Konrad Hornung

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Konrad Hornung (born November 16, 1877 in Eggenburg ; † June 3, 1964 in Vienna ) was an Austrian officer, most recently in the rank of major general and SS brigade leader .

Life

Hornung, the son of a master baker, embarked on a career as a professional soldier in the Joint Army after attending the elementary school in Retz and the lower secondary school in Znojmo . He graduated from the cadet artillery school in Vienna by August 1898 and then served in the 42nd division artillery regiment. In 1904 he reached the rank of first lieutenant .

As an artillery officer with the rank of captain in the Austro-Hungarian Army , he took part in the First World War from 1914 onwards . From September 1915 to January 1917 he was a member of the Army High Command and was then head of the artillery group under Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević von Bojna . At the beginning of May 1918 he became a lieutenant colonel . After the end of the war, Hornung was taken over into the Austrian army . From 1920 he was group leader at the Federal Ministry for the Army and was promoted to colonel in June 1923 . In early May 1926 he was on the examination board for the higher military service and was promoted to major general in November 1926. At the end of January 1929 he was adopted into retirement.

Hornung was a member of this party from 1931 until the NSDAP was banned in Austria in 1933 and again after the annexation of Austria ( membership number 6.150.270). In the course of the restructuring of the NS-Reichskriegerbund , he initially took over the function of regional warrior leader in Vienna and from 1939 that of juggler leader Alpenland in Salzburg . On March 30, 1939 he was promoted to major general z. V. of the Army of the Wehrmacht. With the rank of Standartenführer Hornung was accepted into the SS on April 20, 1939 (SS-No. 323.044) and promoted to Oberführer with effect from September 10, 1939 . On April 20, 1943, he was awarded the rank of SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the SS. From the beginning of April 1944, he was entitled to wear the field-gray uniform of a major general in the Waffen SS . He was a staff leader in the SS upper section Alpenland.

After the end of World War II he was before a people's court for denunciation accused but acquitted.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, pp. 335–337.
  2. ↑ a b c d Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, Peter Broucek (ed.): A general in the twilight: the memories of Edmund Glaises von Horstenau , Volume 2, Vienna 1983, p. 674.
personal data
SURNAME Hornung, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, most recently with the rank of major general and SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1964
Place of death Vienna