!!!Glaise-Horstenau, Edmund

Glaise-Horstenau, Edmund, b. Braunau (Upper Austria), Feb. 27, 1882, 
d. Langwasser military camp (near Nuremberg, Germany), 
July 20, 1946. Officer, Pan-German historian and politician. From 
1910 on the general staff, from 1915-1918 headed the press department 
of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (war correspondent), then 
at the Austrian War Archives (director from 1925-1938). 1934 member of 
the state council, from 1936-1938 Minister (without portfolio, and of 
the Interior, respectively) in the cabinet of Schuschnigg, from March 
11 to 13, 1938 vice chancellor in the cabinet of Seyss-Inquart, from 
1941-1944 authorised German general in Croatia, expressed opposition 
to the atrocities of the Ustasa.

!Works
Die Katastrophe, 1928; Franz Josephs Weggefaehrte, 1930; 
Oesterreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg, 7 vols., 1931-1935 (publ.).

!Literature
P. Broucek, Ein General im Zwielicht. Die Erinnerungen 
E. G.-H., 3 vols., 1980-1988.



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