Sigmund von Renner

Albert Anker : Sigmund von Renner (based on a missing portrait)

Sigmund Renner (born April 6, 1727 in Nidau , Canton Bern , † August 28, 1800 in Neuwaldegg near Vienna ), Baron von Renner since 1774 , was an imperial-royal general of Swiss origin. As an adjutant and housemate of Field Marshal Lacy , he was part of Joseph II's circle.

Life

origin

Sigmund Renner was a son of the watchmaker and Venner von Nidau Johann Anton Renner from his first marriage to Maria Magdalena Gall. According to his father's will, he should succeed the Landschreiber von Nidau. Therefore he became clerk to the bailiff of Romainmôtier . However, he fell out with his superior and in 1758 entered service as a volunteer or as a Fourier in imperial and royal service.

Military career

Field Marshal Lacy

In the same year he was promoted to first lieutenant after he had distinguished himself as adjutant to the then major general Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy (1725-1801) in the battle of Hochkirch . After another award in the Battle of Torgau , the now Feldzeugmeister Lacy made him his first adjutant in 1760, and Emperor Franz I elevated him to the imperial nobility . In 1768 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and became adjutant general to Lacy, who was appointed field marshal as president of the court war council (1766–1774).

Since Lacy was the military mentor and closest friend of Joseph II, Renner belonged to the emperor's circle. In 1769 he took part in his meeting with Friedrich II of Prussia in Nysa . He accompanied Lacy, who in tuberculosis suffered in 1771 the waters in Spa . In 1773/74 he traveled with Lacy through Switzerland to Montpellier and back to Vienna via Marseille , Paris , Versailles , Spa and Brussels . When Lacy became Minister of State and Conference in 1774, Joseph II made Renner an imperial baron . In 1776 he received the rank of colonel . In 1777 he gave Bern advice on how to treat the Emperor , who appeared as Count von Falkenstein , when he was passing through Switzerland. In the War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778 he was chief of the Quartermaster General of the Army Center commanded by Lacy.

According to Joseph II's patent of tolerance , Renner was one of the founders of the Reformed community in Vienna in 1782 . In 1783 he became major general, but retired the following year. He remained Lacy's housemate and died at his Neuwaldegg Castle.

siblings

Renner's half-brother Johann Anton (1743-1800) possessed the feet of the Habsburg preferred Bad Schinznach . Later he was a member of the administrative chamber of the newly founded canton of Aargau . Johann Anton's sons Samuel Abraham and Albert helped Renner to become captains in the Imperial and Royal Army. He made Samuel Abraham his main heir.

Renner had hoped to be able to spend old age with his half-sister Marianne (1747–1823), but in 1783 she married the silk ribbon manufacturer and later Senator of the Helvetic Republic Johann Rudolf Meyer von Aarau .

literature

Markus Lutz : Nekrolog of memorable Swiss from the eighteenth century. Aarau 1812, p. 432 f.
( Franz Graeffer / Johann Jakob Czikann :) Austrian National Encyclopedia. Volume 4, Vienna 1836, p. 375, Volume 6, Vienna 1837, p. 586.
Second reader, for the middle grades of Bernese schools, edited at the event of the education department. Bern 1846, p. 75 f. ( How a Nidau general becomes. )
Constantin von Wurzbach : Renner, Sigmund Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1873, p. 295 ( digitized version ).
Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen : General Sigmund Freiherr von Renner. In: Berner Heimat, Sunday supplement to Berner Tagblatt and Bauernzeitung, 1893, pp. 308–310.
The same: Sigmund von Renner 1727–1800. In: Collection of Bernischer Biographien, 3rd volume, 1st delivery, Bern 1896, pp. 13-18.

References and comments

^ First member of the twelve-person council, deputy to the governor.
^ Franz Ludwig Haller: Life of Mr. Robert Scipio von Lentulus, former Lieutenant General in Königl. Prussian services. Bern 1787, p. 95 f.
↑ Jakob Keller: Joseph the Second Swiss Journey. In: Taschenbuch der Historischen Gesellschaft des Kantons Aargau, 3/1896, pp. 69–101, here: pp. 75–77.
↑ Oskar Criste: Wars under Emperor Josef II. Vienna 1904, p.264.
↑ After the fall of the Austrian Netherlands , the local commander Feldzeugmeister Richard Graf d'Alton corresponded with Renner in 1789/90. ( Mémoires pour servir à la justification de feu Son Excellence le général comte d'Alton, et à l'histoire secrette de la révolution belgique. 2nd edition, 1st volume, without location 1791, pp. 302–312, 392 f. )
↑ Compare Renner's letters to Marianne Meyer, Burgerbibliothek Bern , Mss. H. H. XIX 72.

personal data
SURNAME	Renner, Sigmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Renner, Sigmund; Renner, Sigmund Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	imperial-royal general of Swiss origin
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nidau
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1800
Place of death	Neuwaldegg

[1] First member of the twelve-person council, deputy to the governor.

[2] Franz Ludwig Haller: Life of Mr. Robert Scipio von Lentulus, former Lieutenant General in Königl. Prussian services. Bern 1787, p. 95 f.

[3] Jakob Keller: Joseph the Second Swiss Journey. In: Taschenbuch der Historischen Gesellschaft des Kantons Aargau, 3/1896, pp. 69–101, here: pp. 75–77.

[4] Oskar Criste: Wars under Emperor Josef II. Vienna 1904, p.264.

[5] After the fall of the Austrian Netherlands , the local commander Feldzeugmeister Richard Graf d'Alton corresponded with Renner in 1789/90. ( Mémoires pour servir à la justification de feu Son Excellence le général comte d'Alton, et à l'histoire secrette de la révolution belgique. 2nd edition, 1st volume, without location 1791, pp. 302–312, 392 f. )

[6] Compare Renner's letters to Marianne Meyer, Burgerbibliothek Bern , Mss. H. H. XIX 72.