Karl von Kurz (General, 1873)

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Karl Borromaeus Hermann Maria Kurz , from February 3, 1886 Ritter von Kurz , (* December 24, 1873 in Vienna-Alservorstadt ; † January 12, 1946 in Eisbach , Styria ) was an Austrian officer, most recently in the rank of major general , as well as SS- Brigade leader .

Life

Karl Ritter von Kurz was the son of the Austro-Hungarian officer Karl Borromäus Johann Nepomuk Josef Maria Ritter von Kurz (* September 14, 1832 - February 10, 1920), who had been appointed major general on May 1, 1891, on October 1, 1893 was retired and on August 6, 1910 received the character of titular field marshal lieutenant . He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Karl Ritter von Kurz junior switched to a grammar school in Innsbruck after attending primary school in Brno . Kurz embarked on a career as a professional soldier and graduated from the Maria Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . Promoted to lieutenant , he served with the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger , took part in the First World War as a battalion and division commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army and was deployed on the Italian front and in Russia . After the end of the war, Kurz was retired from the army. Then he got a job at the mountain management in Seeboden near Leoben.

Kurz worked for the Styrian Homeland Security in 1925 and later switched from there to the NSDAP . He was briefly arrested a few months before and shortly after the July coup. He then lived in Graz , where, after the annexation of Austria, he became regional warrior leader of the Nazi Reich Warrior Association . Kurz had joined the SS on April 20, 1939 (SS no. 323.046), where he was initially SS-Obersturmbannführer .

After the beginning of the Second World War he was reactivated and, as a colonel in the Wehrmacht, commanded a state rifle regiment in Westphalia . In April 1943 he was given the rank of major general and was given final retirement in the course of this. Kurz, with the rank of SS Oberführer since 1942 , then applied to the SS Personnel Main Office to join the Waffen SS . Due to his age, his application was rejected, but on his 70th birthday on December 24, 1943, he was appointed SS-Brigadführer.

After the end of the war he was interned in the UK , where he died in January 1946 due to illness.

literature

  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register of the kuk Feldsuperiorats Wien Volume 19, Folio 101.
personal data
SURNAME In short, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES In short, Karl Borromaeus Hermann Maria Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Alservorstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1946
Place of death Eisbach (Styria)