Ferdinand of Goglia

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Ferdinand Ritter von Goglia as FZM

Ferdinand Goglia , knight of Goglia since 1916 (born September 13, 1855 in Budapest ; † September 17, 1941 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian military officer , served as a corps leader in World War I and was also general artillery inspector from 1916 to 1918.

Life

origin

Ferdinand Goglia was born in 1855 as the son of the imperial and royal major Ferdinand Goglia and Virginia Pozzi. He attended the cadet institutes in Marburg and Eisenstadt and then graduated from the technical military academy in Vienna.

Early military career

He joined the 12th field artillery regiment in Laibach in 1875 and became a lieutenant on September 1, 1875 . In 1878 he participated in the supply column of the kuk XII. Corps in the occupation of Bosnia . Between 1879 and 1881 he graduated from the artillery school with good success and on May 1, 1881 was first lieutenant . On May 1, 1885, he joined the 13th corps artillery regiment and was promoted to captain on May 1, 1889 . Since November 1, 1892 he was appointed major on January 1, 1894, transferred to the 13th Division Artillery Regiment, where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 1, 1896 to May 1, 1900 . In the meantime he also acted as a teacher at the School of the Field Artillery Regiment. On September 18, 1900, he took command of the 16th Division Artillery Regiment and was promoted to colonel on May 1, 1904 . On April 24, 1906 he took over the Corps Artillery Regiment 2 and in 1907 was honored with the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd class for his services as regimental commander and teacher at the shooting school department in the artillery staff. On April 15, 1910, he became the commander of the Artillery Shooting School, rose to major general on May 1, 1910, and was elected President of the Technical Military Committee on September 28, 1912. On May 1, 1913 he received his promotion to Lieutenant Field Marshal . Goglia was open to renewal in his office and encouraged research into new guidelines in the field of shooting technology.

In the world war

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, he was appointed commander of the 43rd Field Artillery Brigade in the 43rd Landwehr Infantry Division under Major General Albert Schmidt von Georgenegg . At the end of August he commanded his brigade at the Battle of Lviv . When the 43rd Landwehr Infantry Division moved to Russian Poland, he led the artillery deployment off Ivangorod in October 1914 . Before Kielce he was given the command of the artillery brigade of the 12th Infantry Division. His leadership was recognized by the award of the Order of the Iron Crown 2nd Class and the Iron Cross 2nd Class. On December 3, 1914, he took over the command of the 33rd Infantry Division in the section of the kuk V Corps. At the end of November 1914, his units took part in the Battle of Cracow and in the limited pursuit across the Nida River .

In January 1915 the V Corps under FZM Paul Puhallo moved from Brlog to the Carpathians, Goglia's division was deployed between Zemplin and the Uschok Pass . The 33rd Division took part in the advance on the upper San and in the mountain battles near Ustrzyk. After the breakthrough in the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów in May 1915, his units tried to reach the Striwiaz, a tributary of the Dniester.

Coat of arms from Goglia's equestrian diploma, 1917

Already in May 1915 Goglia was entrusted with the command of the V Corps. Under his leadership, the V Corps crossed the Dniester and the Wereszyca, took Mikolajow and threw the enemy back behind the Zlota Lipa . Goglia's corps broke through into the Russian positions at Gologory and reached the old frontier. Between September and October 1915, his already heavily decimated corps offered strong resistance to Russian counter-attacks in the Podkamien area.

For his success as corps commander at the Zlota Lipa and at Gologory, Goglia was elevated to the hereditary Austrian knighthood by decree of Emperor Franz Joseph (Vienna, July 9, 1916). The corresponding diploma was not issued until Emperor Karl I (Vienna, January 31, 1917), when Goglia had already been promoted to kuk Feldzeugmeister. As the files on his ennoblement show, Goglia never applied for the title "from Zlota Lipa", which often appeared during the First World War; it should have been attached to him by the press at first and thus found its way into the literature.

During the Brusilov offensive in 1916, his corps was initially able to maintain itself in the section of the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army ( Böhm-Ermolli ) in the Lopuszno area, but was then forced to retreat north and south to the Ikwa. For his leadership during this time, Goglia was promoted to the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order and on November 14, 1916 to Feldzeugmeister. In December 1916 Goglia was appointed inspector general of the Austro-Hungarian artillery.

After the unsuccessful Piave offensive by the Austro-Hungarian armed forces in Italy, Goglia took over a new active troop command. In July 1918 he was in the section of the 6th Army for a month commanding general of XXIV Corps in the Montello area . At the end of the war, Goglia was entrusted with command of the Belluno Army Group on the Grappa Sector, subordinate to Army Group Boroević . The subordinate corps (I. and XXVI.) Were in the focus of the attacks of the Italian 4th Army (General Giardino) on October 24, 1918, held out and tried in vain to turn the battle of Vittorio Veneto on October 27 . At the beginning of November his troops only fought to escape Italian captivity by quickly retreating north.

After the collapse of the monarchy, Goglia retired on December 31, 1918 and died in Vienna in 1941.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916-1921) , Graz 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 ), p. 72.
  2. ^ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916-1921) , Graz 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 ), p. 72.
  3. ^ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916-1921) , Graz 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 ), p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Goglia, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goglia by Zlota Lipa, Ferdinand Johann Anton Ritter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian Feldzeugmeister in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1941
Place of death Vienna