Franz Xaver Freiherr von Auffenberg (1744 – 23 December 1815) was an Austrian general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

[1] For him the War of the First Coalition began in 1793 with the Austrian Netherlands campaign.

On 7 March 1799 he was beaten on the Luziensteig by André Masséna and his force and he was captured the following day when he withdrew to Chur.

He was freed after the Treaty of Lunéville and rejoined the Austrian army, commanding a force of 5,500 men as a Feldmarschallleutnant during the War of the Third Coalition.

At Wertingen on 8 October 1805 he was beaten by French troops under Joachim Murat.