Egon Pflügl

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Egon Pflügl (born September 9, 1869 in Linz , † June 18, 1960 in Vienna ), until 1919 Egon Edler von Pflügl , was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and undersecretary of the Foreign Office in 1918/19.

Life

Pflügl, a member of a family that had been ennobled since 1818, studied law at the University of Vienna from 1887 to 1892 . In 1893 he joined the kuk foreign service and in 1895 was assigned to the consulate in Constantinople . His next posts were Saloniki , Chania on Crete, Genoa , 1898 to 1900 the mission in the Montenegrin capital Cetinje , again Chania, Varna , Turnu Severin , Rustschuk , Frankfurt am Main , St. Gallen and Naples - 1913 until the Italian entry into the war First World War in May 1915.

In July 1915 he switched to the military as an interpreter. A mission in the main customer base in Feldkirch was followed by service in the 18th Infantry Troop Command as a reserve captain. At the beginning of 1918, Pflügl became a liaison officer in the Orient Department of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry on the Southwest Front .

From November 5, 1918 to October 17, 1919, Pflügl was Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the state governments Renner I and Renner II for the Christian Social Party . Like his Greater German colleague Leopold Waber , he was assigned the role of guardian for the Social Democratic State Secretary. According to Egon Berger-Waldenegg, however , he was not up to the personality of Foreign Minister Otto Bauer and led a “political shadowy existence” in office.

Pflügl then worked again as envoy, was also a political writer and board member of Danubia AG for gas works, lighting and measuring equipment . He served the Bavarian right on behalf of Otto Pittinger from 1922 as a liaison to Austrian industrialists. As the leader of a group with ties to the Heimwehr , he wrote, sometimes under aliases, to the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria from 1924 to 1936 and developed fantastic plans for a unification of Bavaria and Austria under the Wittelsbach monarch. Since 1932 he worked for the NSDAP in the intelligence service, then joined the party in February 1937 ( membership number 6,334,834) - allegedly he left in 1944.

After 1950 he was chairman of the committee for national unification in the atmosphere of the Soviet occupation- sponsored National League of the former SS Obersturmführer and Eastern spy Adolf Slavik . Allegedly, through his cooperation, Pflügl wanted to get his son released from Soviet captivity.

Fonts

  • (Under the pseudonym Montanus) The national development of Tyrol in the last decades. Germanness in the fight against Italian expansionist efforts. Tyrolia, Vienna / Innsbruck / Munich 1918.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Estate of the Pflügl family, Upper Austrian Provincial Archives.
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Agstner : Handbook of the Austrian Foreign Service. Volume 1: 1918-1938. Headquarters, embassies and consulates. Lit, Vienna / Münster 2015, ISBN 3-643-506-856 , p. 422 .
  3. ↑ Georg Christoph Berger Waldenegg (ed.), Egon Berger von Waldenegg, Heinrich Berger von Waldenegg: Biography in the mirror. The memoirs of two generations. Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98876-0 , p. 343.
  4. ^ Ludger Rape: The Austrian Home Guard and the Bavarian Right 1920–1923. Publication by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement, Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-203-50645-9 , p. 282.
  5. ^ Dieter J. Weiss: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869–1955). A political biography. Pustet, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 3-7917-2047-3 , p. 209.
  6. ↑ Lothar Höbelt (Ed.): Rise and Fall of the VdU. Letters and minutes from private estates 1948–1955. Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79634-3 , p. 216 .
personal data
SURNAME Pflügl, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflügl, Egon Edler from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian diplomat and Undersecretary of State at the Foreign Office 1918/19
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1960
Place of death Vienna