Gunther Spath

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Gunther Spath (born April 23, 1951 in Villach ) is an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces with the rank of brigadier . Until August 1, 2012, he was military commander of Carinthia .

Life

Gunther Spath was born on April 23, 1951 in Villach and attended elementary school in his hometown. After graduating from the Villach Bundesrealgymnasium in 1969, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Austrian Armed Forces. From 1970 to 1973 he completed officer training at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , where he was retired as a lieutenant . Afterwards he was deployed as platoon commander, adjutant and company commander with Jägerbataillon 25 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee .

1979 to 1982 Gunther Spath attended the 9th general staff course at the National Defense Academy in Vienna. He was then head of General Staff Department 3, responsible for training, organization and preparation for operations at the Carinthian Military Command and from 1987 Chief of Staff and Deputy Military Commander in the Carinthian Military Command.

From May 1988 to October 1988 he was a lieutenant colonel of the General Staff for a short period in command of the Jäger Battalion 25 .

When deployed because of the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , he was head of the task force in Carinthia in 1991. From 1997 to 1999 Spath acted as head of department for comprehensive national defense, civil-military cooperation and the protection of cultural property in the management department of the Federal Ministry for National Defense . Afterwards, as head of General Staff Department 3 at the Corps Command I in Graz, which was dissolved in 2002, he was responsible for training, deployment preparation, organization and international affairs (including the formation of the Kosovo contingent) for the troops of the Federal Army in Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia.

From 2002 to 2006 he was again chief of staff and deputy military commander of Carinthia, until he became military commander of Carinthia on December 1, 2006. He replaced Major General Gerd Ebner .

The officer retired in 2012 and was replaced by Brigadier Walter Gitschthaler on August 1, 2012 in the role of military commander of Carinthia .

Private

Gunther Spath is married and has three grown children. He is the author of articles on security and socio-political topics as well as the author of poems on various topics. The writing activity since the age of 16 has been silent for 40 years, from 2008 twelve books appeared in quick succession (see works). He is also chairman and president of several clubs. As an endurance athlete, he has completed 15 marathons, 3 Ironman triathlons and an ultra run. In 2014 he won 3rd prize at the literary competition of the Carinthian Educational Institute with a short story on the subject of "Hurrying with a while". In 2018 he received the Gurktaler Literature Prize in the "Performance" category for the best presentation of his own works.

Works

Volumes of poetry

  • From thoughts of consolation and strength (Hermagoras, 2008)
  • A swan for every season (Hermagoras, 2009)
  • After work (Hermagoras, 2010)
  • Thoughts without a muzzle (Hermagoras, 2011)
  • Not for the cat! (Hermagoras 2013)
  • DU - love poems (Memoirenverlag 2014)
  • On the way-after-thought-out (Memoirenverlag 2015)
  • Fooled - Lyrical Arrows (Memoirenverlag 2016)
  • Reflections - poetry about faith, life, love and laughter (Memoirenverlag 2018)

prose

  • Letters from exile (satirical reflections on life in Vienna as "newcomers") (Hermagoras, 2008, new edition of Memoiren-Verlag 2014)
  • Sommernachtsbretter (cheerful novel about a festival performance of "Midsummer Night's Dream") (Memoiren-Verlag, 2014)
  • Denglish.Smartkrank.Adummie and other articles on declining intelligence (satires about gradual stupidity) (Memoiren-Verlag, 2019)
  • Really? From Selfietod to Esoschmarrn (stories about decreasing intelligence in the update of "Denglish.Smartkrank.Werbedummie") (Memoiren-Verlag, 2020)

Single articles and lectures

  • From the past into the future ... Julius Hanak on his 75th birthday
  • Islam and Us (from the publication: Dealing with Each Other in a Multi-Religious Society)
  • Live religiously in a multicultural society
  • Sport and Faith: Personal Approach
  • Education character formation effigies
  • Martin Luther in the Controversy of Biographers
  • Martin Luther - an evangelical saint?
  • Security policy between ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility
  • One hundred years ago - the end of the war in Carinthia in 1918
  • A hundred years ago - the strategies of the conflicting parties in the Carinthian defensive struggle

Awards and decorations (extract)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Spath, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military, brigadier of the Austrian Federal Army
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Austria