Valentin von Siebeneicher

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Major General Valentin Edler von Siebeneicher

Valentin Edler von Siebeneicher (born February 13, 1783 in Kratzau , † July 7, 1861 in Marburg an der Drau ) was an Austrian major general .

Life

The son of a shoemaker trained with his brother-in-law before joining the Hungarian Insurrection Battalion Erdödy on December 1, 1800, where he served as a corporal . On November 9, 1802, he joined the then 2nd Artillery Regiment as a sub-gunner in imperial service and was transferred to the Bombardier Corps on December 9, 1803. He took part in the campaigns against France and distinguished himself not only in the Napoleonic Wars, among others at Austerlitz and in the Battle of Leipzig , but also in the blockade of Besançon and in the campaign against the Kingdom of Naples in 1821 with the capture of his capital . As early as 1809, Siebeneicher had been promoted to ensign on the battlefield as a battery commandant because of voluntary action with half a battery at Montebello and special bravery by the eyewitness General Ignaz Graf Gyulay on the battlefield and acquired the officer’s license on April 1, 1815.

In 1828 he became a captain in the 4th artillery regiment, in 1841 a major in the kk infantry regiment of Ferdinand IV of Toscana , where he distinguished himself in the battles at Belvedere and next to Monte Croce . In 1848 he was appointed lieutenant colonel and commander of the garrison artillery district of Inner Austria, then artillery armament director in Mantua , a strategic part of the Austrian fortress quadrilateral , and in 1849 colonel . On April 21, 1850 he was promoted to major general and artillery inspector in Verona , then in Bohemia .

The major general retired on March 4, 1853 and spent his old age in Marburg.

family

He had been married to Ernestine von Thuys since 1826 and had two daughters and five sons. The latter also entered the military, with only son Adolph pursuing the military career.

On January 29, 1836, Siebeneicher, who had managed to rise from a simple shoemaker's apprentice to general, was raised to the hereditary nobility by the highest resolution of Emperor Ferdinand I with "Edler von".

literature

  • Georg Freiherr von Frölichsthal: The nobility of the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Degener-Verlag, Hannover 2008.
  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907.
  • J. Hirtenfeld: Austrian military calendar. Vienna 1862, XIII. Vintage.
  • Peter Frank-Döfering: Nobility Lexicon of the Austrian Empire 1804-1918. Herden publishing house, Vienna 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin Společnosti přátel historie města Chrastavy (Czech; PDF file; 512 kB)
  2. ^ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Volume: 34, 1877, p. 226.
  3. ↑ Heribert Sturm: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries. Volume 2, Collegium Carolinum, Prague 2003, pp. 55f.
  4. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generality 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 172.
  5. ↑ J. Hirtenfeld: Austrian military calendar. Vienna 1862, XIII. Vintage.
  6. ↑ Gratzer newspaper. 9 July 1861, No. 110.
  7. ^ Austrian military magazine. Issues 1–3, printing and publishing house Leopold Sommer, Vienna 1849, p. 118.
  8. ↑ Peter Frank-Döfering: Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804-1918. Herden Verlag, Vienna 1989, p. 508 (margin no. 8699).
personal data
SURNAME Siebeneicher, Valentin von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siebeneicher, Valentin Edler from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian major general
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Scratching
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1861
Place of death Marburg on the Drau