In the history of public life, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf as Field Marshal of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1852-1925).
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was born at Penzing in 1852. His recorded nationality is Austria. He was educated at Theresian Military Academy and philosophy faculty of the German university of Prague.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
The record gives his occupations as aristocrat, painter and military officer.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
His work was formally recognised with the Pour le Mérite, Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa and Military Merit Cross.
That the work was done from Austria matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf died in 1925 at the age of 73. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Educated at Theresian Military Academy and philosophy faculty of the German university of Prague
- Worked as aristocrat, painter and military officer
