Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs 46. (1998)
LUND, Erik: The generation of 1683: Habsburg General Officers and the military technical Corps, 1686–1723
The Generation of 1683 highest ranks than their regular colleagues. If, as the historiography suggests, this predates parallel developments in France, the Austro-Imperial army’s practice was the very reverse of the obscurantism and backwardness usually associated with it. APPENDIX: The Generallisten, 1686-1723 (Generals Promoted to the rank of Colonel, or Major General between 1686 and 1723 who subsequently reached the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal or higher). Notes: I) Service records are not always complete due to transcribing errors, but the vast majority of apparently incomplete records below represent officers entering Imperial service who already held senior ranks which were recognised on receipt of Imperial commission. II) Ordering generally follows that of the Generallisten, which is only partially alphabetised. Ill) The Generallisten is a German language administrative document. Although the compilers often rendered names and titles into the native tongue of the bearer, this was not always possible. Hungarian and Irish names obviously presented special difficulties, and the former in particular have been corrected below. IV) Courtesy promotions of individuals like the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Tilly d’Tserclaes have been omitted. V) Parenthetical information in the entries is reproduced from the original. Abbreviations: predicates v(on), u(nd), z(u). biographical b(om), d(ied), succeeded, ruling princes only). Rank abbreviations are from German: Ob is colonel [Obrist/Oberst]; GWM is Major General [Generalfeldwachtmeister]; FML is Lieutenant Field Marshal [Feldmarschalleutnant]; “GdC/FZM“ denotes an officer who reached the equivalent service grades of either General of Cavalry [General der Ca- vallerie] , or Feldzeugmeister; FM is Field Marshal. These titles are frequently but not invariably encountered with the prefix “General.“ The title “General-Lieutenant“ occasionally encountered below is an office rather than a rank, and corresponds to “Generalissimus“. Don Juan Conde di Ahumada y Cardenas Anton Graf Alcaudete Benedetto Marchese Ali Gundacker Ludwig Josef Graf v. Althann Georg Friedrich Markgraf z. Brandenburg- Anspach 1716 FML. 1723 GWM 1733 FML 1721 GWM (?) FML 1708 GWM 1716 FML 1723 GdC 1741 FM 1678 b. 1699 GWM 1701 FML 1703 d. of wounds 203
