Otto Josef von Berndt
Otto Josef Berndt , since 1917 Knight von Berndt (born April 18, 1865 in Tiefenbach near Tannwald , Northern Bohemia ; † December 3, 1957 in Vienna ) was Lieutenant Field Marshal and from 1909 to 1914 commander of the kuk Dragoon Regiment "Nikolaus I. Kaiser von Russland “No. 5 .
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Life
Otto Berndt was the son of a daughter of the master miller Ignaz Ritschel from Bensen . After he was orphaned at the age of seven, his grandfather was given custody. After graduating from secondary school in Böhmisch Leipa , he attended the commercial academy in Vienna. At the age of 19 he came as a one-year volunteer to a dragoon regiment in the fortress Theresienstadt ; In 1888 he became a career officer. After that he was alternately with the cavalry and the general staff in action. In 1901 he became major in the General Staff, in 1914 commander of the 4th Cavalry Division, from December 1915 to November 1916 Chief of Staff of the 4th Army. On August 1, 1917, he was appointed field marshal lieutenant , and in July 1918 he was promoted to commander of the 29th Sudeten German infantry division in Veneto .
In January 1918, as a knight of Berndt , he received the nobility diploma awarded to him by Emperor Karl I in 1917 , which raised him to the hereditary Austrian knighthood. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, his name fell under the Nobility Repeal Act . He then lived as a pensioner in the now Czechoslovak border town of Znojmo and after 1945 as a displaced person in Vienna . Up until old age he kept in contact with the former officers of the Austro-Hungarian Styrian-Carinthian-Carniolan Dragoon Regiment "Nikolaus I. Kaiser von Russland" No. 5 , especially with his successor as regimental commander, Major General Camillo Bregant .
War awards
- Order of Leopold , knight with war decorations and swords
- Franz Joseph Order , Knight
- Order of Leopold 2nd class with KDS
- Order of the Iron Crown 2nd class with KDS
- Military Merit Cross 2nd Class with KDS
- Military Merit Cross 3rd Class
- Iron Cross , 1st Class, 1914
- Iron Cross, 2nd Class, 1914
Fonts
- Last fight and end of the 29th Infantry Division. 1930.
- The 5-er Dragoons in World War 1914–1918. Pressure and Major Paul Kaltschmid publisher, Vienna 1940.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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, p. 14 (PDF).
- ↑ Vladimír Šefl: Maršál Otto Josef Rytíř von Berndt. Retrieved January 30, 2016 (Czech).
- ↑ Jörg C. Steiner: Schematismus der Generals u. Colonels of the Kuk Army from 1918 p. 25
literature
- Reichenberger Zeitung , May 20, 1955 edition
- Heribert Sturm (Ed.) Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 83.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berndt, Otto Josef von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berndt, Otto Josef Ritter from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian field marshal lieutenant and cavalry officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiefenbach near Tannwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1957 |
| Place of death | Vienna |