Hugo Kerchnawe

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Hugo Kerchnawe (born February 10, 1872 in Klosterneuburg , † June 6, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian major general and military historian.

Life

Hugo Kerchnawe (1917)

Kerchnawe was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Kerchnawe (1834-1897). He attended the military lower secondary school in Eisenstadt and the military upper secondary school in Mährisch Weißkirchen and studied at the artillery department of the Technical Military Academy in Vienna. In 1892 he became a lieutenant. From 1895 to 1897 he attended the war school in Vienna (general staff training), became a first lieutenant in 1896 and was with the 5th Infantry Brigade in Linz , and from 1899 to 1901 he was in the troop service in Komorn (from 1899 as a captain). In 1902 he came to the War Archives of the General Staff and stayed there until 1908. At that time, he was doing research particularly on the Napoleonic Wars . In 1909 he became a major and in 1912 a lieutenant colonel. From 1909 to 1911 he was Chief of Staff of the 15th Infantry Division in Miskolc ( Borsod County ). From 1911 to 1914 he was a teacher of war history at the war school in Vienna.

During the First World War he served in the General Staff of the 2nd Army Command in Serbia and then in Russia, where he served in the artillery corps under the Prussian General Remus von Woyrsch . From January 1915 to July 1916 he was in command of the 16 Field Gun Regiment (later of No. 27) on the Russian front. From 1915 he was a colonel. In 1916 he became Chief of Staff of the Serbian Government in Belgrade , where he made a contribution to building up the civil administration (transport, medical services, agriculture).

From 1920 to 1925, as titular major general, he was head of the office for returns at the military liquidation office in Vienna.

He also dealt with military policy and in 1907 wrote the novel Our Last Struggle as a counterpart to the works of the pacifist Bertha von Suttner . In it he foresaw the defeat in the First World War. The novel caused a sensation in its time and some suspected Kerchnawe, author of the future novel 1906 , published around the same time, to have been The Collapse of the Old World (which, however, comes from Ferdinand Grautoff , pseudonym Starfish). After the First World War he wrote about the defeat and end of the old Austro-Hungarian army and its history.

He was editor of the writings of C. Bigot de Saint Quentin (1911). From 1921 to 1938 he headed the Austrian Society for Army Studies .

His estate is in the Vienna War Archives.

Fonts

  • The Austrian relation over the Battle of San Martino 1859, Austrian Military Journal , 1904, p. 1045.
  • Use of cavalry, reconnaissance and command of the army in the main army in the decisive days of Leipzig (October 2–14, 1813), 1904.
  • Kolin, 1907.
  • Cavalry weapons in Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland 1864, 1907.
  • Our last fight, the legacy of an old imperial soldier, Vienna and Leipzig, CW Stern, 1907, archives
  • Thoughts on the contemporary structure of our Wehrmacht, 1907.
  • 60 years of the Austro-Hungarian cavalry 1848–1908, 1908.
  • The prehistory of 1866, 1909 (anonymous)
  • Austria's presence in power in 1809, Austrian Military Journal, 1909, p. 571.
  • Collaboration with: Wars under the government of Emperor Franz, 1809, Vol. 3, 4, 1909, 1910.
  • Aspern, 1910.
  • The development of our army at the time of Archduke Karl, Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift, 1912, pp. 715, 899, 1069.
  • with A. Veltzé: Field Marshal Karl Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, 1913.
  • The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Wehrmacht in 1918, 1921.
  • The military administration in the areas occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops, in: Economic and Social History of the World War, 1928.
  • Field Marshal Prince zu Windisch-Grätz and the Russian Aid 1848, 1930.
  • The inadequate armament of the Central Powers as the main cause of the defeat, in: Austria-Hungary's Last War, Supplement 4, 1932.
  • Overcoming the first world revolution, 1932.
  • with E. Ottenschläger: Book of Honor of our Artillery, 2 volumes, 1935, 1936.
  • The old kk military frontier. A protective wall of Europe, in: Row Southeast, Part 1/21, 1939.
  • with M. Brunner: 224 years of the Technical Military Academy 1717–1942, 1942.
  • Prince Eugene of Savoy. A military-biographical study, 1944.
  • Radetzky. A military-biographical study, 1944.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The archetype of such military science fiction by military politicians who simultaneously wanted to point out deficiencies in military preparation in peacetime was The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney 1871. In Germany, the successful novel Ein Kampf um Rom (1876) by Felix Dahn , the Kerchnawe cited as the motto of his book, also understood by contemporaries as time-critical references.
  2. ↑ Based on the memories of Mauritz von Wiktorin , then an Austro-Hungarian General Staff officer. Broucek, Understanding of Tradition and Visions of the Future in Literary Works by Austrian Officers, in Jürgen Nautz, Richard Vahrenkamp (ed.), The turn of the century in Vienna: Influences, Environment, Effects, Böhlau 1993, p. 518.
personal data
SURNAME Kerchnawe, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian major general and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1949
Place of death Vienna