He served as an officer of the Swabian Circle in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire.
[2] In 1767 he became Hauptmann[3] and he took part in campaigns of the wars from 1793 to 1796 at the River Rhine and in 1799 in Northern Italy, where he was wounded in the battle of Novi Ligure.
[4] Meanwhile, he was advanced to Secondmajor in 1786 and to Premiermajor in 1793, while serving in the 1st Kreis-Infanterie-Regiment of Graf Friedrich zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen.
In 1813 he was promoted to Lieutenant General and divisional commander,[3] and in 1814 he supervised the deployment of the Bavarian reserve army.
[4] In 1821 he became an honorary follow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[5] and in 1829 he became chief of the 2nd section of the War Ministry.