Árpád Tamásy from Fogaras

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Árpád Tamásy from Fogaras 1910

Árpád Tamásy von Fogaras , also Árpád Tamássy von Fagaras (born December 9, 1861 in Rupea ; † February 1, 1939 in Budapest ), was an Austro-Hungarian officer, most recently field military officer , section head in the Ministry of War , during the First World War division commander of the Przemyśl fortress , finally commander of the 4th Army Corps.

biography

Close combat at Fort Siedlicke on the occasion of the 1st siege of Przemysl
FZM Árpád Tamásy from Fogaras 1918

After successfully completing the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and the kuk war school (war academy) , he was employed as a staff officer in various posts. Until 1895 he was a captain, 1st class, in the General Staff Corps, then as a major in the 15th Corps in Sarajevo . In 1902 he was appointed to the rank of lieutenant colonel (1909 colonel ) by the emperor in the Reich Ministry of War (since 1911 kuk war ministry ), where he was section chief responsible for the 1st department as well as the 2nd St.-, 2nd W.- and 3rd R. Department was.

In the meantime, he was promoted to major general on November 1, 1910 (rank of November 12, 1910) and on November 1, 1913 (rank of November 11 of the same year) to field marshal lieutenant.

In September 1914 Tamásy was selected to command the 23rd Honvéd Infantry Division . Under the fortress commander of Przemyśl Infantry General Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten , he defended the city with the troops as a division commander. During the first siege of Przemyśl from September 16 to October 9, 1914, the 3rd Russian Army, led by General Radko Dimitriev, could still be repulsed, but the second time the defenders were defeated and capitulated on March 15, 1915. Kusmanek, Tamásy and almost 130,000 officers and soldiers were taken prisoners of war, which for all only ended at the beginning of 1918 as a result of the prerequisites of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty . The field marshal lieutenant was confirmed his appointment as Feldzeugmeister in absentia on August 1, 1917 (rank of August 13 of that year) on February 19, 1918.

He took over his honved division again for only one month, and then replaced FML Rudolf Krauss as commander of the 22nd Infantry Corps. On July 15, 1918, he finally replaced General of the Cavalry Alois Prince von Schönburg-Hartenstein as commander of the 4th Army Corps. In the battle of Vittorio Veneto , the front collapsed on his line, as the soldiers of his troops, which were mostly from Hungary, deserted en masse to answer the call for the return of the newly established Hungarian Parliament.

The highly decorated officer retired on January 1, 1919 and from then on lived in Budapest.

Austrian military awards (as of December 31, 1918)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quays. Royal Military schematic, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei 1895, pp. 114, 170
  2. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Volume 36, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei 1910, p. 92
  3. ↑ a b Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: “The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918”, Austrian State Archives 2007, p. 184
  4. ↑ a b http://www.oocities.org/veldes1/tamasy.html
personal data
SURNAME Tamásy from Fogaras, Árpád
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tamássy from Fagaras, Árpád
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Rupea
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1939
Place of death Budapest