Hans Tarbuk
Johann "Hans" Tarbuk (born July 16, 1886 in Przemyśl ; † July 4, 1966 in Vienna ; 1904 to 1919 Tarbuk von Sensenhorst; also: Tarbuk-Sensenhorst ) was an Austrian officer in the Austro-Hungarian army , the federal army in the corporate state and subsequently of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War .
Life
family
Tarbuk came from an originally Croatian family of "Militärgrenzern" at the military frontier , the border region of Austria to the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, whose parent series with Ciril Tarbuk in Tušilović started (mentioned 1803-1815), and was the son of the still born there kuk Field Marshal Lieutenant Johann Tarbuk , Edler von Sensenhorst (1853–1919; grandson of the aforementioned Ciril) and Mathilde Josefa, b. Bayrhammer (1856-1926). On November 18, 1904, the family was raised to the Austrian nobility with the addition of "Edle von Sensenhorst". With the Nobility Repeal Act of April 1919, they were lost again.
Tarbuk was with Rosa, geb. Shoemaker Haala (1894–1962), married; the marriage remained childless. He had the four brothers Karl , Robert, Felix and Fritz Tarbuk and two sisters.
Military career
Tarbuk-Sensenhorst was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, retired as a lieutenant on August 18, 1908, from April 30, 1932, Lieutenant Colonel, from December 18, 1936, Colonel in the Austrian Ministry of Defense, later Major General of the Austrian Armed Forces and from 1939 in the German Wehrmacht, where he before Dietrich von Choltitz City Commandant in Paris, WBK. Nikolsburg (September 1, 1939), WBK. II Vienna (January 3, 1940), Railway Pioneer Regiment 701 (June 8, 1940) and later in the Soviet theater of war with the rank of major general (August 1, 1940) FK 242, 748, 660 and 620; from January 1945 as Deputy Leader Themselves. D. was.
After Tarbuk was taken prisoner by the Soviets, he was charged on May 3, 1945 before a Soviet military tribunal (SMT) in Bobruisk and initially remained detained without trial. On November 4, 1947, as commander of the 242nd field command, he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor for participating in the murder of around 3,000 Jews in Kirovograd in autumn 1941.
In the 10-year Soviet prisoner of war, he suffered serious damage to his health, including having one foot amputated. It was not until 1955 that Tarbuk returned to his hometown of Vienna after the Austrian government intervened to bring back the last soldiers in Soviet captivity.
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cf. on the naming of "Major General Johann Tarbuk, Edler von Sensenhorst" and his brother "Major General Karl Tarbuk , Edler von Sensenhorst" in: Marcel Stein: Österreichs Generale im deutschen Heer: 1938–1945. Black / yellow - red / white / red - swastika. Biblio, Bissendorf 2002, p. 348, ISBN 3-7648-2358-5 . ( Limited preview in Google Book search.)
- ^ A b Klaus-Dieter Muller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947): A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, p. 109 f., FN 32, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 . ( Full text in Google Book Search.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarbuk, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarbuk, Johann (real name); Tarbuk, Edler von Sensenhorst, Johann (noble name from 1904 to 1919); Tarbuk von Sensenhorst, Johann; Tarbuk-Sensenhorst, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Przemyśl , Crown Land of Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1966 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |