Julius von Latscher-Lauendorf

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Julius Freiherr Latscher von Lauendorf

Julius Freiherr Latscher von Lauendorf (born July 22, 1846 in Iglau , Moravia , † August 2, 1909 in Salzburg ) was an Austro-Hungarian general and kk state defense minister .

Life

Latscher graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , from which he was retired as a lieutenant in the pioneer corps. After attending military school in 1868 and 1869, he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1870 and assigned to the general staff .

In 1877 he was assigned to the General Command in Vienna. In 1881 he was appointed major and was initially assigned to the General Staff of the 29th Infantry Troop Division and from 1887 to the General Staff of the 5th Corps. On April 27, 1893 Julius Latscher was appointed kuk General Pioneer Inspector. In 1897 he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant . In 1899 he was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I with the predicate "Edler von Lauendorf".

From April 9, 1905, Julius Latscher von Lauendorf acted as commanding general of the 9th Corps in Josefstadt , a fortress town in northern Bohemia. Also in 1905 he was promoted to Feldzeugmeister and appointed a real secret council .

On October 28, 1906, Latscher was appointed by the Kaiser to the Imperial and Royal Minister for National Defense (responsible for the Imperial and Royal Landwehr , hence also known as the Landwehr Minister). On December 1, 1907, at his request, he was relieved of grace by the Emperor “out of health considerations” and at the same time elevated to the status of baron. (De facto he resigned because of a parliamentary conflict.) At the beginning of 1909, the field witness was retired. At the beginning of August 1909 he died in Salzburg at the age of 63.

Latscher was with Antoinette ("Netka") Latscher von Lauendorf, b. von Callenberg (1863–1944) married. After his death she was the long-time companion of General a. D. and later Federal President Theodor Körner , who from 1918 lived as a subtenant in Mahlerstraße next to the State Opera . Ruth von Mayenburg , whose mother was friends with Antoinette Latscher-Lauendorf, reported that her fellowship with Körner had been described behind her back as a “wild marriage” or “pension concubinat” (coexistence for pension considerations of non-married pensioners).

literature

  • Peter Broucek :  Latscher von Lauendorf Julius Frh .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 41.
  • Senta Ziegler: Austria's First Ladies: From Louise Renner to Margot Klestil-Löffler, Ueberreuter 1999, ISBN 3-8000-3719-X , p. 6 f.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, German Aristocratic Archive, HF v. Ehrenkrook, CA Starke Verlag 1989, p. 200.
  • Hanns Hubert Hofmann: The German officer corps 1860-1960, ed. v. Military History Research Office , Boldt Verlag 1980, ISBN 3-7646-1775-6 , p. 199 margin no. 111.
  • H. Pepper: Otto Bauer, work edition, Volume 5, ed. vd Working group for history d. Austrian labor movement, European publishing house 1978, ISBN 3-203-50548-7 , p. 871 ff.
  • Austria in History and Literature, ed. v. Working group for Austrian history, Institute for Austrian Studies, Stiasny Verlag Graz 1957, p. 556.
  • Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the manor house of the Reichsrat, Hof- und Staatsdruckerei 1907, p. 233.
  • Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the House of Representatives, Hof- und Staatsdruckerei 1907, p. 39323.
  • Handbook of the Supreme Court and the Court of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Court and State Printing Office 1907, p. 207.
  • Schematism for the Austro-Hungarian Army and for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, ed. v. kuk War Ministry , Court and State Printing Office 1900, p. 127 u. 152.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 249, Vienna, October 30, 1906, p. 1.
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 278, Vienna, December 3, 1907, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Eric C. Kollman: Theodor Körner. Military and Politics , Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7028-0054-9 , and R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-486-43661-9 , p. 23.
  4. ↑ Eric C. Kollman: Theodor Körner. Military and Politics , Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7028-0054-9 , and R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-486-43661-9 , pp. 135 f.
personal data
SURNAME Latscher-Lauendorf, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latscher Freiherr von Lauendorf, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian general and kk national defense minister
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1909
Place of death Salzburg