Alfred Krauss (officer) place of birth Zadar
Biography
Family
Alfred Krauss was born in Zadar, the son of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff Doctor Dr. med. Franz Krauss (1824–1905) and his wife Maria Rosalia (née Deixler; 1841–85).  His younger brother Rudolf Krauss (1863–1943) also achieved the rank of general of the infantry during the First World War. On 6 February 1894 Alfred Krauss married in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Graz Ida Gysela Weeber (born 26 January 1868 in Raab ; died 13 May 1939 in Vienna), with whom he had two sons, one of them was the later well-known organologist Egon Krauss. Alfred and Ida Krauss were buried in the evangelical cemetery in Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee in a high grave. The grave slab is adorned with a soaring eagle holding an oak wreath in its claws.
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