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[Kriegsmarine Großadmiral]

It's not Joseph Kraus or Dragutin Prica.

Some more info about the unknown Konteradmiral:

Born 18.05.1867
Died 12.11.1935

From 20.06. until 31.10.1918 Hafenadmiral im Golf von Cattaro

[AJK]

Vitus von Vončina

[Kriegsmarine Großadmiral]

Vitus von Vončina

Correct, over to you.

[AJK]

Born 18 Nov 1857, died 21 Feb 1938, Governor-General of Galicia at the end of the war.

AJK

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[AJK]

No guesses? Here's a clue: his final rank was Generaloberst.

AJK

[Waleed Y. Majeed]

Karl Georg Huyn

Waleed

[AJK]

Correct, Waleed! Over to you for the next question.

AJK

[Jeromos Istvan Beko]

Great Grandpa's registration card says he was born in Borond, Hungary, in 1880. Trying to find on a map, but I believe it might now be *gone* and now a part of Romania, since the aftermath-deals of the end of WWI. Any idea what city/burg in Romania (or Hungary) is now called the place of his birth?

Thanks. Jeromos Istvan Beko

[GregSingh]

Looks like you are in the wrong section of the Forum. It is a quiz thread.
Anyway, to answer your question, it could be Börönd in Hungary:
https://geographic.org/geographic_names ... &c=hungary

[paulus45]

next one:
Ing., Artillerie, *1867 in Suben, OÖ

regards,
paulus

[Frech]

I fear he is familiar:

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=41125&p=2239433&hi ... a#p2239416

The problem is we are all running out new pics.

Regards

Christian

[paulus45]

sorry, btw
I'm not sure he got promoted to GM. All I found was:
1917: Artillery general of Section III of Army Group GO von Boroević as colonel with major general fees
(Artilleriegeneral des Abschnittes III der Heeresgruppe GO von Boroević als Oberst mit Generalmajor-Gebühren (gewährt bis zur Enthebung vom Kommando oder bis zum ersten Demobilisierungstag))

1921: after retirement with an Oberst pension and a complaint against it at the Administrative Court, the major general pension is awarded.
(nach Pensionierung mit Oberst-Pension und Beschwerde dagegen beim Verwaltungsgerichtshof erfolgt die Zuerkennung der Generalmajor-Pension (durch den Zusammenbruch der Monarchie erfolgte weder Enthebung noch Demobilisierung))

curious, isn't it?

regards,
paulus

[Frech]

sorry, btw
I'm not sure he got promoted to GM. All I found was:
1917: Artillery general of Section III of Army Group GO von Boroević as colonel with major general fees
(Artilleriegeneral des Abschnittes III der Heeresgruppe GO von Boroević als Oberst mit Generalmajor-Gebühren (gewährt bis zur Enthebung vom Kommando oder bis zum ersten Demobilisierungstag))

1921: after retirement with an Oberst pension and a complaint against it at the Administrative Court, the major general pension is awarded.
(nach Pensionierung mit Oberst-Pension und Beschwerde dagegen beim Verwaltungsgerichtshof erfolgt die Zuerkennung der Generalmajor-Pension (durch den Zusammenbruch der Monarchie erfolgte weder Enthebung noch Demobilisierung))

curious, isn't it?

regards,
paulus

Janecka was promoted to Generalmajor:

18.05.1921 Generalmajor d.R. (Titel u. Charakter)

Source:
VBl. 30/1921 v. 08.06.1921, Entschl. v. 18.05.1921, der Bundespräs. hat den Titel verliehen d.R.; Nr. 228, Höhere Charakterisierungen. S. 291

It´s quite interesting that he got "Titel UND Charakter" which was a rare issue. Most of them just received just "Titel".

Regards

Christian

[paulus45]

Once again I can only say thank you.

regards,
paulus

[paulus45]

not seen here.
born 1858 in Mainz;
colonel and regimental commander at the beginning of the war;
GM 1915; FML (T&C) 1918

regards,
paulus