Heinrich Fath

Heinrich Fath (born May 9, 1863 in Klausenburg , † February 13, 1929 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian infantry general .

Life

He was the son of the military judge Rudolf Fath and attended the Temešvár grammar school . In 1876 he attended the cadet school in the same city and joined the Austro-Hungarian army on March 9, 1880. From August 1880 he served in Infantry Regiment No. 38 and in September 1882 moved to Infantry Regiment No. 86 in Budapest , from 1884 he attended the war school in Vienna . Assigned to the 49th Infantry Brigade in October 1886, where he was appointed lieutenant in November . Since February 1889 with the 2nd Infantry Division and promoted to captain in May of the same year . From September 1890 at the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and from November 1894 company commander in Infantry Regiment No. 76 in Ödenburg . In November 1895 he was chief of staff of the 14th Infantry Division in Pressburg and was also appointed major . For the next four years until 1899 he was a battalion leader in Infantry Regiment No. 19 and from January 1901 in the same position in the 12th Infantry Regiment in Trebinje . Promoted to colonel on November 1, 1901 , and appointed commander of the 28th Infantry Regiment in Budweis in November 1902 . In September 1907 he was in command of the 60th Infantry Brigade in Lemberg and on May 7, 1908 promoted to major general. In September 1909 he became the commander of the 12th Infantry Brigade in Klagenfurt . Since January 1911 commander of the 33rd infantry division in Komorn and promoted to field marshal lieutenant on November 9, 1911 . In April 1913 he was assigned to Corps Command II in Vienna.

At the beginning of the First World War from August 1914 he acted under the fortress leader on the Danube , FZM Benda, as military commander of Vienna. In this position he took care of the expansion of the positions on Bisamberg until 1915 as commander of the "Brückenkopf Wien" . On August 21, 1915, he received the title of General of the Infantry (only on May 5, 1916 did he become a real General of the Inf.). On November 8, 1915, he took over the Fath Corps in northern Volhynia , named after him, in the section of the 4th Army on the Eastern Front , which was subordinate to Army Group Linsingen . In the summer of 1916 his troops (26th and 45th Rifle Division and 53rd Infantry Division) took part in the Styr in the defense of the Brusilov offensive , in October 1916 the Fath Corps was in XXII. Corps renamed. Fath was replaced by FML Rudolf Krauss in November 1916 and was not given a new command until the end of the war. After the war he retired on January 1, 1919. He died in 1929 at the age of 66 and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. His monument on the Bisamberg (Cote 332, Fath-Höhe) was later redesigned as an Eichendorff monument.

literature

• Peter Broucek / Theodor von Zeynek : An officer in the General Staff Corps remembers , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, footnote p. 90
• War Archives: Austria-Hungary's Last War , Volume 5, Military Science Publishing House, Vienna 1934