The soldiers of the Monarchy knew the names of only a few of the German generals, therefore it was rarely worth making a badge with their portrait. The name Hermann [ … ]
Category: Generals and personalities
Erich von Ludendorff
Erich von Ludendorff was one of the most successful and recognized military leaders of the German Empire during the Great War. He was born in Prussia near Posen (now Poznan) [ … ]
General Max v. Gallwitz
General Max von Gallwitz has already appeared in a post here. He was the commander of the German 11th Army, which cooperated closely with the Monarchy’s army on the Eastern [ … ]
Colonel Karl Glöckner in IR 23
He was born on December 31, 1871, graduated from the Military Academy in Vienna in 1893 and from the Kriegsschule in Vienna in 1898. He was promoted to colonel in [ … ]
Alexander von Linsingen
He was a Prussian general, born in 1850 in Hildesheim and died in 1935 in Hanover. He began his military career in 1868 and before the Great War advanced to [ … ]
Tsar Ferdinand 1
In the Balkan wars, ever increasing areas of the declining Turkish Empire became independent in the second half of the 1800s. Bulgaria was like that too. In the new states, [ … ]
Zita
She came from the Parma branch of the Bourbon family and was born in 1892. In 1911, she married Archduke Charles, who matched her in both age and rank. Their [ … ]
Tersztyánszky, colonel general
Károly Tersztyánszky was born in 1854 in the village of Szakolca, in an old Hungarian noble family. He attended military schools in the 1870s. He studied first in Sankt Pölten [ … ]
Colonel Zielinski
I have already written briefly about the history of the Polish Legion here. One of the commanders of this force was Colonel Zielinski. He was born in 1858 and attained [ … ]
Max v. Gallwitz
Gallwitz was one of the German generals involved in joint operations with the armies of the Monarchy. He was born in 1852 and was the commander of an independent cavalry [ … ]