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Mar 17, 1799 Bremen, Germany Died on 12 Jul 1869 (aged 70)
Austrian fieldmarshal
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About Friedrich Zobel
- Thomas Friedrich Zobel von Giebelstadt und Darstadt (1799 – 12 July 1869) was an Austrian military officer. Zobel was born into a family of the lesser Austrian nobility.
- He studied in the military academy of Vienna and distinguished himself in the riots in Lombardy-Venetia of 1848.
- On 30 April 1849 he was appointed Major General, becoming the governor of the fortress of Verona, where there was one of the largest Austrian garrisons in northern Italy.
- On 12 May 1853 he was named a leutnant-feldmarschall in the Austrian army.
- He defended against the invasion of Lombardy-Venetia by a combined force from the Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont, and France, and fought in the battle of Palestro (1859, during the Italian Second War of Independence) as the Austrian commander, although the battle was lost.
- He retired from the military in 1864 and died in 1869.
