Otto Seitz (General)

Otto Seitz (born June 11, 1911 in Agram ; † October 24, 1974 in Upper Mölltal ) was an Austrian general who headed Section III in the Federal Ministry for National Defense and during 1971 was "entrusted with the tasks of the General Troop Inspector" .

Life

Otto Seitz served in the armed forces since 1929 , became a lieutenant in the Alpine Jäger regiment No. 12 in Tyrol in 1934 and qualified for the general staff course in 1937 . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , Seitz was taken over by the German Wehrmacht and transferred to the War Academy in Berlin with his fellow students . After completing general staff training, he served in various general staff assignments. He took part in the French campaign with the 205th Infantry Division and as a German liaison officer in the Romanian army in their attack on the Soviet Union . In 1942 he was on the staff of the 7th Mountain Division in Finland at the front in Karelia . Further general staff assignments in the Crimea , on the Atlantic coast and on the invasion front near Caen followed. In the Falaise pocket as lieutenant colonel i. G. captured, he was in camps in Canada and England until 1946. After a short period in civilian professions, he was involved in setting up the B-Gendarmerie from mid-1952 as a gendarmerie major and commandant of the Tyrol I gendarmerie school . In 1955 he became head of the organization department in the Office for National Defense, and from 1956 was entrusted with the management of Group III in Salzburg . Promoted to major general in 1958 , he remained in command of this group until 1961, the corps area of which included all of western Austria. On July 1, 1961, Seitz , who had meanwhile been promoted to general of the infantry , was appointed head of Section III, the military command section of the Federal Ministry for National Defense . When General Erwin Fussenegger demonstratively retired at the end of 1970 because of his rejection of the reduction in service and the ensuing army reform, Seitz was entrusted "regardless of his function as section head with the tasks of the General Troop Inspector". He performed this task from January 1 to November 30, 1971. He himself also retired at the end of 1971. He died unexpectedly three years later while driving in the Mölltal.

literature

• Stefan Bader: At the top. The generals of the Federal Army of the Second Republic . Vienna 2004, p. 324 ff .