Austrian Field Marshal

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Austrian Field Marshal

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Post by Galahad » 10 Apr 2002, 17:13

I'm not sure what section this question belongs in, so I'm sticking it here, on general principles.
I've read that one of the Jewish men killed in the death camps had been a Field Marshal in the Royal & Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army. But I've been unable to find his name.
Does anyone know who this person is? Or is this one of the wars' many myths?

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Post by michael mills » 11 Apr 2002, 04:25

I believe it was Gerstein who, in the description of his visit to Belzec, stated that Wirth showed him a couple of Jewish prisoners there and claimed that one had been a senior officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army.


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Post by Glenn2438 » 27 Aug 2002, 17:44

It is certainly a myth that any Austro-Hungarian Field Marshals died as a result of the persecutions of the Jewish people during the 2nd World War. In fact none of the WW1 Field Marshals were Jewish and only Erhherzog Eugen, Erzherzog Joseph and Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli were still alive during the 2nd World War (Böhm-Ermolli, who was a Charakter or brevet Field Marshal in the German Army died in December 1941).

The most likely candidate was the retired Feldmarschalleutnant (Lieutenant General) Johann Friedländer, who was Jewish and is reported in Erwin A Schmidl's "Jews in the Habsburg Armed Forces" to have died in a concentration camp during the war.

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Post by Luca » 29 Aug 2002, 00:50

Probable during the last year of war..correct?

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Austro-Hungarian Field Marshals 1848-1918

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Post by Ken McCanliss » 29 Aug 2002, 18:52

For biographies and pictures of the Field Marshals of Austria-Hungary in WWI, go to:

http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/marshals.htm

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Post by AJK » 09 Sep 2002, 23:23

It was indeed retired Feldmarschalleutnant Johann Friedländer who was being referred to. Friedländer did not reach this rank during the WWI period, but as an officer of the post-war army of the Austrian Republic. He died in the camps in 1945 - I do not know the exact date.

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