Maximilian Rottauscher from Malata

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Maximilian Rottauscher von Malata (born January 31, 1846 in Olomouc , † March 20, 1921 in Ilz ) was a naval officer of Austria-Hungary .

Maximilian Rottauscher was born in Olomouc as the son of major general and military historian Karl Rottauscher von Malata . From 1861 he attended the naval school in Pula and took part in the naval battle of Lissa in 1866 . From 1871 to 1873 he was an officer on the Corvette Fasana's trip to East Asia . He worked as a teacher at the Naval Academy and in the Operations Office of the Marine Section. In 1888 he became a corvette captain , in 1891 a frigate captain , from 1896 he was retired. In 1904 he received the rank of kuk captain of the line ship ad honores.

He wrote (partly together with his brother Viktor) under the pseudonym Paul Rohrer some biographical writings about the Austrian Navy , which are still considered the standard description of the officer life in the Austrian Navy. He was the father of the writer Alfred Rottauscher von Malata and the grandfather of the ethnologist and anthropologist Friedrich von Horn Fitz-Gibbon .

Publications

  • Maximilian Rottauscher from Malata: “When Venice was Austrian. Just a breath of memory. ” , Vienna, 1966 ag
  • Maximilian Rottauscher von Malata, With the Tegetthoff in Lissa, in: Memories of a naval officer
  • Maximilian Rottauscher von Malata, The Austro-Prussian War 1866, in: Personal memories

literature

personal data
SURNAME Red exchanger from Malata, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1921
Place of death Ilz (Styria)