(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Johann Adametz
Born: 10 Apr 1879 in Vienna (Wien)
Died: 06 May 1963 in Vienna (Wien)
Promotions:
Leutnant (26 Oct 1899); Oberleutnant (01 May 1905); Hauptmann (01 May 1913); Major (01 Nov 1918); Oberstleutnant (01 Jan 1921); Oberst (20 May 1927); Generalmajor (Titel) (18 Jul 1929); Generalmajor (01 Feb 1941)
Career:
Entered the Austro-Hungarian Army as as Company-Officer in the 95th Infantry-Regiment (18 Aug 1898-01 Oct 1898)
Battalion-Adjutant in the 95th Infantry-Regiment (02 Oct 1898-30 Sep 1904)
Detached to War-School Wiener-Neustadt (01 Oct 1904-15 Jul 1906)
Subaltern-Officer in the 95th Infantry-Regiment (16 Jul 1906-19 Oct 1907)
Completing Infantry-Telegraph-Course in Tulln (20 Oct 1907-19 Aug 1908)
Instructor with the Infantry-Telegraph-Course in Tulln (20 Aug 1908-31 Jul 1913)
Company-Commander, later Technical Adjutant with the Telegraph-Regiment (01 Aug 1913-31 Jul 1914)
Telegraph-Advisor with the Staff of I. Corps (01 Aug 1914-17 Sep 1916)
Commandant of the Reserve-Officer-School and Technical Adjutant with the Telegraph-Replacement-Battalion St. Pölten (18 Sep 1916-02 Dec 1917)
Staff-Officer of Telegraph-Troops with the General-Staff of the 10th Army (03 Dec 1917-16 Nov 1918)
Personnel-Advisor with Station-Command St. Pölten and Liaison-Officer to the Provisional National Advisory in St. Pölten (17 Nov 1918-02 Feb 1919)
Group-Director of the Technical Group St. Pölten of the Telegraph-Command (03 Feb 1919-30 Nov 1920)
Advisor for Liaison-Affairs in the 5th Department of the Federal-Ministry for Army-Affairs (01 Dec 1920-15 Sep 1925)
Detached to the Army-Inspector (16 Sep 1925-31 Aug 1928)
Commander of the Telegraph-College, Army-College, Vienna (01 Sep 1928-31 Jul 1929)
Retired from Army-Service (31 Jul 1929)
Civil-Servant in the Austrian Federal Army, Director of the Decoding and Analysis Group in the Federal Ministry for State Defence (01 Jun 1936-14 Mar 1938)
Accepted into the Luftwaffe and Director of the Decoding and Analysing Group in the Staff of the Commander General of the Luftwaffe in Austria, later Air-Fleet 4 (15 Mar 1938-31 Aug 1939)
Commander of the Radio-Listening-department (III) in the 4th Air-Signals-Regiment and Leader of the Weather-Office, Radio-Listening-Office 4 with the Higher Signals-Leader in Air-Fleet-Command 4 (01 Sep 1939-31 Mar 1940)
Commander of the 4th Air-Signals-Regiment and leader of the Weather-Office 1 with the Higher Signals-Leader of Air-Fleet-Command 4 (01 Apr 1940-01 Jan 1941)
Signals-Leader in Air-District-Command XVII, Vienna and at the same time, was Commander of the 17th Air-District-Signals-Regiment (02 Jan 1941-18 Jun 1941)
Sick-Leave (18 Jun 1941-19 Oct 1941)
Granted Leave (19 Oct 1941-15 Dec 1941)
Retired (15 Dec 1941)

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