Walther Heydendorff

Walther Ernst von Auspitz (born October 30, 1888 in St. Pölten , † January 19, 1974 in Vienna ) was an Austrian k.uk officer , resistance fighter , writer and genealogist . From 1920 he took the name of his great-great-grandmother, a Conrad von Heydendorff . Hence his later name Walther Ernst Heydendorff , also Auspitz-Heydendorff .

biography

Walther Ernst von Auspitz was born as the son of the kk major general and writer Leopold Auspitz (1838–1907) and Henriette Eggenberg (around 1846–1895). His sister was Christine Auspitz (1878–1928), literary historian , his grandfather the Jewish surgeon and surgeon Moritz Auspitz (1803–1880).

Walter attended the Theresian Military Academy until 1908 , his military career ended on December 1, 1920 with his retirement. He took the name Heydendorff because the name Auspitz was of Jewish origin, which already endangered him in the 1920s.

From 1922 he was a regular player - Major Walter Heyden Dorff member of the Vienna Heritage Society , worked in the private sector and was assistant at the General Staff of Austria- Hungary's last war in the war archive . In January 1934 it was under the 2nd Regiment of the Home Guard , before convening up to March 1938 the Austrian army , he was spared. After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich , he was a leading member of the resistance around Hans Sidonius Becker in the resistance organization O5 . At the end of the Second World War , on May 1, 1945, he became President of the Army Office, Department 1, the leadership department of the State Chancellery until it was dissolved. At the end of the war, he was particularly concerned with information for returnees and gave radio lectures on Vienna radio . From January 8, 1946, he was again employed in the war archives, before he worked as an archivist in the Vienna House, Court and State Archives from 1950 to 1953 . He resigned as Councilor and was from 1957 Doctor of Philosophy . He wrote various historical treatises and published a genealogical work on his ancestors.

Walter Heydendorff was buried on February 1, 1974 in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall in the family grave site MH / 429, together with his wife Hilda Bernhardine (* around 1889; † December 1966).

Works

• Collaboration with: Austria-Hungary's Last War 1914–1918 Volumes I – IV Verlag der Militärwissenschaftlichen Mitteilungen, Vienna 1933–1939
• Austria in the history lie. The root of the lie . Single sheet print Vienna 1945, (printed radio lecture from August 4, 1945)
• Sayings about Austria and Prussia from two centuries , Vienna 1945, (printed radio lecture from September 1, 1945)
• Austria and Prussia as reflected in the Austrian view of history , Obelisk-Verlag Vienna 1947
• Carnuntum. History and problems of the legionary forts and the civil town , Obelisk-Verlag 1947
• The princes and barons of Eggenberg and their ancestors , Verlag Styria Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1965
• Front Austria in the Thirty Years' War. The loss of the foreland on the Rhine and the attempts to regain them. 1639-1648 . MÖStA Volume 13, 1960; Volume 12, 1959
• Correspondence of Field Marshal Octavio Piccolomini in the files of the Vienna House, Court and State Archives . MÖStA Volume 14, 1961
• The war files in the house, court and state archives . MÖStA Volume 8, 1955; Volume 6, 1953; Volume 5, 1952; Volume 4, 1951

literature

• A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . 3 volumes, Böhlau 2005, ISBN 978-3-205-77316-0 (Volume 1: KuK General Staff Officer and Historian; Volume 2: Minister in the corporate state and General in the OKW; Volume 3: German Plenipotentiary General in Croatia and witness to the fall of the " Millennial Empire ")

swell

• Peter Broucek : Minister in the State State and General in the OKW , Volume 2, Böhlau Verlag 1983, ISBN 978-3-205-08743-4 (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria, Ed. Brigitte Mazohl, Volume 70), p. 42 , P. 128
• Peter Broucek, Kurt Peball: History of Austrian Military Historiography , Böhlau, 2000, ISBN 3-412-05700-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erika Weinzierl , Rudolf G. Ardelt , Wolfgang Huber, Anton Staudinger : Suppression and Emancipation: Festschrift for Erika Weinzierl on her 60th birthday. Geyer Edition, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85090-119-X , pp. 70ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Broucek (Ed.): Theodor Ritter von Zeynek: An officer in the General Staff Corps remembers. Opava - Vienna - Russian Front - Army High Command 1916–1918. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 3-205-78149-X , p. 60.
3. ^ The Vienna Army Office 1945 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.7 MB) UOG Salzburg, bulletin 02/08, p. 18. 
4. ↑ Mösta releases the Austrian State Archives 1 - 15 releases the Austrian State Archives (Mösta). Ed. General Directorate of the Austrian State Archives.
5. ^ Walter Ernst Heydendorff in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at.