Karl Schneller

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Karl Schneller (pseudonym Hans Rudorff ) (born April 19, 1878 in Vienna ; † April 24, 1942 there ) was an Imperial and Royal General Staff officer in World War I, an Austrian general and poet .

Karl Schneller ( Oskar Brüch , 1916)

Life

Origin and education

Karl Schneller was born in 1878 as the son of Lieutenant Field Marshal Arnold Schneller (1846–1911), most recently in command of Komorn Fortress , and Johanna Schneller, née Pirner († 1887). He attended a secondary school in Vienna until 1888 and, coming from an officer's family, had to pursue an officer career against his will. He switched to the military lower secondary school in St. Pölten until 1892 , then to the military upper secondary school in Mährisch Weißkirchen until 1895 and from 1895 to the technical military academy in Vienna.

Early career

In 1898 he was retired from service in Artillery Regiment No. 8 as a lieutenant and in 1902 he was promoted to first lieutenant . After three years of military service and completing the kuk war school (1901–1903), he served from 1905 as a captain in the general staff and with the troops.

He started writing poems early on under the pseudonym "Hans Rudorff" . In his poem Tornness , which he wrote after completing his military career, he described his own turmoil which, as a thinking child, forced him into a profession that consisted of violence, murder, commands and obedience. Even so, he should make it to the position of General Staff Officer and General. He had learned Italian, English, French, Greek and Latin by himself. He wanted to be able to read and understand the writers of antiquity in the original. His knowledge of the language made him a sought-after advisor. In 1908 he was assigned to the War Ministry (Vienna) and was used in diplomatic negotiations. On November 3, 1909, he married Maria Elisabeth Haselberger. His son Otto was born on December 21, 1910.

Back in active service in 1912, he was promoted to major in 1913 and appointed chief of staff of the 47th Infantry Troop Division.

In the first World War

Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , he came to the operations office of the General Staff. He acted as a liaison officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became head of the press service in the Austro-Hungarian Army High Command . In 1915 he was appointed lieutenant colonel and, after Italy entered the war, as a general staff officer, worked out an operational plan for an offensive in South Tyrol . In 1917 he was promoted to colonel and was given active command of the high mountain section of Travenanzes in the Dolomites . In August 1917 he became Chief of Staff of the XIV Corps under General von Martiny . In November 1918, under General Weber, he was one of the signatories of the Villa Giusti armistice and in 1919 took part in the negotiations on the Treaty of Saint-Germain as a military expert for the Austrian delegation .

During the First World War he was part of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army on several fronts . He recorded his war experiences and the mission in St. Germain in his war diary. The horrors he experienced at the front had finally made him a pacifist .

post war period

In the First Republic he was involved in building up the new federal army and was section head in the Army Ministry . After the Social Democrats had left the government, the Christian Socials did everything in their power to occupy all positions of power in the state. Theodor Körner , with whom Karl Schneller was a close friend, was retired in 1924, and two years later it was his own turn. He went with the rank a general in pension . In 1926 he also became a member of the Social Democratic Party. He devoted himself to literature, published poems in the socialist press and gave literary lectures and readings. In 1933 he joined the Association of Socialist Writers .

In February 1934 Fast was arrested and until September 1934 at the detention camp Wöllersdorf detained, where he sonnets written, but he was able to write only after the release.

Karl Schneller died on April 24, 1942 as a result of his Parkinson's disease and was buried in the Grinzing cemetery .

Works

  • Poems , Leipzig 1920
  • In the eternal stream. Poems , Vienna - Leipzig 1936
  • Captivity. A book of sonnets. Karl R. Stadler (ed.). Publication by the Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement. With an introduction by Franz Taucher and a closing word by Karl R. Stadler. Vienna, Munich, Zurich 1978
  • Moments, not blown away. Poems , Eisenstadt 1980
  • The curse of mankind. Poems against the demon of war , Eisenstadt 1981
  • Ahasver. Dramatic poem in a prelude and four acts , Eisenstadt 1982
  • Songs about death, life and love , Eisenstadt-Wien 1983
  • Thermidor. The fall of Robespierre. A prologue and nine pictures , Eisenstadt-Wien 1984

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document collection on Karl Schneller of the Theodor Kramer Society (PDF; 1.73 MB), accessed on November 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Faster, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudorff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1942
Place of death Vienna