Egon von Waldstätten

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Egon Waldstätten (1922)

Arthur Johann Anton Maria Egon Freiherr von Waldstätten (born  April 21, 1875 in Fünfkirchen (Pécs) ; †  May 12, 1951 in Vienna ; from 1919 Arthur Johann Anton Maria Egon Waldstätten) was an Austrian officer and military writer who became a councilor after the war , then Austrian Council of State and 1939 major general ( character ) in the German Wehrmacht . He came from the von Waldstätten family .

biography

Egon Freiherr von Waldstätten (around 1905)

The son of Feldzeugmeister Georg von Waldstätten was released from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt as a lieutenant in the Eduard Graf Paar 2nd Dragoon Regiment in 1893 .

After serving in the troops and general staff, he was promoted to major in Dragoon Regiment No. 7 on August 1, 1914. On March 1, 1915, he was assigned to the infantry at his request, where he was assigned to the 82nd Infantry Regiment as a battalion commander and took part in the fighting on the Eastern Front until he was seriously wounded (leg amputation) on July 8, 1915. He has received several awards for his services in these fights, in particular for being promoted to lieutenant colonel (1915). In 1916 he was assigned to the war archive as head of department. At that time he was also the card partner of the emperor ( Karl I. ).

Promoted to kuk colonel on May 1, 1918 , he was also head of the enemy propaganda defense unit (FASt.) Of the army high command.

After the end of the First World War , Egon Waldstätten was taken over into the civil status of the War Archives and in 1924 - then already in the First Republic - retired with the title of court counselor. Subsequently, from 1926 he was a board member of the Reich Association of Main and Sub-Publishers of Tobacco Austria in Bruck an der Leitha , from 1928 in Vienna-Brigittenau , and from June 25, 1934 its president.

In 1937 Waldstätten became State Councilor of the Austrian corporate state . From 1938 he also held the office of chairman of the unit association of war victims.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1939 (as Theresa Knight) he was given the character of a major general in the German Wehrmacht .

Year badge "Freiherr von Waldstätten" of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt

As a commemoration, the 2015 decommissioned class of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt chose the name “Freiherr von Waldstätten”.

Erika, b. Freiin Pacher of Theinburg (1903)

family

Waldstätten was married to Julia Helene Maria Erika (born October 13, 1879 in Vienna; † November 27, 1960), daughter of Gustav Franz Justus Pacher von Theinburg and Barbara, born Freiin von Gagern a. d. Hornau house , married.

His great-granddaughter is the Austrian Nora Waldstätten (* 1981), who works as an actress (until 2016 under the stage name "Nora von Waldstätten").

Awards (selection)

Works

  • World War Tables 1914–1919 (multiple volumes): Synchronistic representation of the world war . Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1918.
  • Battle of Montello and Battle of Vittorio Veneto , 1918 MS. WKI / 13, published 1923.
  • 5th World Political Atlas , 1938.
  • The Battle of Lavrov 20. – 27. October 1914 . Kavallerie-Journal, April 1926, pp. 166-682.
  • The last equestrian battle in world history , Jaroslawice 1914 (with Maximilian Ritter von Hoen ). Amalthea, Zurich 1929.

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses S – Z , FB, 1905, 1941.
  • Johann Svoboda: The Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt 1838–1893 , Volume 2. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1897.
  • August v. Doerr: The Hayek von Waldstätten , separate print from the yearbook of the kais. heraldic society "Adler". Carl Gerolds Sohn printing works, Vienna 1914.
  • Carl Bardolff (ed.): The military Maria Theresa order. The Awards in World War 1914–1918 , 2nd edition, 1944.
  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel: Christian-class-authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938 , Vienna 1991.
  • Peter Broucek : A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaises von Horstenau . Böhlau, Graz 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d See Nobility Repeal Act of April 3, 1919 .
  2. ^ Johann Svoboda, The Theresianische Militär-Akademie zu Wiener-Neustadt and its pupils: 1838–1893 , 1st volume, 1897, p. 164.
  3. ↑ Peter Broucek: A General in the Twilight . Böhlau, Graz 1980, p. 441.
  4. ↑ Gaetano V. Cavallaro: The Beginning of Futility , Vol. 1, Xlibris Corporation 2009, p. 379.
  5. ^ Richard Georg Plaschka, Horst Haselsteiner: Nationalism, State Power, Resistance. Aspects of national and social development in East Central and Southeast Europe . Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, p. 271.
  6. ^ Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl : Protocols of the Council of Ministers of the First Republic, 1918-1938 , Volume 9, Part 5. Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 2001.
  7. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (ed.): Austria! and Front Heil! From the files of the General Secretariat of the Patriotic Front . Böhlau, Vienna 2005, p. 112.
  8. ↑ Broucek, A General in the Twilight , p. 225.
personal data
SURNAME Waldstätten, Egon von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldstätten, Arthur Johann Anton Maria Egon Freiherr von (full name at birth); Waldstätten, Arthur Johann Anton Maria Egon (name from 1919)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1951
Place of death Vienna