Wurmser, Dagobert#
b. Strasbourg (France), May 7, 1724, d. Vienna, Aug. 22, 1797, army commander (field marshal). Served at first in the French Army, joined the Austrian Army in 1762 and was particularly successful in the Bavarian War of Succession in 1779. In the first Coalition War against Napoleon, was commander-in-chief of the Austrian troops deployed at the Rhine; conquered the lines at Weissenburg in 1793 and Mannheim in 1795 but suffered defeat against Napoleon in Italy 1796-1997 (surrender at Mantua in Feb. 1797).
Literature#
A. v. Vivenot, Thugut, Clerfait und W., 1869.