Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria -Este ( born April 25, 1781 Milan, † November 5, 1850 at Schloss Ebenzweier in Altmünster ) was an Austrian field marshal and governor general of Galicia and Transylvania.
Life
Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Este was born as the second son of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Anton Joseph and Maria Beatrice d' Este on April 25, 1781 in Milan. He was the brother of Duke Francis IV of Modena ( † 1846). In 1799, after having attended the Military Academy at Wiener Neustadt, he joined the army and became Major General in 1800.
He was in the war against France ( 1805), the supreme command of the 3rd Austrian army corps was duly drawn up in Swabia, and, after the act annexed passed as Chief of General Staff Lieutenant-General Mack has been in his position at the Iller between Ulm and Günzburg, cut off was defeated by Marshal Ney at Günzburg on 9 October.
Ferdinand, however, escaped, while Mack capitulated in Ulm, fell over Geislingen and Oettingen with about 2000 cavalry to Bohemia, while infantry and heavy artillery of the pursuing cavalry of Murat at the Altmühltherme hands. Then he was given the command of the imperial forces in Bohemia, organized the militia, provided the Bavaria several happy meeting and covered the right wing of the great Confederate Army until the Battle of Austerlitz.
In 1809 he enlisted as a commander of the 7th Army Corps, with 36,000 men on the Pilicą the duchy of Warsaw, the Poles sought in vain for an uprising against Napoleon I. and Duke Friedrich August to move from Warsaw and learned at Raszyn stubborn resistance by Poniatowski, who gave him, however, left on April 22, Warsaw and the Austrians bypassed, while Ferdinand marched against Kalisch and Thorn attacked in vain.
The transition Dombrowski about the Bzury the Austrians were forced to evacuate on June 2, Warsaw and to leave even a part of Galicia with the Krakow moving up Poniatowski.
1815 Ferdinand took over the command of the Austrian reserve and went with two departments of the same across the Rhine, but without getting the opportunity to excel.
In 1816 he received the Commanding General in Hungary, 1830, the General and Zivilgouvernement in Galicia. 1835-1837 he was Gubernator of Transylvania.
In his difficult position in Lviv deceived by the Galician nobility and lulled into carelessness and surprised by the outbreak of the insurrection of Cracow in 1846, he resigned his post soon, since lived mostly in Italy and died on November 5, 1850 at Schloss Ebenzweier in Altmünster ( near Gmunden ). His heart was buried separately and is located in the Loreto chapel, Vienna St. Augustine's Church.