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Theodor Körner, Edler von Siegringen (German pronunciation: [ˈteːoˌdoːɐ̯ ˈkœʁnɐ] ; 23 April 1873 – 4 January 1957) was an Austrian military officer and statesman of the Socialist Party of Austria. He served as the president of Austria from 1951 to 1957 and as the mayor of Vienna from 1945 to 1951.
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Theodor Körner, Edler von Siegringen (German pronunciation: [ˈteːoˌdoːɐ̯ ˈkœʁnɐ] ; 23 April 1873 – 4 January 1957) was an Austrian military officer and statesman of the Socialist Party of Austria. He served as the president of Austria from 1951 to 1957 and as the mayor of Vienna from 1945 to 1951.
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Early life As son of an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, he was born in Újszőny, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Komárom, Hungary), as the second child of an Artillery Captain, later promoted to major Theodor Karl Körner, Edler von Siegringen (1828-1917) and his wife, Karoline Fousek (1849–1929). He had one older sister, Rosa Antonia (b. 1872) and one younger brother Richard (1874-1915), who later became lieutenant colonel in the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces during World War I. He was great nephew of poet Theodor Körner and was distantly related to Bertha von Suttner, through her mother, Sophie Wilhelmine von Körner (1815-1884), who was also related to the poet.
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Biography In 1883–1888, Körner lived in Chrastava, where his father was born, and attended the elementary school there. From 1888, he attended the military school in Hranice, graduated at the head of his class as a pioneer from the Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy, and became lieutenant in 1894. He served as an officer in Agram (today Zagreb, Croatia) and was promoted to major in 1904, in which year he became a member of the Austrian staff. During World War I, he was an active commander on the Italian front. He resigned from his military career in 1924 as a General. Always interested in politics, he joined the Social Democrats and became a member of parliament in 1924. He served as Chairman of the Federal Council of Austria between December 1933 and February 1934. Körner was a member of the Technischer Ausschuss (Technical Committee) of the Republikanischer Schutzbund and, alongside Alexander Eifler, considered one of its two leading military strategists. As opposed to Eifler, who favored a more streamlined and classic military organization for the Social-Democratic paramilitary, Körner proposed a strategic outline utilizing guerilla warfare and mass action in the case of a civil war. Eifler was eventually able…
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Awards Honorary Doctorate at the Vienna University of Technology (1945)
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Honorary citizen of Vienna city (1948) Grand Cross special class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1956)
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Sources Ilona Duczynska: (Hrsg. und kommentiert): Theodor Körner. Auf Vorposten. Ausgewählte Schriften 1928 - 1938. Europaverlag, Wien, 1977, ISBN 3-203-50617-3 Thea Leitner: Körner aus der Nähe. Danubia Verlag, Wien, 1951. Eric C. Kollman: Militär und Politik. VERL.DF.GESCH.U.POL., Wien, 1973. Thea Leitner: Hühnerstall und Nobelball. 1938–1955. Leben in Krieg und Frieden. Ueberreuter, Wien, 2004, ISBN 3-8000-3927-3
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Biographie in der Wiener Zeitung Theodor Körner (Austrian politician) in Austria-Forum (in German)
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Theodor Körner at Find a Grave The Voice of Theodor Körner (in German) from the archive of the Österreichische Mediathek