Christoph von Lattermann

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Christoph Freiherr von Lattermann (14 July 1753 – 5 October 1835) was an Austrian field marshal. He was born in Olomouc, the son of a senior officer, and joined the Imperial army as a cadet at 13. After ten years he became a captain and made a name in the Bavarian War of Succession. As a major leading a pontoon battalion at the Siege of Belgrade in 1789, he built five bridges over the Danube and Sava under difficult conditions. He fought on the Rhine in 1793, became a colonel in 1794, and commanded Infantry Regiment No. 3. In 1797 he commanded a brigade in Italy as a major general. He earned the Knight’s Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa on 7 July 1799 for Verona. Under General Melas, he led a division at the Battle of Genola on 4 November 1799. He was badly wounded at Marengo in June 1800 and could not continue field service. In 1805 he retired from active service as a Feldmarschall-Leutnant, but later served as interim commander of Bohemia and, in 1809, of the Croatian Military Frontier. He joined the Hofkriegsrat and the Geheimrat. In 1813 he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister and led Austrian forces into the French Illyrian Provinces, becoming civil and military governor of Austrian Illyria. He later headed the military appellate court (1814, 1818–1833) and served as commanding general in Veneto. In 1826 he became Lieutenant Captain of the Archduke’s Life Guard, and in 1833 he retired as a Field Marshal. He died in Vienna in 1835.