Rudolf von Brudermann
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Allegiance | Austro-Hungarian Army |
Years of service | 1869–1878, 1879–1914 |
Rank | General of the cavalry |
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Battles/wars | World War I |
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Relations | Adolf von Brudermann (brother) |
Rudolf Nikolaus Ritter
Personal life
Brudermann was a son of Generalmajor (
Military career
Brudermann began his training at the Kadettenanstalt (
On 1 January 1879, Brudermann returned to active service and was assigned to the Imperial and Royal Uhlan Regiment "Knights of Brudermann" No. 1. From 1880 to 1884 he acted as an instructor in the cavalry cadet school at Mährisch-Weißkirchen in Moravia and was then assigned to Imperial and Royal Dragoon Regiment "Prince to Windisch-Graetz" No. 14. While with this regiment, he received promotions to major on 1 November 1885 and to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) on 1 November 1888. He took over command of the regiment on 5 April 1891 and was promoted to Oberst (colonel) on 1 November 1891. He received the Order of the Iron Crown Third Class in March 1895, a standard award for three years of satisfactory service in command of a regiment.
In March 1897 Brudermann took command of the 15th Cavalry
In July 1906, Brudermann took over the position of Imperial and Royal General Inspector of Cavalry, and he was promoted to General der Kavallerie (general of the cavalry) on 26 April 1907. While in this position, he received the honorary title of Oberstinhaber (colonel-proprietor) of Uhlan Regiment No. 1 in February 1907 and was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown 1st Class in August 1908.
Brudermann was an enthusiastic cavalry commander who had never seen combat and whose military experience was limited to maneuvers and what he had read in field manuals. As general inspector of cavalry, he was determined to retain the tactics and ethos of an earlier era even as warfare changed around him in the late 19th and early 20th century. He prevented any modernization of the cavalry force, rejecting all new weapons such as
World War I
On the eve of
During the
Later life
Brudermann spent his retirement in Vienna. After the conclusion of World War I in 1918, and particularly after about 1930, his military mistakes and failures were largely forgotten in the First Austrian Republic, and he was a popular figure when he appeared in uniform at veterans events. In 1936, he was elected honorary president of the Vereinigung Alt Neustadt (Old Neustadt Association), the association of veterans from the Theresian Military Academy. Together with his wife, he is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in Vienna.
Awards and honors
Austro-Hungarian
- Order of the Iron CrownThird Class (March 1895)
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (April 1904)
- Order of the Iron Crown First Class (August 1908)
Foreign
- Grand Cross of the Albert Order (Kingdom of Saxony, July 1905)
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (United Kingdom, February 1908)
- Order of the Crown (Kingdom of Württemberg, October 1908)
- Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword (Sweden, February 1909)
- Order of the Red Eagle (Kingdom of Prussia, October 1909)
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