With 35 confirmed successes in aerial combat, Godwin Brumowski was considered the most successful fighter pilot in the Hungarian-Austrian Monarchy. The air base in Langenlebarn, Lower Austria, was named after him. But now they are looking for another name. The reason: Brumowski’s role during the fighting in February 1934.
During the fighting between the Schutzbund, the armed wing of the Social Democratic Party, and the forces of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß, who later founded an authoritarian “corporate state” after eliminating parliament, Brumowski carried out an airstrike on the controversial Goethehof in Vienna. For this reason, the name of the federal army base at Tulln, which has existed since 1967, has long been considered ‘historically questionable’.
According to a report in Tuesday’s Ö1 “Mittagsjournal,” the Military Historical Monuments Commission is now in favor of a different name and the Army Department has given its general approval. A three-way proposal for the new name is then developed.
Concerns about the airport code change have been addressed
According to the chairman of the committee, Dieter Binder, a deserving representative of the Federal Army of the Second Republic should be the future namesake. So far the project has been delayed by concerns within the armed forces.
Above all, attention was drawn to a possible need to change the relevant flight maps. These concerns have now been dispelled by the committee, as Binder explained in an interview with ORF radio. The international airport code for the air base – LOXT – is “completely separate” from the actual name and will be retained anyway. From the point of view of the monuments committee, nothing prevents a name change.
Source: Krone
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