Othmar Tuider

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Othmar Franz Tuider (born June 2, 1926 in Stegersbach ) is an Austrian military historian . From 1981 to 1989 he was head of the military science department of the Army History Museum in Vienna.

Life

Tuider comes from Burgenland . After attending the high school for boys in Fürstenfeld , he was an air force helper in and near Linz from September 1943 . In the period from May 1942 to October 1943 he completed glider training a. a. at the Reichsegelflugschule Spitzerberg . From March to June 1944 he did Reich Labor Service . In August / September 1944 he worked at the 7th Rippin Aircraft Rifle School ( West Prussia ) and from September to November 1944 with the 3rd Air Force Training Battalion 1 in Oschatz . He then took part in the pre-flight course at the local Air War School 3, where he stayed until March 1945; he became a flag boy . After the facility was closed, he was transferred to the headquarters company of the 25th Paratrooper Regiment. He took part in the battles for the Seelower Heights and Berlin . Due to a renewed wound, he was brought to the reserve hospital 114 ( Berlin-Schöneberg ), which was later taken over by the Russians, at the end of the Second World War . After moving to Frankfurt / Oder , he was released from Soviet captivity in October 1945 .

In 1945/46 he took part in a course at the Keplergymnasium Graz , so that he could then start studying philosophy, history and geography at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . In 1949 he was with the Eastern European dissertation (geography, folklore) The Batthyány and the people on their possessions of today's southern Burgenland in the 19th century, particularly the reign Güssi to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1951 he worked for the Vienna Federal Security Guard . In 1956 he attended the Linz- Ebelsberg Military Academy and took part in the armed forces' security operation during the Hungarian crisis . In 1957 he returned to the Vienna Police Department, where he became a police department inspector in 1961.

In 1963 he was taken over into the army administration, where he was assigned to the military science department of the Federal Ministry for National Defense and a year later retrospectively became a scientific assistant. In 1966 he was promoted to senior assistant and transferred to the General Troop Inspectorate at the Army History Museum (HGM) in Vienna. After a gun exercise, he was appointed Ensign of the Reserve in 1967 . In 1968 he became scientific councilor and in 1973 senior councilor. From 1981 to 1989 he was the successor to Anton Legler , also a civilian, head of the military science department at the HGM; In 1981 he was also appointed councilor . He then retired.

From 1974 to 1996 he worked as a freelancer for Leopold Stocker Verlag in Graz.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Johannes Rüling : The Prussians in Lower Austria 1866 (= Military History Series . H. 4). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1966.
  • The fighting in the area in front of the Fischbacher Alps. 1945 (= military historical series of publications . H. 17). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-215-73215-7 .
  • The military districts XVII and XVIII. 1938–1945 (= Military History Series . Issue 30). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-215-02103-X .
  • (Ed.): Bibliography on the history of the field divisions of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS 1939–1945 . 2 parts (part 1 (1976) edited with Anton Legler and Hans-Egon Wittas and part 2 (1984)), Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 1976/84.
  • The Air Force in Austria 1938–1945 (= Military History Series . H. 54). Bundesverlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-215-05908-8 .
  • (Staff): Leopold Banny : Roaring sky, burning land. The deployment of air force helpers in Austria 1943–1945 . ÖBV, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-06272-0 . (2nd edition 1994)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Hanusch : Eastern European dissertations 1951–1953. German-speaking area, Northern Europe, Western Europe, USA . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe NF 3 (1955) 1, pp. 73–113, here: p. 76.
  2. ^ Peter Broucek , Kurt Peball : Trends and Goals since 1945 . In: Dies .: History of Austrian Military Historiography . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-412-05700-2 , pp. 107-180, p. 153.
  3. ^ Peter Broucek , Kurt Peball : Trends and Goals since 1945 . In: Dies .: History of Austrian Military Historiography . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-412-05700-2 , pp. 107-180, p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Tuider, Othmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuider, Othmar Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Stegersbach