Vincent de Fox

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Coat of arms of Vinzenz Freiherrn von Fox (1918)

Vinzenz Fox , from 1918 to 1919 Freiherr von Fox (born April 1, 1859 in Bielitz, Silesia, today Bielsko-Biała in Poland , † July 15, 1931 in Pramet , Upper Austria ) was an Austro-Hungarian general and division and corps commander in Course of the First World War .

Youth and education

Vinzenz Josef Hugo Fox was born as the son of a civil civil servant. He attended secondary school in Opava and graduated from the infantry cadet school in Vienna on October 7, 1877. On May 1, 1880, he was promoted to lieutenant . Between 1883 and 1885 he graduated from the kuk war school in Vienna with very good success and in 1894 passed the examination to become a major in the general staff .

Career and First World War

In 1901 he was promoted to colonel in the general staff and in May 1907 as commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade to major general. In 1910 he was appointed commander of the 7th Infantry Troop Division and on May 7, 1911 he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant . In 1914, Fox was appointed Inspector General of Corps Officers Schools. In September 1914, he succeeded FML Njegovan as the commander of the 35th Infantry Division in Galicia , with whom he took part in the fighting at Chyrów , Wulka , Prusiecka and Białobrzegi as part of the 2nd Army . End of January 1915 he was appointed commander of the in Srem lying XV. Corps appointed, on May 5, 1915 he was promoted to General of the Infantry . After the declaration of war by Italy, the XV. Corps relocated to the Isonzo as part of the reactivated Austro-Hungarian 5th Army and deployed in the Tolmein area during the first Isonzo battles. On December 4, 1915, by the highest resolution, Fox was retired at his request .

Private life

During his life, Fox lived in Linz-Urfahr, Pichlerstrasse 30, but had the homeland permit in Pramet , Ried im Innkreis district , Upper Austria . He died in 1931 in house Pramet No. 5 and, according to information in the Pramet parish's death register, was buried in the family crypt in the St. Barbara cemetery in Linz. This tomb was abandoned in 1998 and the crypt has since been re-occupied.

family

House Pramet No. 5, where Fox died

With his wife Elisabeth Enzinger († March 28, 1920), from Pramet , Vincent von Fox had three daughters. One of them, Elisabeth Maria Theresia (* 1893), married the landowner in Pramet Franz Xaver Julius Enzinger (* 1892) in Scheibbs , Lower Austria on June 6, 1920 .

Vincent de Fox's brother was the kuk dubbed Major General in retirement William Fox (1855-1916), which to Brno in Moravia on 31 October 1889, Marie Mathilde Karoline Baroness had married Pfeiffer of Ehrenstein Rohmann (* 1871).

Awards

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  • Registries of the diocese of St. Pölten, Scheibbs parish, marriage book 1876–1929, p. 319
  • Parish registers of the diocese of St. Polten, Krems-St. Veit, death book 1912–1918, p. 185
  • Upper Austrian regional archive, parish registers, parish Linz-St. Matthias, Baptism Book 1893 Volume IX, p. 3978
  • Upper Austrian regional archive, parish registers, Parish Pramet, deaths duplicates 1931, p. 210 ( online )
  • ÖStA Vienna, AVA, AA, diploma transcripts 1918
  • ÖStA Vienna, HHStA, KK, lecture files, No. 579/1918
  • Österreichische Landzeitung of March 30, 1916, p. 2 and of December 17, 1917, p. 2
  • Gothaisch genealogical paperback of the Freiherrliche Häuser, born 1889–1941 (Pfeiffer von Ehrenstein-Rohmann family)
  • Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916-1921) , Graz 2016, p. 126 ( ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 ).

Web links

  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918 , p. 47 PDF
  • Portrait photo of Vincent de Fox

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement from the cemetery administration of St. Barbara-Friedhof Linz, dated October 10, 2017.