Rudolf Materna

Rudolf Materna (born January 12, 1883 in Hostinné , Bohemia , † April 28, 1938 in Vienna ) was a Lieutenant Field Marshal in the Austrian Armed Forces .

Life

kuk monarchy

Rudolf Materna graduated from the infantry cadet school in Prague and was transferred to Feldjäger Battalion 25 in 1903. In 1904 he was made a lieutenant and from 1908 to 1911 attended the kuk war school in Vienna. Upon successful completion, Materna was assigned to the General Staff Department of the 12th Infantry Troop Division in Krakow . At the beginning of the war in 1914 he was appointed captain in the general staff and served in various tasks before he was transferred to the 10th Army Command on the Southwest Front in June 1916, where he saw the end of the war.

Republic of Austria

After the end of the war, Rudolf Materna served as head of the adjutant office for the Vienna commander-in-chief and in 1920 was taken over as major in the general staff in the new federal army . It was used by the city command in Vienna and in 1923 by the 2nd Brigade in Vienna. As his chief of staff under Major General Otto Wiesinger , Materna, meanwhile promoted to lieutenant colonel, first worked from August 1, 1926 to October 4, 1927. Promoted to colonel in 1928, he replaced his successor Colonel Wilhelm Gebauer on January 1, 1929 and was again chief of staff 2nd brigade. From 1932, he worked under Major General Alfred Jansa in Section 1, Department 1, Border Guard, International and Statistical Affairs, Army Medical Services in the Federal Ministry for the Army. In June 1933 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army Inspector Major General Sigismund Schilhawsky and in the same year he was appointed Major General. This was followed in 1934 by the military technical examination commission and other activities in the army inspectorate. Materna was appointed head of the mobilization department in 1935, as he had already carried out the preparatory work for possible conscription a year earlier. Rudolf Materna resigned as Field Marshal Lieutenant in 1937 because of a kidney disease. Usually back from active duty.

Awards

Awards:

• Officer's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit
• Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
• Order of the Iron Crown , 3rd class knight, war decoration with swords
• Military Merit Cross 3rd Class, War Decoration (eligibility confirmed after November 12, 1918)
• Military Merit Cross 3rd Class, war decoration with swords
• Silver Military Merit Medal on the ribbon of the Military Merit Cross, war decoration with swords
• Bronze military merit medal on the ribbon of the Military Merit Cross, war decoration with swords
• Military Jubilee Cross 1908
• Memorial cross 1912/13
• Prussian Iron Cross 2nd class

literature

• R. Egger:  Materna Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 139 f. (Direct links on p. 139 , p. 140 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Materna in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Infantry Brigades of the Austrian and Eastern European Union Army in May 1914. In: weltkriege.at . Retrieved July 16, 2020.
2. ↑ Alfred Jansa: From my life. Chapter X. Head of d. Section II in the BMf. National Defense and Chief of the General Staff for the Armed Power. In: diemorgengab.at . Retrieved July 16, 2020.
3. ↑ From Ordinance Gazette No. 2. In:  Oesterreichische Wehrzeitung , March 6, 1936, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).