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GenObst. Karl Kirchbach auf Lauterbach - military career
Karl Kirchbach from Lauterbachu was born as the eldest son of FmLt Ferdinand Freiherra von Kirchbach on 20. of may in the year 1856 in the Gyöngyösu in Hungary. According to ancient family tradition, he was chosen track of the officer R-army. At the age of eleven years he entered the cadet school in St.Pölten. He graduated from the Theresian military academy in Wiener Neustadt and in 1875 was eliminated as a lieutenant inthe dragounského regiment no. 5. He graduated from the Vienna war school for officers of the general šábu and in the rank of captain of the general staff was officially scrapped in 1884. He graduated from regular active service in the unit, in his case at the dragounského regiment no. 9. In 1893 he married miss Rosa Carol Vay.
Day 1. November, 1893, he was promoted to the rank of major general staff and served on the staff of XV. army corps, then in the years 1895 and 1897, he served as chief of staff of the cavalry division in the Stanislau. In 1896 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel general staff, and two years later he served in the dragounského regiment no. 1. In April of the year 1899 is returned to the function of the chief of the general staff, this time with the III. army corps. A month later he was promoted to the rank of colonel general staff.
At his own request, is left to get rid of the function of chief of staff of the corps and became the commander of the dragounského regiment no. 5 in may, 1901. Three years later he became the commander of the 12. cavalry brigade, and on 1. November, 1905, he was appointed to the rank of major general. In this function, he replaced several posts of the commander of the brigades or divisions.
Karl Freiherr von Kirchbach was in 1910 appointed to the rank of field marshal and 23. in march 1911 he became inspector general of zeměbraneckého cavalry. The first of may 1914 he was appointed for his significant activity in the rank of general of cavalry and in the framework of the Danklovy army (commander his Even. army corps in Krakow, poland) entered the Great war that zúčastnl many battles on the eastern battlefield in the years 1914-1916. His corps was then transferred to the Tyrol as part of the 3. army.
In August 1916, Karl Freiherr von Kirchbach returned to the Russian front near Stanislau. Day 8. September 1916 Kirchbach took over command of the 7th. army. During the next Russian offensive held the sharp onslaught and on 1. November 1916 was Karl Freiherr Kirchbach from Lauterbachu promoted to the rank of was to hold. In march 1917 took command of 4. army but due to illness left her and the services returned in October 1917. In 1918 he became governor with a staff and headquarters in Odessa. Other diseases of the him back to active service in September 1918 in the function of the inspector of the R-U units on the western front.
He died in Scharnsteinu in lower Austria on 20. of may in the year 1939.
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