Karl von Lukas

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Karl Albert Freiherr von Lukas (born September 7, 1860 in Lemberg ; † March 8, 1932 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a general of the infantry in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was used as the commander of the 19th Infantry Division and the 24th Corps.

Life

His father was a military treasurer. Lukas attended the military college and the military high school in St. Pölten .

He received his officer training at the Maria-Theresia-Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . In addition to German, he spoke excellent French and Polish for official use and, barely, Hungarian and Romanian. He had a daughter and a son.

Lukas was made major general on May 31, 1910 and field marshal-lieutenant on May 13, 1913. After the outbreak of World War I , he was in command of the 19th infantry division on the Galician front and led this division in the autumn of 1914 at the Battle of Komarów . On December 1, 1914, on the heights of Myślenice , he was seriously wounded while trying to inspect the front lines. He suffered a fracture in the thigh area and his leg had to be shortened by 4 cm. He compensated for this with a higher heel of the boot so as not to reduce his suitability for front duty. In 1915 he was promoted to military commander of Prague and in 1916 appointed as the fortress commander of Krakow. On May 15, 1917 he was appointed General of the Infantry and Commander of the XXIV Corps on the Isonzo Front . From October 1917 deployed as part of the 2nd Isonzo Army , the XXIV Corps had four divisions. Highly decorated, Lukas was made a baron. For health reasons, he was replaced by General Goiginger in the spring of 1918 and spent the last months of the war as Graz military commander. On October 1, 1918, Lukas took an oath in Graz in front of the welfare committee on the newly formed state of German Austria .

After the collapse of the monarchy, he applied for acceptance into the armed forces of the republic with the addition that his oath to the emperor should not be affected. Since this could not be accepted in this way, Lukas retired on January 1, 1919.

He received his pension from 1919, but not from Austria, but from Poland, since he was born in Lemberg. He moved to Berlin and was on the board of an insurance company.

Lukas died in Berlin in 1932. He was buried with a salvo of honor and an Austrian imperial anthem . The Lukas file with eleven pages is preserved in the Austrian State Archives .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generality 1816–1918 ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Austrian State Archives, Vienna 2007, p. 109 (PDF).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Steinböck (ed.): Graz as garrison. Contributions to the military history of the Styrian capital. Leykam, Graz / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7011-7120-3 , p. 83.
  3. ↑ Josef Riegler (Ed.): November 1918. Styria between monarchy and republic. Exhibition in the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv in Graz, November 2008 to March 2009. Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2008, p. 17.

literature

  • Dieter Kindermann: On a private search for clues. First World War series, Kronen Zeitung from July 14, 2013 pp. 38–39 (part of Krone Bunt). In the article, the reward application for Luke is printed, which is in the State Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Lukas, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lukas, Karl Albert Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian infantry general
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1932
Place of death Berlin-Zehlendorf