Adam Albert von Neipperg

Adam Albert von Neipperg
Adam Albert, Count von Neipperg
Born8 April 1775 (1775-04-08)
Vienna, Archduchy of Austria
Died22 February 1829 (1829-02-23) (aged 53)
Parma, Duchy of Parma
Allegiance Austrian Empire
BranchCavalry
Years of service 1791–1829
Rank Feldmarschall-Leutnant and 2nd Colonel-Proprietor of the 3rd Hussar Regiment
Battles / wars
Awards Tyrolean Silver Medal of Honor (1798)

Order of Maria Theresa (1801)
Order of the Légion d'Honneur (1810)
Order of the Sword (1812)
Order of St. George (1813)
Order of St. Anna (1813)
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus (1814)
Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit (1815)
Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George (1816)

Order of Leopold (1825)
Other work Prime Minister and Ehren-Kavalier to Duchess Maria Luigia 1821–1829

Adam Albert, Count von Neipperg (8 April 1775 – 22 February 1829) was an Austrian general and statesman. He was the son of a diplomat famous for inventing a letter-copying machine, and the grandson of Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg. His second wife, Empress Marie-Louise, was the widow of Napoleon and a daughter of Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor and founding Emperor of the Austrian Empire.

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