Emmerich Nagy (General)

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Lieutenant General Emmerich Nagy, July 1942

Emmerich Nagy , also Emmerich von Nagy (born September 15, 1882 in St. Paul ob Ferndorf , Carinthia ; † September 17, 1965 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian - German infantry general , later converted to a general of the mountain troops .

Life

Entry into the army and First World War

Emmerich Nagy joined the Austrian army as an ensign in mid-1904 after completing his cadet training at the Liebenau infantry cadet school and was promoted to lieutenant in the 1st kuk Tiroler Jäger Regiment (Kaiserjäger) in Vienna at the end of 1905 and was then sent to the 2nd regiment. As a major he took part in the First World War and was assigned to the General Staff Corps at the end of 1912.

Activities in the armed forces

In 1914 he was a captain in the militia and in 1920 as Deputy Chief of Staff of the 6th brigade command in the army adopted. Until 1928 he was promoted to colonel and was head of the Lower Austria Army Administration Office .

In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and in 1934 became major general in the armed forces . In mid-1935 he was transferred to the 1st Department of the Federal Ministry for National Defense , which he took over in early 1935. At the end of 1935 he was retired because of his National Socialist sentiments and on charges of treason . He had repeatedly passed on confidential communications from State Secretary Wilhelm Zehner to the German military attaché Wolfgang Muff .

Takeover and activities in the Wehrmacht

At the beginning of 1938 Emmerich Nagy was taken over into the Wehrmacht , appointed major general and commander of Army Service 20 in Klagenfurt . He received a "reparation amount" of just under 5,600 RM for the damage suffered in his "fight for the Nazi uprising in Austria".

In 1938 he worked as a military expert at the trial of the officers of the former Austrian Infantry Regiment 59 , who had put down a putsch by SA men ( Lamprechtshausener NS putsch ).

The following year he was at the beginning of World War II as a lieutenant general shortly commander of Klagenfurt with his staff, border guards command section 20. From late 1939 until the dissolution of the rod he was such as commander of the division beginning the 1941st b. V. 538 (also Infantry Division 538), in which his original staff of the former Army Service 20 had been integrated, deployed on the German-Italian and German-Yugoslav borders. Until mid-1941 he was deputy commander in military district XVIII for Carinthia and Carniola , based in Veldes . He was then on the staff of the Mountain Corps Norway in 1941/1942 and in command of the LXXI until the end of 1942. Army Corps (71st) in Northern Norway .

Activities in the "Muff Commission"

He gave as part of the so-called " Muff Commission" z. B. a negative assessment for Oskar Regele and was fully committed to personnel issues in this "commission". Likewise, Major General Eduard Barger (1882–1962) was classified as unsustainable by Emmerich Nagy's assessment .

On August 1, 1942, he was promoted to General of the Infantry and at the end of 1942 his rank was changed to General of the Mountain Troops . Emmerich Nagy was retired from the military on January 31, 1943.

After the war

From 1945 to 1948 he was included in the fourth Austrian war criminals list, captured and, after almost three years of illness, the trial against him was discontinued without compensation.

Then he was an SPÖ functionary for the reconstruction of an Austrian army until around 1955 .

His first marriage was to Sonja Hlavac († 1953) and his second marriage to Christine von Grossauer.

literature

  • Schematism for the Austro-Hungarian Army , KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei , 1916
  • Marcel Stein: Austria's Generals in the German Army: 1938–1945 , Biblio, 2002, p. 304 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An elevation to the nobility is not documented, but the nobility name is used in some sources.
  2. ^ Catholic parish of St. Paul ob Ferndorf, Birth Book Volume IV, p. 33.
  3. ^ University of Michigan: Schematism for the Imperial and Royal Army and for the Imperial ... KK Hof- undStaatsdruckerei., 1907, p. 641 ( archive.org [accessed December 18, 2019]).
  4. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4844-5 , pp. 141 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
  5. ^ Charles D. Pettibone: THE ORGANIZATION AND ORDER OF BATTLE OF MILITARIES IN WORLD WAR II . Trafford Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4907-3386-9 , pp. 235 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Peter Barthou: Einmarsch '38: Military-historical aspects of March 1938: Accompanying volume for the special exhibition of the Army History Museum, June 11th-9th. November 2008 . Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, 2008, ISBN 978-3-902551-08-5 , p. 77 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Peter Barthou: Einmarsch '38: Military-historical aspects of March 1938: Accompanying volume for the special exhibition of the Army History Museum, June 11th-9th. November 2008 . Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, 2008, ISBN 978-3-902551-08-5 , p. 84 ( google.de [accessed on February 18, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Nagy, Emmerich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nagy, Emmerich von (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German commander and general of the infantry, later converted to general of the mountain troops
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Paul ob Ferndorf
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1965
Place of death Klagenfurt