Heinrich Kummer von Falkenfeld

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Heinrich Freiherr Kummer von Falkenfeld (born April 22, 1852 in Preßburg , Kingdom of Hungary , † December 8, 1929 in Salzburg , Republic of Austria ) was an Austro-Hungarian officer, most recently a general of the cavalry .

Life

Kummer von Falkenfeld attended the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and then the War Academy . From 1894 to 1900 he served as chief of staff of the kuk X. Corps and was appointed major general on May 1, 1900 . On May 1, 1905, he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant and was commander of the 19th kuk infantry division in Pilsen until 1910 . On May 1, 1910 he was promoted to general of the cavalry and took over the leadership of the kuk X. Corps in Przemyśl . He then became deputy kuk Landwehroupkommandant .

At the beginning of the First World War he led an army group under his name on the Eastern Front in the Sandomierz area . On August 16, 1914, his group consisting of Landwehr formations reached the Nowe Brzesko-Miechow line and established contact with the Silesian Landwehr Corps under General von Woyrsch , which was advancing towards Petrikau . Kummer von Falkenfeld covered the advance of the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army (General Dankl ) on Lublin during the Battle of Kraśnik on the western bank of the Vistula . The 95th and 106th Landwehr Divisions under Major General von Richard-Rostoczil and Czapp and the 7th Cavalry Division under FML von Korda were subordinate to him . After the Austrian defeat in the Battle of Galicia and the loss of Lemberg , his army group was disbanded on September 12th and General Kummer von Falkenfeld was transferred to the War Ministry in Vienna. On August 1, 1916, he was retired from military service.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spencer C. Tucker (Ed.): World War I: A - D. , Volume 1, p. 656, ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau : A general in the twilight. 1. K. uk General Staff Officer and Historian , p. 156, ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
personal data
SURNAME Falkenfeld, Heinrich Kummer von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkenfeld, Heinrich Freiherr Kummer von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian officer, most recently general of the cavalry in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1929
Place of death Salzburg , Republic of Austria