General der Infanterie Edmund Glaise von Horstenau Born: 27 Feb 1882 in Braunau, Inn Died: 20 Jul 1946 in Langwasser near Nuremberg (N�rnberg) (Suicide) Promotions:
Leutnant (18 Aug 1903); Oberleutnant (01 May 1909); Hauptmann (01 May 1913); Major (01 Nov 1917); Oberstleutnant (Titel) (23 Sep 1921); Oberst (Titel) (29 Sep 1934); Charakter als Generalmajor (30 Jun 1938); SA-Brigadef�hrer; Oberst z.V. (01 Feb 1941); Generalmajor z.V. (01 Mar 1941); Generalleutnant z.V. (01 Aug 1942); General der Infanterie z.V. (01 Sep 1943); SA-Gruppenf�hrer (1943) Austrian Court-Counsel: 21 May 1924 Austrian State-Councel: 01 Nov 1934 Honourary Doctorate: 1932, University of Munich Professor For Military Sciences: 00 Jul 1934, University of Vienna Member of the German Reichstag: 01 Apr 1938-00 May 1945 Career:
Entered Austrian Army Service (18 Aug 1903)
Passed Out of the Theresian Military Academy as Leutnant in the 4th Tyrol Kaiserj�ger-Regiment (18 Aug 1903-16 Oct 1907)
Detached to the War School in Vienna (16 Oct 1907-01 Nov 1910)
General-Staff-Officer in the Staff of the 6th Infantry-Troop-Brigade (01 Nov 1910-01 May 1913)
Advisor in the Austrian War Archives (01 May 1913-04 Aug 1914)
General-Staff-Officer in the General-Staff of the 11th Infantry-Troop-Division (04 Aug 1914-30 Sep 1914)
1st General-Staff-Officer of the 88th Tyrol Landessch�tzen-Brigade (30 Sep 1914-30 Nov 1914)
General-Staff-Officer in the General-Staff of the 1st Army (30 Nov 1914-11 Dec 1914)
General-Staff-Officer in the 5th Department of the War Ministry (11 Dec 1914-08 Jul 1915)
General-Staff-Officer and Advisor for Politics and Press in the Royal & Imperial (k.u.k.) Army High Command (08 Jul 1915-01 Nov 1917)
Austrian Liaison-Officer to the German Supreme Army Command and Military Plenipotentiary with the Peace Negotiations in Brest-Litovsk (01 Nov 1917-00 Oct 1918)
Military Expert in the Nationalities Advisory of the Austrian Republic (00 Oct 1918-05 Nov 1918)
Advisor in the War Archives (05 Nov 1918-06 Dec 1918)
Liaison-Officer of the State Office for Army Matters in the War Archives (06 Dec 1918-01 Feb 1919)
Director of the Department for Military Acts of State in the War Archives (01 Feb 1919-30 Sep 1920)
Retired from Army Service (30 Sep 1920)
Employed as Director of the Department for Military Acts of State in the War Archives (30 Sep 1920-17 Feb 1923)
Deputy Director of the War Archives (17 Feb 1923-01 Feb 1925)
General-State-Archiver and Director of the Austrian War Archives (01 Feb 1925-08 Nov 1939)
To Disposal of the Federal Ministry for State Defence (15 Jun 1934-11 Jul 1936)
Federal Minister without Portfolio (11 Jul 1936-03 Nov 1936)
Federal Minister of the Interior (03 Nov 1936-15 Feb 1938)
Entered into the Civil Service of the Austrian Federal Army (01 Sep 1936)
Federal Minister without Portfolio (15 Feb 1938-11 Mar 1938)
Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister without Portfolio (11 Mar 1938-15 Mar 1938)
Placed to Disposal (German Army) (15 Mar 1938)
Minister with Special Duties in the State Government of Austria, then Ostmark (15 Mar 1938-09 Nov 1939)
Liaison-Officer of OKW to Commander-in-Chief East, subsequently General with Special Duties in the General Wehrmacht Office, OKW, Assigned with the Duty of Inspector for the War Graves (09 Nov 1939-14 Apr 1941)
German General in Zagreb, later renamed German Plenipotentiary General in Croatia (14 Apr 1941-25 Sep 1944)
F�hrer-Reserve - Assigned with the Duty of Military Historiography of the South East (25 Sep 1944-05 May 1945)
In US Captivity (05 May 1945-20 Jul 1946)
Committed Suicide in US Captivity (20 Jul 1946)
Awards & Decorations:
- RK des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern: am 08.11.1944 als General der Infanterie z.V. und Deutscher Bevollm�chtigter General in Kroatien
- Deutsches Kreuz: am 08.03.1943 als Generalleutnant z.V. und Deutscher Bevollm�chtigter General in Kroatien
- 1914 EK I
- 1914 EK II
- k.u.k. �sterr. Milit�r-Jubil�ums-Kreuz 1848-1908
- k.u.k. �sterr. Bronzene Milit�r-Verdienst-Medaille (�Signum Laudis�) am Bande des Milit�r-Verdienstkreuzes
- k.u.k. �sterr. Orden der Eisernen Krone III. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration und Schwertern
- k.u.k. �sterr. Milit�r-Verdienstkreuz III. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration und Schwertern
- k.u.k. �sterr. Orden der Eisernen Krone III. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration und Schwertern (zum 2. ten Mal)
- Grossoffizierkreuz des Kgl. Bulgar. Milit�r-Verdienstordens
- Grosskomturkreuz des Kgl. Ungar. Verdienstordens
- Kommandeurkreuz II. Klasse des Kgl. Schwedischen Schwerterordens
- Ehrenkreuz f�r Frontk�mpfer
- Stern des Ehrenzeichens des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes
- Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern
- Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern
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