Otto Meixner from Zweienstamm

Otto Meixner , since 1908 Meixner von Zweienstamm (born February 1, 1858 in Lobzów near Cracow , Galicia , † October 10, 1946 in Mondsee , Upper Austria ) was the Imperial and Royal Field Marshal lieutenant , infantry general and fortress commander of Timisoara .

Otto Meixner from Zweienstamm

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Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt

Otto Meixner was the son of First Lieutenant Eduard Meixner and the twin brother of Hugo Meixner . After successfully completing the military school in St. Pölten and the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , both twin brothers were retired as lieutenants in 1879 and assigned to infantry regiment number 55. From 1881 to 1883 they attended the same class at the war school and were discharged on May 1, 1883 as first lieutenant in the general staff . Otto Meixner was assigned to the staff of the 22nd Infantry Brigade and promoted to captain on May 1, 1886 . On November 19, 1889, he married Margarete, the daughter of Major General Johann Ritter von Kubin , and his twin brother Hugo married her sister Auguste on the same day.

From May 1, 1890 to October 1, 1891 Otto Meixner served in Infantry Regiment No. 54 in Olomouc . Then he became a trainer for "train, communication and catering". During this teaching post he received his promotion to major on November 1, 1892 and on May 1, 1895 to lieutenant colonel . On October 23, 1896, he was appointed chief of the third section of the military technical committee. For his successful work he received the Military Merit Cross on September 2, 1897 . From this point on, Meixner was also active in military journalism.

After his promotion to colonel on May 21, 1898, he took command of Infantry Regiment No. 13 in his hometown of Kraków on April 1, 1899 and was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class on April 18, 1903 . On August 9, 1904, he took command of the 41st (Landwehr) Infantry Brigade in Pilsen , followed by his promotion to major general on November 1, 1904. On December 1, 1907, he was appointed section head of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of National Defense . While his brother Hugo held an important post in the administration of the Austro-Hungarian Army , Otto Meixner held an important position in the administration of the Imperial and Royal Landwehr under the Imperial and Royal Defense Minister Friedrich von Georgi .

On July 9, 1908, Otto and Hugo on August 5 of the same year were raised to the nobility with the predicate "of two tribes". His promotion to Lieutenant Field Marshal took place on November 1, 1908. For his outstanding performance in the Ministry of Defense, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order on February 25, 1910 . On October 23, 1911, he received the Military Merit Medal (Signum Laudis) on ribbon and was transferred to the commander of the 4th Infantry Division in Brno on the same day . On July 25, 1912 Otto Meixner received from Zweienstamm the appointment as commander of the 7th Corps near Timisoara . Here he received the title of Privy Councilor on April 2, 1913 and shortly thereafter he was promoted to General of the Infantry . Until October 10, 1914 he was commanding general in the Banat and fortress commander of Timisoara.

At the beginning of the First World War he and his corps were initially designated for the invasion of Serbia , but the planned participation of the 7th Corps in the invasion of Serbia was not carried out and the association was initially used to secure the transition to the Sava and Danube . In August 1914 he moved with his corps to the Russian front, but because he did not comply, he was officially released from his command for health reasons and ordered back to Vienna on October 7, 1914. On February 1, 1915, Meixner was given leave of absence and retired at the beginning of 1919.

In 1926 Meixner became president of the Society of Former Alumni of the Alt-Neustadt Military Academy . He held this position until 1937 and then became honorary president of the company. General Otto Meixner von Zweienstamm died on October 10, 1946 in Mondsee in Upper Austria. His remains were transferred to Vienna, where he, like his brother Hugo, was buried in the family grave at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof in Vienna's 14th district .

Fonts

• Makeshift for studying catering, training and communication in an operational relationship. 1894
• Historical review of the provisions of the armies in the field. , 5 volumes, 1897–1910.
• Study on the draft of the exercise regulations from 1901 in comparison with the German, Russian and French. Regulations. 1902

literature

• Peter Broucek :  Meixner von Zweienstamm, Otto, General. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 97 f. (Direct links on p. 97 , p. 98 ).
• Austrian Federal Ministry for the Army and War Archives. Under the direction of Edmund Glaise-Horstenau (Ed.): Austria-Hungary's Last War 1914-18. The war year 1914. From the outbreak of war to the outcome of the battle at Limanowa-Łapanów Edited by Eduard Czegka, Volume 1, Vienna 1930 full text online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Otto Meixner from Zweienstamm on austro-hungarian-army.co.uk
2. ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums. Th. Breit Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
3. ^ Peter Broucek :  Meixner von Zweienstamm, Otto, General. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 97 f. (Direct links on p. 97 , p. 98 ).
4. ↑ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: oesta.gv.at The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Austrian State Archives 2007, p. 117. 
5. ^ Otto Meixner von Zweienstamm
6. ↑ epub.oeaw.ac , Otto Meixner of two trunk on Austrian Commanders