Viktor von Kraus (General)

Viktor Freiherr von Kraus (born June 22, 1844 in Pardubitz , Bohemia , † August 27, 1923 in Vienna ) was a field marshal lieutenant and Austrian general of the cavalry .

Life

Victor Aegid was born in Pardubitz as the son of the postmaster and knight of the Franz Josef Order, Josef Edler von Kraus (1810-1892) and Juliana Pinka. Kraus married Anna Antonia Hanel (* 1852) from Prague on September 6, 1871 in Prague. His uncle Alfred Freiherr von Kraus acted as best man. The couple had three children.

Like his brother, Josef Edler von Kraus was elevated to the baron status on August 2, 1881. Viktor's uncle was Field Marshal Lieutenant Alfred von Kraus , baron (1824–1909), who was born in Pardubitz . Viktor von Kraus is a brother-in-law of Josefine Broudré geb. Hanel in Pilsen . Josefine Broudré is the mother of Karl Broudre von Goruszów , colonel and last commandant of the Kuk infantry regiment "Edler von Hortstein" No. 92 . Baron von Kraus (FML Viktor Baron Kraus) is also a brother-in-law of the merchant Johann Hanel, married to Caroline Seifert von Eichenstarck (deceased 1906 in Pilsen) and a brother-in-law of Sylvester Tomsa .

Military career

Viktor von Kraus graduated from the cadet school in Fiume and the Wiener Neustädter military academy. In 1863 he was retired as a lieutenant in the Braunschweig cuirassiers. As a first lieutenant he fought against Prussia in 1866 . After graduating from war school, he was assigned to the General Staff in 1870 and was employed by the Bulz Cavalry Brigade in Prague. After a long service with the Savoy Dragoons, he was given regimental command in 1887 and, as a colonel, command of the 13th Cavalry Brigade in Stanislaus , Galicia, in 1894 .

In 1899 he was transferred to the 14th Infantry Troop Division in Pressburg as a commander and then assigned to the 5th Corps Command. He retired in March 1904.

On August 27, 1923 Viktor Kraus succumbed to his injuries in the Alservorstadtkrankenhaus, 8th district, in Vienna after a collision with an automobile. He was buried in the family crypt in Pardubitz, where his uncle Field Marshal Lieutenant Alfred Freiherr von Kraus rests.

Web links

• Prager Tagblatt February 20, 1880 - Austrian National Library
• The day August 30, 1923 - Austrian National Library
• Pilsner Tagblatt May 7, 1906 - Austrian National Library
• Death book Alservorstadtkrankenhaus 1923, Folio 215 - Matricula Online

literature

• Matt Kessler: Broudre genealogy (brother, Broudré, Broudre Edle von Goruszów) . In: Sudetendeutsche Familienforschung . ISSN  0943-8807 , Vol. 14 (2018), pp. 255-261.

Individual evidence

• Photography hrobového místa (Czech)