Georg Schariczer from Rény

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Georg Schariczer von Rény, 1917.

Georg Schariczer , Schariczer de Rény since 1911 , baron since 1917 (born June 6, 1864 in Zombor in Vojwodina , † February 26, 1945 in Pressburg ), was an Austro-Hungarian troop leader of the First World War , most recently general of the infantry .

Early military career

Georg Schariczer was born in 1864 as the son of the Austro-Hungarian captain Attila Schariczer. After the military high school in Mährisch-Weißkirchen he graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and was appointed lieutenant on November 1, 1884 after joining the kuk Infantry Regiment No. 72 . Appointed first lieutenant on January 1, 1889 , he attended the war school in Vienna and was employed on the staff of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in Sarajevo . From 1887 to 1889 he attended the War Academy in Vienna and was promoted to captain in the General Staff Corps in 1893 . On May 1, 1890, he switched to the staff service of the 1st Infantry Brigade. From May 1, 1893, he served in the staff of the IV Army Corps in Budapest, then with the 72nd Infantry Regiment. On May 1, 1899 he was promoted to major and was appointed chief of staff of the Austro-Hungarian 17th Infantry Division. In 1902 he became Chief of Staff of the kuk XIV Corps and on May 1, 1903, he achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel .

In October 1904 Schariczer took command of Infantry Regiment No. 37 in Großwardein ( Nagyvárad ). On May 1, 1906 (with effect from June 19) he was promoted to colonel . A short time later, on August 17, 1906, he was appointed head of the 6th Department in the War Ministry in Vienna. On November 5, 1908, Colonel Schariczer became a wing adjutant and personal assistant to the General Inspector of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, General of the Cavalry Archduke Eugen .

With the highest resolution of Emperor Franz Joseph on March 29, 1911, Schariczer was awarded the Hungarian nobility with the title "de Rény". On November 1, 1911 (with effect from December 2) he was promoted to major general. He then acted as the personal adjutant of the new army inspector, General Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and in 1912 became head of the army inspector's office. On March 19, 1913, Major General Schariczer took command of the 27th Infantry Brigade in Pozsony / Pressburg .

In the world war

180th doctorate of the Military Maria Theresa Order on August 17, 1917 in the Villa Wartholz , where Field Marshal Lieutenant Schariczer (center of the picture, with monocle and looking at camera) received his order cross
Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

At the beginning of the First World War, Schariczer led his brigade in the association of the 14th Infantry Troop Division ( Hugo Martiny ) in the center of the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army in the battle of Kraśnik . The subordinate infantry regiment 76 under Colonel Boeriu stormed the heights of Polichna on August 23. For this success, Schariczer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Maria Theresa Order on September 21, 1914 , the award and his elevation to the status of a Hungarian baron took place on August 17, 1917.

In September 1914 Schariczer took over command of the XII. Corps was subordinate to the Austro-Hungarian 16th Infantry Division , which had to withdraw to Sanok after the defeat on the Wereszyca . In autumn the kuk XII. Corps under General von Kövess with the 16th and 35th Divisions to Russian Poland . On December 24, 1914, Schariczer was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal . As part of the " Woyrsch Army Department ", the 16th Division was under the command of the new corps commander General of the Infantry Johann von Henriquez until 1916 .

After General Brusilov began the Russian summer offensive in 1916, Schariczer's division moved to the Italian front at the end of August 1916 and was immediately involved in the defensive battles of the Ninth Isonzo Battle . On November 22, 1916, he replaced Archduke Joseph as commanding general of the kuk VII Corps on the karst plateau on the southern Isonzo front .

In the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo in May 1917, the attack by the Italian 3rd Army could only be stopped at the cost of heavy losses. Schariczer's corps supported its southern neighbor, the kuk XXIII, which was hard pressed by the Italians. Army corps under General Schenk and prevented the loss of the strategic port city of Trieste with a counterattack . After the breakthrough of the Central Powers in the 12th Isonzo Battle (Caporetto), General Schariczer led his units as part of the 1st Isonzo Army under Colonel General Wenzel von Wurm in the direction of the Tagliamento to the Piave River .

On May 15, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of general of the infantry. During the failed attacks in the Second Battle of the Piave (June 15-25 , 1918) the VII Corps wrestled in vain at Noventa di Piave and finally withdrew across the Livenza River . In November 1918, Schariczer led his troops back across the Tagliamento when the Austro-Hungarian forces withdrew and remained in office until the armistice . On December 1, 1918, he left the front and retired on January 1, 1919.

literature

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. 200.
  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. 200.

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SURNAME Schariczer from Rény, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schariczer von Rény, Georg Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian general of the infantry in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Zombor
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1945
Place of death Pressburg