Franz Adam Karrer
Franz Adam Karrer | |
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Birth name | François Adam Karrer |
Other name(s) | Frantz Adam Karrer |
Born | 1666 Nov 22 |
Died | 1740 May 3 Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France |
Allegiance | France |
Years of service | 1686 – 1736 |
Rank | Brigadier |
Commands held | Swiss regiment de Karrer |
Spouse(s) |
Franz Adam Karrer (1666 – 1740) was a Swiss officer, brigadier in French service, and founder and first colonel-proprietor of the Swiss regiment de Karrer on 15 Dec 1719. He became a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis in 1709.[1]
Military career[]
Karrer became officer cadet in an independent company in French service in 1686 and was commissioned as an ensign in the Swiss regiment von Salis-Soglio in French service in 1691. From there he became a lieutenant in 1693, and captain-lieutenant in 1698. Also in 1698, he became commanding officer of a half-company, eventually becoming proprietor of a half-company 1709 and captain of grenadiers 1710. Karrer entered a capitulation with the King of France on 15 Dec 1719, raising a regiment of foot for French service, the Régiment de Karrer, becoming colonel in 1720, and brigadier in 1734. In 1736 he transferred the proprietorship of the regiment to his son .[1][2]
Personal life[]
Karrer was born in on 22 Nov 1666. He was married to before 1703, the daughter of a bailiff (chief court official) in Alsace. He died 3 May 1740 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Fankhauser, Andreas (28 October 2013). "Karrer, Franz Adam". Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). Bern.
- ^ Friedberg, Karl Franz Alois Matthias Müller von (1793). Chronologische Darstellung der eidgenössischen Truppenüberlassungen an auswärtige Mächte (in German). Huber. p. 101.
Further reading[]
- B.F. de Zurlauben (1751). Histoire militaire des Suisses au service de la France 3. pp. 112-115, 502-505
- E. May (1788). Histoire militaire de la Suisse et celle des Suisses dans les différens services de l'Europe 6. pp. 280 f.
- P. Wirz (1862). Bürgergeschlechter der Stadt Solothurn 11, Ms., 1862, 59 (Kopie StASO)
- M. Rochat (1994). Geflammte Ordonnanzfahnen der ständigen Schweizer Linienregimenter in franz. Diensten von 1672 bis 1792. pp. 182-186
- 1672 births
- 1741 deaths
- People from Solothurn
- French military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
- French military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
- Swiss mercenaries
- Knights of the Order of Saint Louis