Maximilian Csicserics from Bacsány

Maximilian Csicserics von Bacsány (born March 3, 1865 in Arad , † November 8, 1948 in Agram ) was an Austro-Hungarian Privy Councilor and general of the infantry .

origin

Csicserics was born as the son of the Austro-Hungarian Colonel Ignaz Csicserics (born September 30, 1828 - January 2, 1882) and Auguste, daughter of the Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Colonel Karl von Mollinary. Csicserics attended the grammar school in Vinkovci , then the upper secondary school in Mährisch-Weißkirchen. His father Ignaz was ennobled on November 13, 1877 in Gödöllö and has since been called "Csicserics von Bacsány". Maximilian was 17 years old when his father died of pneumonia in Agram in 1882 as commandant of the kuk 83rd Landwehr Infantry Brigade.

Military career

He graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , became a lieutenant on August 18, 1884, and joined Infantry Regiment No. 38. The further career brought him into the general staff service. Since January 1, 1889 first lieutenant , he was appointed captain in the General Staff Corps on November 1, 1892 . In 1892 he worked for the records office of the General Staff and was commissioned to go to Kazan for a year in order to perfect his training in the Russian language. In 1897 he became battalion leader in Infantry Regiment No. 85. Promoted to major on November 1, 1898 , his career developed smoothly and finally brought him to the General Staff , where he worked as a staff officer between 1898 and 1902. On May 1, 1902, he became a lieutenant colonel and company commander in Infantry Regiment No. 46. During the Russo-Japanese War , he was delegated to Manchuria on February 15, 1904 as an Austrian military observer . In October 1905 he succeeded Colonel Adolf von Rhemen as Chief of Staff of the XIII. Corps in Agram and was promoted to colonel on November 1st . On April 28, 1908, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the XI. Army corps appointed. On May 1, 1911, he became major general and took command of the 30th Infantry Brigade. From 1912 until the beginning of the First World War he acted as a teacher for strategy at the war school in Vienna. He later tried in vain to apply the experience he had gained in Manchuria to the role of fortresses and the use of heavy artillery in warfare with the Chief of Staff Conrad von Hötzendorf .

In the world war

On August 1, he took over the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian 5th Army (General of Frank Infantry ) in Syrmia during the 1914 campaign in Serbia . On October 10, 1914 he was entrusted with the corps command on the Danube line, he had to prepare the bridge heads of the Danube Tulln-Krems-Vienna-Pressburg to war status and was promoted to field marshal lieutenant on November 1st . On April 17, 1915 he was appointed as the successor to Hugo Martiny as the commander of the 14th Infantry Troop Division and took part in the advance of the higher-level VIII Corps ( Scheuchenstuel ) from the Sztropko area over the Lupkow Pass to Lemberg . In the period that followed, his division was subordinate to the V (FML Ferdinand Goglia ) and IV Corps ( Albert Schmidt von Georgenegg ) in the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army , which was able to advance on Brody until August 1915 . On June 9, 1916, the front of the kuk XIII. Corps torn up during the Brusilov offensive on the Dniester , the corps commander General von Rhemen was replaced by Csicserics as the new commanding general on July 6, 1916 . On June 14, 1917 he took over the leadership of the XXIII. Army corps in Italy, which was deployed in the section of the 1st Isonzo Army under Colonel General von Wurm . Since December 14, 1917, he acted as Austria's military representative in the peace negotiations with the Soviets in Brest-Litovsk . On February 27, 1918 he was promoted to General of the Infantry, a little later he took over command of the XXIII for the second time. Army corps in Italy, which he led in June 1918 during the Battle of the Piave near San Donà di Piave . After the war was lost for the Austrian monarchy, Csicserics was finally retired on January 1, 1919. In 1928 he married Gabriele Jagodics de Kernyécsa, and in 1942 the couple moved to Zagreb to secure the pension they were entitled to. He spent his last five years completely blind and helpless. His wife did everything to enable him a bearable life.

literature

• Max Eder: The General of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Secret Council Maximilian Csicserics von Bacsány , dissertation, University of Vienna 2010

Web links

• Military biography
• Dissertation by Max Eder
• Biography data sheet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The KK or KuK Generalität 1816–1918 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Austrian State Archives, Vienna 2007 (PDF).