Gustav von Myrdacz
| Gustav von Myrdacz | |
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| Born |
July 12, 1874 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | July 11, 1945 (aged 70) Tirana, Albania |
| Allegiance |
 Austro-Hungarian Empire Albanian Kingdom
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| Rank | Division General |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II |
| Spouse(s) | Ida (née Heller-Fiedler) |
Gustav von Myrdacz (born 12 July 1874 in Vienna; died 11 July 1945 in Tirana) was an Austrian noble who was instrumental in organising the Royal Albanian Army from the early 1920s to 1945. He was referred in Albania as Gustav Mirdashi.
Gustav von Myrdacz was born in Vienna on 11 July 1874 to a German-speaking Silesian noble family. His father, Paul von Myrdacz (4 May 1847-7 July 1930), was born in Konská (Třinec) and pursued a career as a military doctor in the Austria-Hungary army. Little is known of his mother, Emma Zettl. As such Dr Paul von Myrdacz had been involved in the occupation of Bosnia in 1878 and spent some time there in the 1880s.
Gustav von Myrdacz grew up in the multi-lingual, multi-cultural environment of the late Habsburg empire and trained to become a military engineer. He attended high school in Vienna and the Theresian Military Academy (Theresianischen Militärakademie) in Wiener Neustadt and in 1897 was posted to the Habsburg Austrian Military Police Battalion Number 32 in Galicia. Over 1901-03 he attended the military school of the General Staff College (Kriegsschule der Generalstabsakademie) and served in various infantry brigades as a staff officer after 1904. From 1909 he was a tactical instructor at the technical military academy (Technischen Militärakademie) in Mödling.
When World War I began in 1914. Von Myrdacz served as an officer in Sarajevo. In December 1915 he was attached to the General Division of the XIX. Corps under General Ignaz Trollmann. Here he helped Austria conquer and occupy Serbia and enter northern Albania to engage Italian soldiers.
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