul, Serkowitz, Oberlößnitz and the residents of the Lößnitzgrund. Kötzschenbroda 1895. p. 53.

[5] Ad examen anniversarium diebus ii, iii, iv: mensis Septembris in Gymnasio vitzthumiano ac Schola Blochmannia publice instituendum ... E. Blochmann, 1839, p. 49.

[6] Major General Oswald Freiherr v. Coburg. In: Military newspaper. Vol. 32. No. 25 of March 25, 1879, pp. 185 f., Under Army News ( online at ANNO ).

[7] Request from the chief stewardess Thekla von Coburg for a marriage deposit for her son Oswald von Coburg, Austrian major. In: Finding aid of the Thuringian State Archives Gotha .

[8] Imperial-Royal Army Ordinance Gazette, Volume 13. 1863, p. 235.

[9] Streffleur's military journal. LW Seidel, 1866, p. 27.

[10] A. Graf Thorheim: commemorative sheets from the war history of the KK Austrian army. Vienna and Teschen 1880, p. 32 “ 1866 For distinction in the campaign in Bohemia. "

[11] History of the kuk Dragoon Regiment Kaiser Ferdinand, edition 4; editions 1672-1902. P. 408.