Siegmund Joachim von Trauttmansdorff
Count Siegmund Joachim von Trauttmansdorff (* unclear; † April 1, 1706 in Vienna ) was in imperial and other military service, most recently in the rank of field marshal .
Life
He came from the von Trauttmansdorff family . He was the son of Adam Maximilian, Freiherr von Trauttmansdorff and his mother Engelburt (nee Freiin Hager zu Altensteig). He himself married Maria Anna Countess von Herberstein . The only descendant was Ferdinand Siegmund Leopold Graf von Trauttmansdorff.
Although he was already thirty years old, he turned to the imperial military service. He quickly rose to become a colonel in a dragoon regiment . In 1683 he entered the service of Electoral Saxony with the rank of major general when the Saxon elector provided the emperor with troops for the Turkish wars . He contributed to the liberation of Vienna . His brother Ferdinand Maximilian died defending the city.
A short time later he returned to the imperial service. He took on a mixture of German and Croatian soldiers and defeated the Ottomans in several skirmishes in Bosnia . He was badly wounded in the battle of Widdin in 1689.
After his recovery, he left the imperial service. He entered the service of the Republic of Venice . In the war with Austria and Poland against the Ottomans, Trauttmansdorff commanded the Venetian troops in Dalmatia with great success .
He then temporarily returned to the imperial service until the new Polish king Friedrich August von Sachsen asked the emperor to leave Trauttmansdorf to him. With the rank of lieutenant general, he marched with the Saxon troops to Poland in 1698. To a fight with Karl XII. it did not come from Sweden because Emperor Leopold I ordered it back in 1700.
Now with the rank of field marshal, he was sent to Italy. He fought there together with Guido von Starhemberg in the battle of Luzzara in 1702. He covered the Parmas border in the winter of 1703/04 .
After Eugene of Savoy had obtained an imperial decree that forbade regiment owners to sell officer positions, Trauttmansdorff did not adhere to it. In 1704, Eugen was released from active military service. Trauttmansdorff first went to Venice and then returned to Vienna.
literature
- GA Schweigerd: Austria's heroes and military leaders. Vol. 2 Grimma, 1853 pp. 641-644
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Trauttmannsdorff, Sigmund Joachim . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 47th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1883, p. 81 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : The Turkish Wars in the Mirror of Saxon Biographies , Gabriele Schäfer Verlag Herne 2019, ISBN 978-3-944487-63-2 , p. 76.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Different dates of birth are given. Schweigert mentions 1620, the list of Austrian generals gives 1636 or 1641. Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial Generals (1618–1815) p. 103 Digital copy ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trauttmansdorff, Siegmund Joachim von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trauttmansdorff, Siegmund Joachim Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Field Marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1706 |
| Place of death | Vienna |