Mack von Leiberich, Karl, Freiherr

Mack von Leiberich, Karl, Freiherr

▪ Austrian general
born Aug. 25, 1752, Nenslingen, Bavaria
died Oct. 22, 1828, Sankt Pölten, Austria

      Austrian soldier, commander of the defeated forces at the Napoleonic battles of Ulm and Austerlitz.

      In 1770 he joined an Austrian cavalry regiment, becoming an officer seven years later. He served in the brief War of the Bavarian Succession; in 1778 he was promoted to first lieutenant and in 1785 ennobled under the name of Mack von Leiberich. Against the French in the Revolutionary wars he fought first in the Netherlands and, after becoming lieutenant field marshal (1797), accepted command of the Neopolitan army in 1798. Forced to take refuge from his own men, he escaped to the French camp and was sent as a prisoner of war to Paris, whence he escaped in disguise two years later.

      Mack was not employed for some years but in 1804 was made quartermaster-general of the army, with instructions to prepare for a war with France. He attempted hastily to reform the army, and in 1805 he became the real commander (under titular commander-in-chief Archduke Ferdinand) of the army that opposed Napoleon in Bavaria, but his position was ill-defined and his authority treated with slight respect by his colleagues. His miscalculations and lack of control contributed to the disastrous Austrian defeats at Ulm, where he was surrounded and forced to surrender at least 50,000 men (October 15), and then at Austerlitz (December 2), the scene of one of Napoleon's greatest victories.

      After Austerlitz, Mack was tried by a court-martial, sitting from February 1806 to June 1807, and sentenced to be deprived of his rank, his regiment, and the order of Maria Theresa, and to be imprisoned for two years. He was released in 1808, and, in 1819, when the ultimate victory of the allies had obliterated the memory of earlier disasters, he was reinstated in the army as lieutenant field marshal and a member of the order of Maria Theresa.

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