Karl Majcen

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Karl Majcen with Waltraud Klasnic at a swearing-in

Karl Majcen (born June 8, 1934 in Graz ) was an Austrian general and from 1990 to 1999 the seventh General Inspector of the Austrian Armed Forces in the Second Republic .

biography

He graduated from high school in 1952 and then joined the B-Gendarmerie , the predecessor organization of the Austrian Armed Forces. Karl Majcen frequented officer training at the officers' academy in Enns and was then a teaching officer at the Theresian Military Academy and company commander in the guard battalion .

After participating in the General Staff Course uses followed in the Federal Ministry of Defense . He was also in command of the Army Reconnaissance Battalion. In 1982 he was transferred to Vienna, where he became military commander of the Vienna Military Command . He took over the position of General Troop Inspector on October 1, 1990 and handed it over to General Horst Pleiner on December 20, 1999 after around nine years . He is a senior consultant at the organization to support Austrian-Chinese economic relations based in Vienna.

Majcen is married and has three children. He is the great-uncle of the extreme athlete Rolf Majcen . He is an honorary member of the Austrian Army Sports Association (ÖHSV).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Transfer of the function of General Troop Inspector of the Federal Army , BMLV, December 20, 1999.
  2. ↑ ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives: Org. Z. Unterst. D. Austrian-Chin. Wirtschaftsbez. ) Vienna, October 2007.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.oecwb.org
  3. ↑ Honorary members of the OEHSV. Retrieved December 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Majcen, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general and general troop inspector of the Austrian Armed Forces
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz