Arpád Albert ''Graf und Freiherr von'' Bothmer zu Schwegerhoff (17 September 1858 – 3 July 1938)
Biography
Schwegerhoff was born in
Szőlősardó
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to Carl Alexander Friedrich ''Graf und Freiherr von'' Bothmer zu Schwegerhoff and Rosa von Szabó de Sepsi-Szent-György. His father was born in
Eickhoff, the family estate. He was one of six children. He married Helene Marie Isidora von Pilaszanovits in Budapest,
Hungary
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on 15 March 1890. They had four children.
Military career
Schwegerhoff was
k.u.k.
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Major General, Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown III Class, owner of military merit and the war medal etc. He was appointed a
lieutenant
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in 1879 to k.k. Infantry Regiment No. 67 and took part in 1882 to defeat the uprising in
Herzegovina
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as Kompagnieoffizer (''company officer''). In 1889, as a lieutenant on the Royal-Honvéd infanterie (''Royal Hungarian Military''), he translated and then acted from 1908 to 1911 as a
colonel
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and commander of the Hungarian Royal Gyulaer 2nd - Honvéd Infantry Regiment. For his merits as a military commander he was awarded
The Order of the Iron Crown III Class in 1910. From November 1911, Major General Schwegerhoff was the Commander of the Royal Hungarian 75th Honvéd Infantry Brigade in
Kolozsvár
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.
He died in
Duna-Almás on 3 July 1938.
See also
*
Military of Hungary
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References
* ''Die Familie von Bothmer'' by Dr. Hermann von Bothmer
* Interview with
George Criser Graf und Freiherr von Bothmer zu Schwegerhoff
* ''Der Oesterreichische-Kaiserliche Orden Der Eisernen Krone und Seine Mitglieder'' - Wien 1912
Austro-Hungarian generals
Hungarian nobility
People from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
1858 births
1938 deaths
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