Géza Kövess

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Geza Kövess

Géza Albin Alois Eugen Emerich Kövess von Kövessháza , from 1917 Baron Kövess von Kövessháza , from 1919 Géza Kövess (born May 26, 1896 in Preßburg , Austria-Hungary ; † October 12, 1977 in Vienna ) was an Austrian officer and historian . In 1950 he was provisional director of the Army History Museum .

Life

Géza Kövess was born in 1896 as the son of Lieutenant Colonel Hermann Kövess von Kövesshaza (1854-1924), later Field Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army , and his wife Eugenie, daughter of the law teacher and Austro-Hungarian Minister Anton Baron Hye von Glunek , in the capital of today's Slovakia as one of three children born. In 1917 the father became a Hungarian baron (see Nobility Repeal Act 1919).

He attended the humanistic grammar school in Innsbruck, the state grammar school in Bozen and the catholic Jesuit grammar school in Kalksburg as well as schools in Vienna, Hermannstadt (Transylvania) and Mährisch-Weißkirchen (Moravia). After graduating from the Staatsgymnasium Vienna VIII , he completed the Frequentant Course at the Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy in Mödling and was retired as a lieutenant in the reserve. In World War I he was reactivated and served in the heavy field artillery regiment 16; he served in Serbia, Italy and Romania, most recently in the rank of first lieutenant .

In 1919 he joined the Hungarian national army , the Lehár division . In 1920 he was given leave of absence. From 1920 to 1924 he was a contract employee at the Lower Austrian Escompte Society in Vienna. Then he was a civil servant at Odol Compagnie AG in Vienna and in 1926/27 at the United Doepos Getreide AG and Futterverk. Society.

From 1927 he studied history and art history at the University of Vienna . In 1933 he was Karl Ritter von Schoen neck to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1933 to 1935 he completed the training course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna (state examination 1935). In 1936 he became a first lieutenant in the Austrian army .

In 1939 he became a member of the Artillery Replacement Regiment 45 and in 1940 of the Artillery Replacement Regiment 262 of the Wehrmacht . After he had already been a research assistant at the Army Museum in Vienna in 1938 , he became (major) curator and councilor in 1940.

Kövess married Gertrud von Spiess, daughter of the royal Romanian court hunter and author on hunting topics, August Roland Spiess von Braccioforte zu Portner and Höflein on June 12, 1943 Vienna.

After the Second World War he became a research assistant (1948) and curator 2nd class (1949). As early as 1949 he represented the director Alfred Mell . In 1950 he was entrusted with the provisional management of the museum. In 1951 he became deputy director and in 1954 curator 1st class. In 1960 he became an official of Administrative Service A, Scientific Service. In 1961 he retired.

Kövess was a board member of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler" and Greffier of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece .

literature

  • Kurt Peball : Kövess von Kövesshaza, Géza Freiherr . In: Peter Broucek , Kurt Peball: History of Austrian Military Historiography . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-412-05700-2 , p. 479 ff.
  • Manfred Stoy: The Austrian Institute for Historical Research 1929–1945 (= communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Supplementary volume 50). Oldenbourg, Vienna a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7029-0551-4 , p. 344, fn. 468 (short biography).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The title was made bourgeois on the basis of the "Law on the Abolition of the Nobility, Secular Knights and Ladies Orders and Certain Titles and Dignities" of the Republic of Austria (Nobility Repeal Act ) of April 3, 1919 with effect from April 10, 1919.
  2. ^ Rainer Egger:  Kövess von Kövessháza, Hermann Baron. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 416 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Manfred Stoy: The Austrian Institute for Historical Research 1929–1945 (= communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Supplementary volume 50). Oldenbourg, Vienna a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7029-0551-4 , p. 344, fn. 468; According to Broucek & Peball (2000) 1916/17 the academics course at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt: Kurt Peball : Kövess von Kövesshaza, Géza Freiherr . In: Peter Broucek , Kurt Peball: History of Austrian Military Historiography . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-412-05700-2 , p. 479.
  4. ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner : Phoenix from the ashes. Destruction and reconstruction of the Army History Museum, 1944 to 1955. Volume accompanying the special exhibition of the Army History Museum. June 21 to October 30, 2005 . A publication by the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Military History Institute Vienna Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85028-411-5 , p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Kövess, Géza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kövess, Géza Albin Alois Eugen Emerich; Kövess von Kövesshaza, Géza Albin Alois Eugen Emerich Baron (1917–1919); Kövess von Kövesshaza, Géza Albin Alois Eugen Emerich Baron (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1977
Place of death Vienna