A few days ago, retired Brigadier Rolf M. Urrisk-Obertynski presented his latest publication entitled “Vienna 2000 Years Garrison City – XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXII and XXIII” in the City Senate meeting room of Vienna City Hall to mark the anniversaries of 60 years of the Vienna Military Command, 340 years of the Entsatz von Wien and 215 years of the Battle of Aspern.
Second part of the fifth volume
This work, published by Weishaupt Verlag, is the second part of the fifth volume of the documentation series and deals with objects of historical or current military relevance in the districts of Ottakring, Hernals, Währing, Döbling, Floridsdorf, Donaustadt and Liesing. Urrisk-Obertynski describes, among other things, barracks, former air raid shelters, military hospitals and military offices as well as works of art, statues, monuments, memorial stones and plaques and numerous other objects of military historical relevance. https://militaeraktuell.at/kaernten-spatenstich-fuer-grosskaserne-villach/ Thanks from Minister Klaudia Tanner
“I would like to thank Brigadier Urrisk-Obertynski for taking on an important task – not only for posterity, but also for us. It is a huge amount of work to research and compile all of this and we now have the chance to pick up the books and see many things in Vienna with greater knowledge and with different eyes.” Vienna’s military commander, Brigadier General Kurt Wagner, also expressed his thanks: “The author has managed to top himself. At 488 pages, this very detailed book with its excellent pictures is also the most comprehensive in the series. I am particularly grateful that the 60-year history of the Vienna Military Command and the 340th anniversary of the Battle of Kahlenberg have been given special consideration.”
Brigadier General in Ruhe Rolf M. Urrisk-Obertynski
Born in 1947, he graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in 1972 (“Payer-Weyprecht” class). He graduated with a master’s degree in “National Defense – Higher Leadership” and “Political and Communication Sciences”. Urrisk-Obertynski was head of the G3 department at the Military Command Vienna and Tyrol as well as the training department at the Federal Ministry of Defense. As head of the “50 Years of the Austrian Armed Forces” project for many years and a part-time freelance journalist and specialist author in the fields of military ethics, Austrian military history and security policy, he was awarded the professional title of professor. Documentary series “Vienna 2000Years Garrison City”
In the first two volumes of his series “Vienna 2000 Years Garrison City”, which now comprises eight parts, the author describes the entire military history of the garrison city of Vienna from the XV Roman Legion to the Military Patrol and Military Police Command. Volume three deals with objects of military relevance exclusively in Vienna’s 1st district – Innere Stadt. In volumes four and five (each published in two parts due to the wealth of information), the description of such objects is extended to the remaining districts of Vienna and completed with yesterday’s presentation for the whole city. Volume six deals with the organization of the Allied Council, the military police of the four occupying powers and the life of the soldiers in the garrison city of Vienna.
