Edmund Entacher

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General Edmund Entacher at the New Year's reception of the diplomatic corps 2013, behind the adjutant of the Federal President Major General Gregor Keller

Edmund Entacher (born September 30, 1949 in Grossarl , Salzburg ) is a former Austrian general . From November 2007 until his recall in January 2011, he was Chief of the General Staff of the Federal Army and thus the highest-ranking officer in the Austrian armed forces . From November 7, 2011 until his retirement at the end of March 2013, he was again Chief of the General Staff of the Austrian Armed Forces.

Life

Military career

After his officer training at the Theresian Military Academy from 1971 to 1974, he held various functions in the Jägerbataillon 21 in Kufstein . From 1979 to 1982 he completed his training as a general staff officer and was then chief instructor for tactics, head of the institute for officer training (institute 1) and chief of staff at the Theresian Military Academy. In 1992 he was appointed commander of the 3rd Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Mautern an der Donau . He headed several international large-scale exercises and was in command of the Land Forces Command from 2002, until this was merged with the International Operations Command to form the Armed Forces Command in 2005 . From 2006 he was the militia commissioner and from October 1, 2007 initially entrusted chief of the general staff with effect from February 1, 2008. As such, he still holds the rank of general today .

Entacher is a member of the SPÖ . His appointment by the Social Democratic Defense Minister Darabos as chief of staff was welcomed by the parliamentary parties FPÖ and BZÖ , criticized by the Greens and the coalition partner ÖVP as a "change of color".

Deposition

After differences over a planned reform of the armed forces and criticism expressed in the media of the planned abolition of general conscription by Darabos - which the minister himself had described as the only useful model for Austria until recently - Entacher was on January 24, 2011 from Defense minister recalled, later transferred to the command support center and replaced on an interim basis by his previous deputy Lieutenant General Othmar Commenda . Entacher's recall was often seen as an arbitrary action by Darabos. In the meantime, Entacher took legal action against his recall and received support from Federal President Heinz Fischer , the Commander in Chief of the Federal Army. Fritz Neugebauer, chairman of the public service union , also promised him legal help. A written notice of dismissal was not sent to Entacher until the end of August 2011, several months late.

On November 7, 2011, it became known that the Appeals Committee at the Federal Chancellery had canceled the Ministry of Defense's transfer notice without replacement. The minister then announced that he would deal with General Entacher by means of written instructions. This warned of an act of revenge:

“An act of revenge against me would be pointless, my whereabouts have an end. (Until 2013, note) I would otherwise only give them the cucumber in this short time, they would regret it bitterly. "

- General Edmund Entacher : The press

At the end of March 2013, Entacher retired.

Private

Entacher is widowed and has two children.

Awards and decorations (extract)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otmar Lahodynsky: "We stand in front of the cliff": Chief of Staff Edmund Entacher in an interview. profile, January 22, 2011, accessed June 30, 2012
  2. ↑ Otmar Lahodynsky: "We stand in front of the cliff": Chief of Staff Edmund Entacher in an interview. profil , January 22, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2011 : “Why should I introduce a new system that is full of risks and from which there is no turning back? No sensible person would do that. "
  3. ↑ derstandard.at of March 1, 2011. Retrieved on July 4, 2013 .
  4. ^ DiePresse.com: Darabos' Trench Warfare: Resistance from within our own ranks, January 24, 2011
  5. ^ DiePresse.com: "Stalinist": Officers call on Darabos to resign, January 23, 2011
  6. ↑ Kurier : kurier.at: Fischer helps General against Darabos ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Neugebauer: Legal assistance for Entacher on Ö1 from January 28, 2011, accessed on January 29, 2011
  8. ↑ Courier : Entacher: Finally notification from Darabos , December 5, 2011 (accessed December 5, 2013)
  9. ^ Notice canceled without replacement on ORF.at, 7 November 2011
  10. ↑ APA / burg: Disgrace for Darabos: Entacher wins proceedings. derStandard.at, November 7, 2011, accessed on November 7, 2011 : “The removal of Chief of Staff Edmund Entacher by Defense Minister Norbert Darabos (SPÖ) was illegal. The Appeals Commission at the Federal Chancellery has repealed the decision of the Defense Ministry's transfer without replacement. "
  11. ↑ red .: Bankruptcy for Darabos: General Entacher returns. Die Presse , November 7, 2011, accessed on November 7, 2011 : “An appeal committee has overturned the notice of removal. Entacher will be back in action as chief of staff from tomorrow. Before that he wants to "celebrate a bit". "
  12. ↑ Red general triumphs over red minister. Wiener Zeitung , November 7, 2011, accessed on November 7, 2011 : "This means that the transfer of General Entacher is" legally not possible "."
  13. ^ Conrad Seidl, Nina Weißensteiner: By instruction in the administrative jungle. Der Standard , November 9, 2011, accessed on November 12, 2011 : "Darabos now wants to lead his ministry through written instructions - that can be difficult: he can only give instructions to officials himself"
  14. ↑ Rainer Nowak: Entacher: You would bitterly regret an act of revenge. Die Presse , November 13, 2011, accessed November 12, 2011 .
  15. ↑ Entacher: "Freedom of expression was helped to victory" in Upper Austria from November 8, 2011, accessed on September 29, 2012
  16. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)
  17. ↑ http://www.bundesheer.at/cms/artikel.php?ID=5853 Chief of Staff Entacher receives high US award Article www.bundesheer.at from November 25, 2011
  18. ↑ Darabos resigns his army chief in the OÖ Nachrichten of January 25, 2011
  19. ↑ France honors General Entacher on the website of the Austrian Armed Forces, accessed on March 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Entacher, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military, chief of the general staff
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossarl , Salzburg