Hess, Heinrich Freiherr von#

b. Vienna, March 17, 1788, d. Vienna, April 13, 1870, Field Marshal. From 1805 officer, 1839-1860 led the quartermaster unit and in 1844 became the holder of the infantry regiment 49. Leading positions during the Italian campaigns of 1848/49, against Prussia in 1850, in the Crimean War 1854/55 and during the campaign of 1859. In 1860 captain of the trabant lifeguards and of the Hofburg guard, 1861 member of the upper chamber of the Reichsrat, wrote papers on military science.

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