Stephan of Ljubičić

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Coat of arms on the occasion of Ljubičić's elevation to baron status in 1916
Battle of Limanowa, December 1 to 13, 1914

Baron Stephan von Ljubičić , Croatian Stjepan barun Ljubičić (born September 25, 1855 in Vrginmost , Croatia ; † August 16, 1935 in Vienna ), was an Austro-Hungarian officer of Croatian descent, most recently a field warden with the title of Hungarian nobility .

biography

Stephan Ljubičić was born in Vrginmost as the son of a middle-class kk lieutenant . After his upbringing in the military training center in Banati Weißkirchen and then in the military training center in Kamenitz and Güns , he attended the technical school in Mährisch Weißkirchen . He then entered the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Academy , where he completed the higher artillery course and the Austro-Hungarian artillery shooting school .

On September 1, 1877 he was assigned as a lieutenant to the field artillery regiment No. 6 until January 1, 1883 for four years, during which he was promoted to captain 1st class (May 1, 1888). was used in the general staff, 1893/94 chief of staff in the Krakow fortress command combined with the promotion to major (May 1, 1894).

From 1894 to 1898 you found Ljubičić, since November 1, 1896 lieutenant colonel, in the 6th department of the Ministry of War again.

On May 1, 1900, Ljubičić was promoted to Colonel and Chief of Staff of the 10th Artillery Corps, where he replaced Colonel Heinrich Kummer von Falkenfeld . He held this post until his appointment as major general on May 1, 1906 (rank of May 8, 1906), combined with the post of commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade Division.

1909-1910 he was in command of the 13th Landwehr Infantry Division, advancing to field marshal lieutenant (appointment May 1, 1910, rank May 17, 1910). On the day the rank was confirmed, he changed positions again until the beginning of the war and became head of section in the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Defense.

At the beginning of the First World War, Ljubičić succeeded the cavalry general Desiderius Kolossváry de Kolosvár as commander of the 45th Landwehr Infantry Division and was appointed Feldzeugmeister on October 7, 1914 (rank of November 1, 1914). Since September 1914 Ljubičić was the commanding general of the kuk XI. Corps that he led during the battle of Limanowa - Lapanow . In March 1915, his command passed to Ignaz Edler von Korda and Ljubičić finally became the commander of the "Ljubičić Group". In August 1916 Ljubičić was listed as "kuk Feldzeugmeister, on leave with waiting fee".

Ljubičić was raised to the Austrian hereditary baron status on August 8, 1916 by handwriting from Emperor Franz Joseph I and received a coat of arms ; the corresponding diploma was issued on August 24, 1916 in Vienna. Ljubičić was among other things with the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class, the Military Merit Cross , the Military Jubilee Cross and the Jubilee Commemorative Medal for the Armed Force .

He died on August 16, 1935 in Vienna and was buried there on August 20 in a Catholic ceremony.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oesta.gv.at
  2. ↑ http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/nobilitashungariae
  3. ↑ a b c Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. / I. Ferenc József király (1914–1916) . Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504153-2-2 , pp. 267-269.
  4. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ... - Volume 33, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1907, pp. 94, 287
  5. ↑ Erwein Lobkowicz: "Memories of the Monarchy", Amalthea Verlag 1989, pp. 171 f., 179
  6. ↑ Pál Arató (SJ): "Political documents on Emperor and King Charles I (IV.) From international archives", Vol. 2, Verlag Böhlau, 2004, No. 3
  7. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, Maximilian Ehnl, Edwin Sacken (Freiherr von.): "Austria-Hungary's last war, 1914-1918", Volume 3, Verlag der Militärwissenschaftlichen Mitteilungen, 1930, p. 150
  8. ↑ Schematism of the KK Landwehr and the KK Gendarmerie of the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe, Vienna 1910, p. 131

literature

  • Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, Maximilian Ehnl, Edwin Sacken (Freiherr von.): “Austria-Hungary's Last War, 1914-1918”, Volume 3, Verlag der Militärwissenschaftlichen Mitteilungen, 1930
  • Erwein Lobkowicz: "Memories of the Monarchy", Amalthea Verlag 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Ljubičić, Stephan von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ljubičić, Stjepan barun (HRS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Vrginmost , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1935
Place of death Zagreb