General Körner command building

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The General Körner command building (Breitenseer command building) is located at Hütteldorfer Straße 126 in Vienna's 14th district of Penzing .

Theodor Körner command building

It was built as an officer's house separate from the Breitenseer barracks . In 1898 the Imperial and Royal Infantry Cadet School , one of the largest military schools in the monarchy , was housed here. In 1919 the building was used by the Federal Education Institute for Boys and from 1939 by the National Socialist NAPOLA (National Political Education Institute). After 1955, parts of the Vienna military command were housed here. In 1967 the building was named "General Theodor Körner Command Building " and today houses the Army Intelligence Office .

Located near two other barracks, the "Little Breitenseer barracks", named since 1967 "Biedermann-Huth-Raschke barracks," according to the three Austrian officers of the German Wehrmacht Major Karl Biedermann , Captain Alfred Huth and Lieutenant Rudolf Raschke , the executed as resistance fighters in April 1945 during the battle for Vienna .

Furthermore, there is the "Große Breitenseer Kaserne", which was named Vega-Payer-Weyprecht-Kaserne in 1967, after the engineer, mathematician and officer Jurij Vega and the two polar explorers Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht , the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition .

The former district police station and, in an area separated by the new Spallartgasse, the higher graphic federal teaching and research institute , where the sick barracks were located at the time of the Napola, were built on the area of ​​the command building.

The monument to Emperor Franz Joseph I in the Burggarten in Vienna is a metal copy of a stone monument created by Johannes Benk in 1904 and intended for the infantry cadet school.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 57 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 17 ″  E