(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalleutnant Joseph Brauner (von Haydringen)
Born: 04 Oct 1886 in Tulln, Lower Austria (Niederösterreich)
Died: 27 Apr 1954 in Camp Perov-Uralsk, USSR
Promotions:
Leutnant (18 Aug 1907); Oberleutnant (01 Nov 1912); Hauptmann (01 Jul 1915); Major (Titel) (01 Jan 1921); Stabs-Hauptmann (01 Mar 1923); Major (03 Jul 1923); Oberstleutnant (15 Dec 1930); Oberst (10 Nov 1933); Generalmajor (01 Apr 1939); Generalleutnant (01 Mar 1941)
Career:
Entered Austrian Army Service (18 Aug 1907)
Leutnant in the 30th Infantry-Regiment (18 Aug 1907-01 Sep 1909)
Training-Officer and Instructor at the Reserve-Officers-School of the 30th Infantry-Regiment (01 Sep 1909-01 Jun 1912)
Acting-General-Staff-Officers and Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the 22nd Infantry-Brigade (01 Jun 1912-01 Nov 1912)
Transferred into the 58th Infantry-Regiment and Detached as Training-Officer and Instructor at the Reserve-Officers-School of the 41st Infantry-Regiment (01 Nov 1912-01 Mar 1914)
Company-Commander in the II. Battalion of the 58th Infantry-Regiment (01 Mar 1914-01 Aug 1914)
Commandant of the Alarm-Garrison of the Bridge-Security in Nizniow on the Dnjestr (01 Aug 1914-14 Aug 1914)
Commander of the Reconnaissance-Battalion and Company-Officer in the 58th Infantry-Regiment (14 Aug 1914-08 Sep 1914)
Company-Commander in the 58th Infantry-Regiment (08 Sep 1914-23 Nov 1914)
Taken ill, in hospital (23 Nov 1914-20 Jan 1915)
Instructor, later Commandant, of a Reserve-Officers-School in the Area of the XI. Military-Command (20 Jan 1915-30 Apr 1915)
Company-Commander in the 58th Infantry-Regiment (30 Apr 1915-01 Jul 1915)
Battalion-Commander in the 58th Infantry-Regiment (01 Jul 1915-02 Oct 1915)
Liaison-Officer of the 11th Division to different Staffs and Liaison-Officer to the I. Prussian Army-Corps (02 Oct 1915-01 Jan 1916)
General-Staff-Officer in the 21st Infantry-Brigade-Command (01 Jan 1916-01 Mar 1916)
Chief Supply Officer (Ib) in the Staff of the 11th Infantry-Division (01 Mar 1916-27 Dec 1916)
Assigned to the General-Staff and Chief of Operations (Ia) of the 5th Mountain-Brigade (27 Dec 1916-01 May 1918)
Detached for 2 months as Intelligence-Officer to the Staff of the 58th Infantry-Division (01 Dec 1917)
General-Staff-Officer of the 115th Infantry-Brigade (01 May 1918-01 Dec 1918)
In the Replacement-Battalion of the 24th Rifle-Regiment, Assigned to the Homecoming-Processing-Office in the Liquidating War-Ministry (01 Dec 1918-01 Feb 1919)
Detached to the Austrian Plenipotentiary in the Prussian War-Ministry, Berlin (01 Feb 1919-01 Jan 1920)
Assigned to the Replacement-Cadre of the 21st Field-Jäger-Battalion of the Police in Vienna (01 Jan 1920-01 May 1920)
Detached to Processing-Work in the Officers-Honour-Roll, Vienna (01 May 1920-27 Aug 1920)
Accepted into the Austrian Federal-Army and Assigned to the 3rd Brigade-Command, St. Pölten (27 Aug 1920-01 Sep 1921)
Intelligence-Officer (Ic) with the Staff of the 3rd Brigade-Command (01 Sep 1921-01 Nov 1922)
Transferred into the 6th Infantry-Regiment (01 Nov 1922-01 Dec 1922)
Transferred back into the 3rd Brigade-Command (01 Dec 1922-31 Aug 1923)
At the same time, Instruction and Training Officer with the Infantry-Instruction-Battalion on the Troop-Exercise-Grounds Bruckneudorf (01 May 1923-31 Aug 1923)
Company-Commander in the 6th Infantry-Regiment (01 Feb 1926-01 Aug 1928)
Transferred to the Army-Administration-Office Lower Austria and Detached for Service in the War-Archives in Vienna as an Advisor on the General-Staff 1914/1918 (01 Aug 1928-01 Aug 1932)
Transferred to the 2nd Brigade-Command, while retaining his position at the War-Archives (01 Aug 1932-01 Nov 1933)
Department-Chief in the Federal Ministry for Army Matters, Organisations-Department (01 Nov 1933-20 Jul 1938)
Transferred into the 6th Infantry-Regiment (20 Jul 1938-01 Aug 1938)
Transferred into the German Army (15 Mar 1938)
Commander of the 132nd Infantry-Regiment (01 Aug 1938-18 Nov 1939)
Führer-Reserve OKH - Detached to the Staff of Commener-in-Chief East as Director of Investigation-Service (18 Nov 1939-15 Feb 1940)
Chief of the General Staff of Border-Section South (15 Feb 1940-14 May 1940)
Chief of Staff of the Military-Commander in General-Government (14 May 1940-21 May 1941)
Führer-Reserve OKH (21 May 1941-26 Jun 1941)
Commander of the 101st Light Division (26 Jun 1941-15 Apr 1942)
Führer-Reserve OKH (15 Apr 1942-15 Aug 1942)
Commander of the 187th Reserve-Division (15 Aug 1942-01 Jan 1944)
Commander of the 42nd Jäger-Division (01 Jan 1944-26 Apr 1944)
Führer-Reserve OKH (26 Apr 1944-13 May 1944)
Commandant of Rear Army Area 531 (13 May 1944-10 May 1945)
In Soviet Captivity (10 May 1945-27 Apr 1954)
Died in Captivity (27 Apr 1954)

Awards & Decorations
- Deutsches Kreuz in Gold: am 23.01.1942 als Generalleutnant und Kommandeur der 101. leichten Division
- 1914 EK II
- k.u.k. Österr. Militär-Jubiläums-Kreuz 1848-1908
- k.u.k. Österr. Erinnerungs-Kreuz 1912/1913
- k.u.k. Österr. Orden der Eisernen Krone III. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration und Schwertern
- k.u.k. Österr. Militär-Verdienstkreuz III. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration und Schwertern
- k.u.k. Österr. Bronzene Militär-Verdienst-Medaille (“Signum Laudis”) am Bande des Militär-Verdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern
- k.u.k. Österr. Silberne Militär-Verdienst-Medaille (“Signum Laudis”) am Bande des Militär-Verdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern
- k.u.k. Österr. Karl-Truppenkreuz
- Österr. Kriegs-Erinnerungs-Medaille mit Schwertern
- Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- 1939 EK I
- Spange zum EK II
- Medaille “Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/1942”
- Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern


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