Egon Lauppert

Egon Lauppert (born May 9, 1879 in Agram, today's Zagreb , † December 20, 1955 in Vienna ; until 1919 as Lauppert von Peharnik ), was an Austrian officer (major general) and journalist .

Life

Lauppert was born in Agram as the son of Colonel Nikolaus Lauppert von Peharnik and the Prussian landowner's daughter Helene (née von Winning). He completed his military training as the second class from 1897 to 1900 at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . Retired as a lieutenant in the 4th Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger, he went to the Austro-Hungarian War School in 1903 and, after successful completion, was assigned to the General Staff Corps in 1905.

During the First World War he was active in various general staff functions and in 1916 became deputy military representative in Constantinople . After the war he was employed in the Austrian war archive . After studying at the University of Vienna and the Sorbonne , he received his doctorate in 1923. phil. In 1926 he took over the publisher's position and editor-in-chief of the Österreichische Wehrzeitung and developed it into a leading organ. Lauppert was co-initiator of the hero monument in the outer castle gate and vice-president of the erection committee.

Lauppert was married to the diplomatic daughter Frieda Van der Does de Willebois (born July 6, 1873) since 1922 . After a long suffering he died in Vienna in 1955 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Nobility Repeal Act of April 3, 1919.
2. ^ Egon von Lauppert, On the question of the supreme command among the allies in the summer and autumn of 1813; Vienna
3. ^ Oskar Regele , obituary Egon von Lauppert in Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 10 , Vienna 1957, online
4. ↑ In memory of the old army. In:  Oesterreichische Kronen-Zeitung. Illustrirtes Tagblatt / Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung / Wiener Kronen-Zeitung , June 20, 1933, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).