!!!Eugen, Erzherzog von Österreich

b. Židlochovice, Czech Republic (then Gross Seelowitz), May 21, 1863, 
d. Meran/Merano, (South Tyrol), Dec. 30, 1954, field marshal (1916); 
grandson of Archduke  Karl. As the last (Knight) Grand Master of the  
Teutonic Order (1894-1923), he transformed it into a purely clerical 
order in 1929. 1914 commander of the 5th Army (Balkans), 1915 and 
19171918 commander at the south-west front, 1916/1917 of the Tyrolean 
Army Group; 1919-1934 lived in Switzerland, then in Gumpoldskirchen, 
Vienna and Innsbruck.

!Literature
Z. Schildenfeld, Erzhzg. E., 1963.



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