Najvyšší intendant slovenskej armády plukovník intendantstva Filip Cramer

Supreme Commissary of the Slovak Army, the Commissary Colonel Filip Cramer

Autor: KOZOLKA Jaroslav

KOZOLKA, Jaroslav: Najvyšší intendant slovenskej armády plukovník intendantstva Filip Cramer

KOZOLKA, Jaroslav: Supreme Commissary of the Slovak Army, the Commissary Colonel Filip Cramer.

Vojenská história, 24, 4, 2020, pp. 89-122

In his contribution, the author deals with the topic of the significant personality of the Slovak military power of 1939 — 1945, Filip Cramer. He came from Moravia, however, he was of the German nationality. F. Cramer’s military service reflected the complex and dramatic changes in the Central Europe of the first half of the 20th century. During his rich military career, he operated gradually as a soldier in three armies, originally as an officer ofthe Austro-Hungarian Army, as a part of which he participated in the World War 1. Later, he served as a higher commissary officer in the inter-war CS Army. In 1939-1945, he was a member of the Slovak armed forces and the commissary colonel. Here, he held the function of the highest army commissary, head of the Ministry of National Defence Commissary, managing the commissary provision of the whole army. After the World War 2, he was not taken to the CS Army due to his German nationality, was deprived of the CS citizenship and the rank of colonel. In spite of his German nationality, he did not surrender to the Nazi ideology and did not engage in favour of the Nazi or Hlinka´s Peoples Party ideology.  In his spirit, he was more of an Austrian monarchist. In the historical circles, he is considered rather as an ambiguous personality of the modern Slovak military history, in spite of not being a supporter of the Nazi Germany. After the suppression of Slovak National Uprising, he helped the families of officers, the Slovak National Uprising participants; he was monitored and in the autumn of 1944, an arrest warrant was also issued for his son, who was a Slovak officer.

Keywords: Military history. Slovakia. World War 2. Personal Data. Commissary colonel, Filip Cramer

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69809/vojhist.2020.24.4.7

Ročník: 24 | Číslo: 4/2020 | Stránky: 89-122