Albert von Margutti

Albert von Margutti in 1902

Albert Alexander Vinzenz Freiherr von Margutti (born November 28, 1869 in Fiume, today's Rijeka ; † January 3, 1940 in Vienna ) was a general in the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army and a writer.

Albert Margutti was born as the son of the Trieste shipbuilding chief engineer Henrico Margutti and his wife Carla Margutti (née Gallo) in the service of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He attended the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy in Vienna, which he left with the rank of lieutenant. In 1891 he was promoted to first lieutenant, 1892-1894 he attended the Austro-Hungarian War School in Vienna and was assigned to the General Staff Corps from 1895-1896 . In 1896 he received his captain's license and from 1898 returned to the General Staff Corps. From 1900 he became an orderly officer .

In 1906 he became a wing adjuster of Eduard Graf Paar , the adjudicant general of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1910 he was raised to the nobility, in 1911 to colonel and in 1915 to major general. He remained in direct service for the emperor until his death in 1916. In 1917 he was promoted to the rank of baron and appointed deputy director of the war archive. In 1918 he was appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal . After the end of the war, he opted for Italy, which meant that neither the Austrian republic nor Italy wanted to pay for his provisions. With his memories of Emperor Franz Joseph, written after the end of the First World War, he opened an important, if not always completely correct, historical source both about the personal biography of the emperor in his later years and about the time before and during the First World War. The emperor is portrayed as the tireless, conscientious first official of his empire, at the same time the increasing dependence of the kuk empire on the German empire is portrayed.

Albert von Margutti finally died in Vienna in 1940 at the beginning of the Second World War. He found his final resting place in the Gersthofer Friedhof in the 18th district of Währing in Vienna.

Austrian military awards (as of December 31, 1918)

• Military Jubilee Cross 1908
• Military Jubilee Medal 1898
• Official badge for officers III. class
• Bronze Military Merit Medal
• Military Merit Cross III. class
• Franz Joseph Cross
• Order of the Iron Crown Knight III. class
• Order of Leopold Knight's Cross
• Order of the Iron Crown Knight II class, war decoration

Works

• The decision-seeking defense ; Organ of military science Ver., Vol. 54, Vienna 1897;
• Representation of the warrior. Events in Italy in 1866 ; Seidel, Vienna 1897;
• The Turkish-Greek Conflikt 1897, its history and its execution in the youngest europ. Wars , 1898;
• The reconquest of Sudan 1896–98 , in: Streffleur, vol. 76, 1899, vol. 2;
• The domination of the sea in its reaction to the land operations of the great war ; Vienna & Leipzig 1900;
• K. Franz Joseph I. and his court, ed. by J. Schneider ; 1919;
• From old K. Personal memories of K. Franz Joseph I .; 1921, (2nd edition: K. Franz Joseph. Personal memories , 1924)

literature

• Stephan Verosta :  Margutti Albert Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 85 f. (Direct links on p. 85 , p. 86 ).