Eugen Bregant (Major General)

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Eugen Bregant the Elder (born January 29, 1875 in Trieste , coastal region; † November 18, 1936 in Graz , Styria ) was major general , commander of infantry regiment No. 1 and an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces in the First Republic. His younger brother was the well-known horseman and last cavalry inspector of the First Republic, Major General Camillo Bregant .

Major General Eugen Bregant 1927
Eugen Bregant with his family (standing left)

Career

Eugen Bregant joined the Austro-Hungarian Army at Infantry Regiment No. 97 in Trieste as a one-year-old volunteer on October 1, 1893 and became part of the Imperial Landwehr Infantry Regiment "Klagenfurt" No. 4 (it belonged to the Imperial and Royal Mountain Troops and was called from April 11, 1917 Mountain Rifle Regiment No. 1) assigned. Because he never completed a law degree at the University of Graz, he interrupted his service from 1894 to 1897 and 1901.

Special military training

  • Infantry equitation in Trieste
  • Army shooting school and machine gun course in Bruck an der Leitha
  • Corps officer school in Graz (1910)
  • Storm course in Villach (1917)
  • Army gas school in Vienna (1917 and 1918)
  • Information course in Brixen (1918)

War effort and decorations

During the First World War , the area where the kuk Rifle Regiment No. 1 was deployed in 1914 in Galicia at the first battle of Lemberg , from 1915 until the end of the war on the Isonzo front in the Carnic Alps section from Tarvisio to the Predil Pass . In 1915 Bregant Eugen was involved in various combat missions, including the Oregone Pass , the storming of Monte Peralba and the Hohen Trieb . From 1916 until the end of the war he was in command of the Landsturminfanterie-Battalion 156 (LIB No. 156), in 1917 sub-section commander of the Zollner high altitude position, participated in several Isonzo battles and then served at various focal points on the front from the Piave to the Stilfserjoch . On November 4, 1918, Bregant and LIB No. 156 went into Italian captivity at Ponte di Arche in South Tyrol as a result of the ceasefire agreement announced by the Austrian Army High Command (AOK) 36 hours too early, from which he was only released on August 4, 1919.

Highly decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold , the Order of the Iron Crown of the Austrian Empire III. Class both with KD u. S., the Military Merit Cross III. Class mdKr.Dek. and the bronze military merit medal on the red ribbon, which was awarded twice, all with war decorations and swords, various other awards and with the Karl Troop Cross , Bregant returned home from the war. The application to be awarded the Military Maria Theresa Order was not completed because the war was over.

On May 1, 1918 as No. Having become 11 major in the ranking, he was taken over by the Austrian Armed Forces after 23 years of service in the Austro-Hungarian Army. From May 1, 1921, after he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, he was assigned as an officer in the 5 cycle battalion. From March 1922 officer for special use, in 1923 with the Alpenjägerregiment No. Assigned to 11 and 10, he became commander of the Alpine Jäger Regiment No. 1. After he was appointed major general in March 1927, he retired in 1928.

Wounds

literature

  • Hubert Fankhauser: Volunteers on Carinthia's borders. The regimental history of the KK Carinthian volunteer riflemen 1915 to 1918. Vehling Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85333-150-7 .
  • Austrian State Archives / War Archives . Vienna.
  • Heinz von Lichem : Spielhahnstoke and edelweiss. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1977.
  • Heinz von Lichem: The Tyrolean High Mountain War 1915–1918 . Steiger Verlag, Berwang (Tyrol) 1985.
  • Michael Wachtler and Günther Obwegs: War in the mountains - Dolomites . Athesia Bozen 2003.
  • von Lemprü: Ortlerkampf 1915-1918 . Book Service South Tyrol 2005.
  • Herman Hinterstoisser, M. Christian Ortner, Erwin A. Schmidl The kk Landwehr mountain troops. Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902526-02-5 .
  • Arno Georg Kerschbaumer: civil servants, entrepreneurs, officers ; S. 309-313 ISBN 978-3-9504153-4-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award date July 31, 1918 Reimpare KK Ministry of National Defense; now Austrian State Archives
  2. ^ Award date October 28, 1914 according to Reimpare KK Ministry of National Defense; now Austrian State Archives
  3. ↑ request July 11, 1918 lt Reimpare KK Ministry of Defense. now Austrian State Archives
  4. ^ Lists of the status of the Austrian Armed Forces in the First Republic; now Austrian State Archives
  5. ↑ Super-Arbitration Commission May 6, 1920 Klagenfurt; Austrian State Archives

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personal data
SURNAME Bregant, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian major general
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1936
Place of death Graz , Styria