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 [ … ]
Category: Generals and personalities
Archducess Augusta
Bavarian Princess Augusta of Augusta came from the Bavarian Wittelsbach House on the paternal branch and from the Habsburg-Lothringen House on the maternal branch. She was the granddaughter of Emperor [ … ]
Colonel Viktor Russ
This is a post of my friend Gábor Vásárhelyi, who is a dedicated Bukovina researcher and thus, of course, he also searches for the memories of Viktor Russ. Russ was [ … ]
Józef Pilsudski
One of the leaders of the Polish Legion during the Great War. He was born in 1867 in Zulow, which is now part of Lithuania and was part of the [ … ]
Otto von Habsburg
He was born on November 20, 1912. He was the eldest son of the later I. Karl. He was the third successor to the throne at birth. In a short [ … ]
Colonel Gyula Bauer
Colonel Bauer was an outstanding battlefield commander of the 44th “Damned Regiment”. He was born in 1862 in Tata to a Jewish family. After graduating from civic schools he continued [ … ]
baron Samuel Hazai minister of defense
He was born in 1851 in the city of Rimaszombat in a Jewish family (Kohn). He was enlisted in the Hungarian honvéd army in 1873. Here he soon excelled in [ … ]
Enver Pasha
Ismail Enver, a much-debated figure in Turkish history, was deputy commander-in-chief of the Turkish army involved in the fighting during the Great War. He was born in 1881 in Istanbul. [ … ]
Colonel General Arthur Arz von Straussenburg
Colonel-General Arthur Arz was born in Nagyszeben in 1857 to a Saxon family with a long history. After graduating, he first began his studies in law, but soon enrolled as [ … ]
Archduke Friedrich
He was born in the Teschen branch of the Habsburg-Lorraine house in 1856. Grandson of Archduke Charles, who was the first prince of Teschen. After the deaths of his father [ … ]