Theodor Baillet de Latour

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Count Theodor Baillet de Latour
Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Count Theodor Baillet de Latour (born June 15, 1780 in Linz , † October 6, 1848 in Vienna ) was an Imperial and Royal Privy Councilor , treasurer , officer ( Feldzeugmeister ) and minister of war .

Life

The body of the lynched Minister of War is hung on a lantern

The son of the General of the Cavalry and President of the Court War Council Maximilian Graf Baillet von Latour (1737-1806) entered the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt at the age of seven , was translated into the Vienna Engineering Academy in 1795 and there completed his military education, to then begin his military career in an engineering corps, but he was soon entrusted with general staff duties.

In the wars up to 1815 the count found a wide range of occupations, for example in the coalition wars in 1797 with the fall of Kehl , in 1800 in the battle of Marengo and in Germany in 1805 in the battle of Ulm , where he was taken prisoner. Because of his courage and tactical skills during the Battle of Podubine in 1812, he was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order . In 1813 he took part in the battles of Dresden and Leipzig as a colonel and commander of infantry regiment No. 12 in the general staff of Field Marshal Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg and was promoted to major general on January 1, 1814. In 1814/15 he was chief of staff in the army of Crown Prince Wilhelm von Württemberg . In the peace years after the Congress of Vienna , the owner of regiments of artillery and infantry held numerous military leadership positions - including in Linz, Olomouc and Prague - and was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal and owner of the 28th Line Infantry Regiment in 1832 had been, representative of Archduke Johann as director of the Austrian genius in Vienna . In 1846 he became Feldzeugmeister. Since April 1848, as a staunch advocate of the conservatives, he was Minister of War in the constitutional government of Austria.

Latour wanted to support the troop movements of the Croatian nobleman and Austrian general Joseph Jellačić in 1848 and send him a battalion from Vienna to fight against the rebellious Hungarians . Insurgent sections of the Viennese population tried to prevent this and stormed the Imperial and Royal War Ministry Am Hof , where Latour was lynched and then hung from a street lamp. This approach was generalized by the insurgents in the October insurrection in Vienna by inventing the word "laternize" and threatening to apply it to other people.

The attack on October 6th led to the departure of the imperial court from Vienna and marked the beginning of the Vienna October Uprising .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts Baillet de Latour 1715

1719: In the blue shield a swelling golden sail, which hangs down from a transverse golden rod. A helmet rises on the count's crown from which the right-seeing head of an animal grows up with the neck. The helmet covers are blue and gold, and the shield is held by two outward-looking black eagles. Older lacquer prints, which are surrounded by flags and numerous fittings, result in the coat of arms, and so the same can be found, but without helmet decoration, in the coat of arms book of the Austrian monarchy (Volume IV, 48, Volume XVIII of the mentioned work gives the shield in Tab. 3 divided lengthways). On the right there are three (2 and 1) black poppy heads in silver on long stalks with two green leaves, on the left in blue a golden swelling sail hangs down from three golden rings on a golden rod. The shield is covered by a 7-pearl marquise crown.

The genealogical paperback of the count's houses assumes a golden, swelling sail in blue, which hangs down on five golden rings from a similar transverse rod.

Theodor Count von Latour 1834

Trivia

The songwriter duo Christoph and Lollo wrote a tax on the death of Theodor Baillet Count von Latour, which dealt with the events of October 6, 1848.

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Baillet von Latour  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl von Schönhals: “Memories of the kk Feldzeugmeister and Minister of War Theodor Grafen Baillet von Latour”, IA Kienreich, Graz 1849, p.
  2. ^ Joseph Andreas Goswin Aribo, Georg Maria Graf von Thürheim: "Memorial sheets from the war history of the KK oesterreichischen Army", bookstore for military literature, Vienna 1880, p. 358
  3. ^ Helmut Neuhaus:  Latour, Count Theodor Baillet de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 683 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , 2nd volume L – Z; Publishing house TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 15
  5. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Baillet de Latour, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baillet de Latour, Count Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Minister of War
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1848
Place of death Vienna