Georg Eisfeld (1682-) was a general of the Holy Roman Empire and a veteran of their wars against the Ottoman Empire and Kingdom of France.
Biography[]
Eisfeld was born in the Holy Roman Empire, and was told by his parents prejudice against the Turks from a young age. Because of his contempt for the Turk, he made an excellent commander during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars of the 1690s in Hungary. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the army and fought in the Battle of Zenta and the following battles for Hungary and Croatia. Eisfeld was promoted to become a General in 1704 at the age of twenty-two as one of the commanders in Brussels in the newly-acquired Austrian Netherlands along with many other Turkish War veterans, fighting in the War of the Spanish Succession. He gained fame for his capture of Cologne in Summer 1706, knocking Westphalia out of the semi-separated Austro-Westphalian War of 1706. He became Governor of Cologne for Austria following its conquest.