Vinzenz Pürcker of Pürkhain

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Vinzenz Pürcker of Pürkhain

Vincent Baron Pürcker of Pürkhain (* 11. November 1820 in Graz ; † 13. May 1901 ) was an imperial Privy Councilor , Feldzeugmeister and owner of the Infantry Regiment 25th.

biography

Years of development

Autograph Pürcker von Pürkhain

Vinzenz, son of the major general (July 18, 1848) of the same first name, who on December 7, 1844 with the predicate "Edler von Pürkhain" had been raised to the hereditary-Austrian nobility, joined Infantry Regiment No. 13 in 1835 and received his military training in the Graz cadet company. It was in 1840 lieutenant and in 1847 Lieutenant . Assigned to the General Staff in 1847, he made already Anno 1848 Captain transported the Italian campaign of 1848-49 with, became on 24 February 1852 Major and came as Mappierungs sub-director to Hungary in 1853 to Quartermaster General Staff.

Battle of Custozza 1866
North camp near Mostar during the Bosnian campaign in 1878

In high offices

In January 1857 he was appointed chief of staff at the 10th Army Command, where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 28, 1857 . He held this office until April 1859, when he was promoted to colonel and regimental commander of the line infantry regiment Maximilian Freiherr von Wimpfen No. 13 and sous-chief of the general staff of the 4th Army in Verona .

He took part in the campaign of 1866 as a colonel and head of the operations office of the Southern Army. Here he made a great contribution as head of the operations office for the preparation of the operation plan for Custozza . and was promoted to major general only two days after the battle on July 26, 1866 (rank of July 10th of the year) in addition to the rank tour . Previously, in recognition of his outstanding achievements at the Battle of Custozza and afterwards, Emperor Franz Joseph I awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Leopold Order on July 19, 1866, and he also received the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus (approval August 10, 1867) as well as the commander's cross 1st class of the royal Saxon order of Albrecht with the war decoration. (Approval November 24, 1866) After the war, Pürcker became head of the Operations Chancellery at the Army High Command on October 1, 1866, and from January 21, 1868 he was head of the 5th Department of the War Ministry. On January 23, 1869 he went to Krakow as a brigadier with the 12th Troop Division Freiherr von Piret , took command of the 28th Infantry Troop Division in Ljubljana in 1871 and was appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal on April 29, 1872 .

After the general was assigned to the General Command in Agram in 1876 , he played a key role in the administrative work for the dissolution of the military border in the following years. He then became Colonel of the Hungarian Infantry Regiment No. 25 and on the occasion of the occupation of Bosnia in the same year he was decorated with the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class. A year later, the noble von Pürcker received the dignity of a real secret council and was elevated to the status of hereditary-Austrian baron.

The widely decorated officer was honored with the title of Feldzeugmeister on June 1, 1881 and retired with the award of the Commander's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Leopold Order with the war decoration of the Knight's Cross.

After the emperor's cabinet office had already congratulated the general on his eightieth birthday, his high standing at court was confirmed again when Archduke Friedrich presented him with a war award from his former army commander Archduke Albrecht , which he had bequeathed to him in his will.

Awards (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klagenfurter Zeitung No. 102, from Sunday, December 22, 1844, p. 408
  2. ↑ a b August Dub: "Oesterreichische Militär-Almanach für 1853", printed and published by Leopold Sommer, Vienna 1853, p. 174
  3. ↑ Military newspaper No. 26, of Wednesday, April 1, 1857, Volume X, p. 207
  4. ^ Kuk Army
  5. ↑ a b ÖBL Pürcker
  6. ^ A b c Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 145
  7. ↑ a b Grazer Tagblatt No. 132, from Tuesday, May 14, 1901, p. 3
  8. ↑ Military Gazette No. 59, of Wednesday, July 25, 1866, XIX. Volume, p. 494
  9. ^ State manual for the Free State of Saxony, printing and commissioning by C. Heinrich, Dresden 1888, p. 132
  10. ^ V. Streffleur: "Österreichischemilische Zeitschrift", Volume VII., Volume 4, Druck- und Kommissionsverlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1866, p. 51
  11. ↑ Military newspaper No. 9, of Wednesday, January 29, 1868, p. 66
  12. ↑ V. Streffleur (Ed.): "Österreichischemilische Zeitschrift", Volume X, Volume 1, printed by R. von Waldheim, Vienna 1869, Personnel Changes, p. 1
  13. ↑ Imperial and Royal Military Schematism for 1883, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, 1883, p. 316
  14. ↑ Handbook of the Highest Court State for the year 1894, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1894, p. 300
  15. ↑ Military newspaper No. 18, from Wednesday, May 22, 1901, 56th volume, p. 141
personal data
SURNAME Pürkhain, Vinzenz Pürcker von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pürkhain, Vinzenz Freiherr Pürcker von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1901
Place of death Graz