Casimir von Lütgendorf

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Kasimir Dominik von Lütgendorf (until 1919 Freiherr , born December 31, 1862 in Graz , † July 28, 1958 ) was an Austro-Hungarian general of the infantry in the First World War .

Kasimir von Lütgendorf (drawing by Oskar Brüch 1914)

Life

As the son of the major of the same name, a member of the Lütgendorf aristocratic family , he graduated from the military high school in Mährisch Weißkirchen . From 1880 he attended the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt Castle .

At the beginning of the war, Field Marshal Lieutenant Lütgendorf commanded the 7th Infantry Troop Division in the Serbia campaign , and from September to October 1914 also his own corps group . He was militarily responsible for Syrmia County , where 3500 Serbian civilians, subjects of the dual monarchy, were killed by his troops in the first two weeks of the war alone. On August 17, 1914, Lütgendorf ordered a massacre of residents in the small Serbian town of Šabac . Up to 120 residents, mostly women, children and old men, who had previously been locked in the church, were stabbed, shot and buried by kuk troops in the church garden.

In October 1914, Lütgendorf took command of the 31st Infantry Troop Division in place of Joseph August of Austria on the Russian Front and was involved in the battle in the Carpathians and the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów under Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli . In May 1916 he headed the XXI. Corps during an unsuccessful attack on the Italian front in Tyrol.

As early as October 1916, his corps was transferred to the Romanian theater of war . In August 1917 he was promoted to general of the infantry . In the last year of the war, Lütgendorf and the XXI. Corps relocated to the Italian front. After the end of the war he retired at the beginning of 1919.

In the peace treaty of Saint-Germain , Lütgendorf was listed among the war criminals to be extradited by Austria to the victorious powers. However, as with Germany, there was not a single extradition.

In June 1920 he was charged by the Vienna public prosecutor's office, not with the Sabac massacre, but with the execution of three Austro-Hungarian soldiers the next day. The drunken soldiers shot around and were bayoneted in front of the church of Šabac on Lütgendorf's orders without questioning or trial . Lütgendorf was in the sensational trial ultimately only to six months arrest for offenses against the martial law condemned.

The Defense Minister of the Second Austrian Republic, Karl Lütgendorf , was his nephew.

Fonts

  • Exercise collection for the application study of tactics. Seidel, Vienna 1896.
  • About the occupation and pacification of insurgent mountainous lands. With special consideration of the tribes and the terrain on the Balkan Peninsula. Seidel, Vienna 1904.
  • Military leader over the battlefields of the monarchy. Exclusive Hungary. Seidel, Vienna 1908.
  • The mountain war. War in the high mountains and in the Karst. Seidel, Vienna 1909.
  • The battles in South Tyrol and in the adjacent areas of Veneto and Lombardy from 1701 to 1866. With reflections on warfare and fighting methods in the mountains. Seidel, Vienna 1911.
  • Revision without war. History and teaching. Genzinger / Harbauer, Budapest / Vienna 1934.
  • Alpine winter sports and its importance for tourism and the front. Harbauer, Vienna 1935.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Hastings: Catastrophe 1914. Europe goes to War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-59705-2 , p. 226.
  2. ^ Max Hastings: Catastrophe 1914. Europe goes to War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-59705-2 , p. 226.
    Herbert Lackner : "Literally chopped up." In: Profil 44 (2014) of October 27, 2014.
  3. ^ Hans Hautmann : The crimes of the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and their failure to cope with after 1918. Communications from the Alfred Klahr Society, No. 3/2004
  4. ^ Anton Holzer : With all means In: Die Presse from September 19, 2008.
    Max Hastings: Catastrophe 1914. Europe goes to War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-59705-2 , p. 227.

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personal data
SURNAME Lütgendorf, Kasimir von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lütgendorf, Kasimir Dominik Freiherr von; Lütgendorff, Kasimir von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian general in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1958