Paul Ritter von Zach

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Paul Ritter von Zach, depiction on a lithograph by Ignaz Eigner .

Paul Ritter von Zach (born June 6, 1831 ; † October 19, 1891 ) was an Austrian Austro- Hungarian Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Life

Von Zach served with the Austrian Volunteer Corps in Mexico and took over the powers of Franz Graf von Thun and Hohenstein in Laibach, who set out for Mexico on November 19, 1864 with the first troops of the corps. Von Zach embarked on March 29, 1865 as a relocation commander in the rank of lieutenant colonel with 21 officers and 1,150 men of the corps on the Brasilian from Trieste to Central America, where he arrived on May 11, 1865 in Veracruz . After a battle at Tlapacoya on November 22, 1865 he was promoted to colonel . In July 1866 he quit his service in the volunteer corps and, under his original rank as a major in the Austro-Hungarian army, was given the task of forming the returnees into a hunter battalion . In May 1878 by Zach major general and was commander of the 23rd Infantry - Brigade . At the turn of the year 1883 he was appointed field marshal lieutenant, in April 1886 he retired.

He was married to Emilie Stadler von Gestirner and father of the sinologist Erwin Ritter von Zach (1872-1942) and Colonel Paul Ritter von Zach (1870-1918).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816-1918 ( Online ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Austrian State Archives, © 2007. PDF file, 457 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oesta.gv.at
  2. Jump up ↑ Der Kamerad: Military-Belletristisches Wochenblatt, Volume 4, 1865, p. 380
  3. ↑ Military newspaper, Volume 19, 1866, p. 24
  4. ^ Walter Klinger: For Emperor Max to Mexico - The Austrian Volunteer Corps in Mexico 1864/67 , Grin, 2008, p. 14ff
personal data
SURNAME Zach, Paul Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1831
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1891