Major Gyula Hummel is mentioned in the staff of the 2nd honvéd infantry regiment in the schematics of 1917 and 1918. Major from November 1, 1915. But how did he [ … ]
Category: Generals and personalities
Colonel General Karl Kritek
He was born in 1861 in Spalato, Dalmatia. He completed his studies in Vienna, then the military schools in St. Pölten and Märisch-Weisskirchen. Between 1876-79 he graduated from the military [ … ]
Lieutenant General Pál Nagy
In the Great War, he was first commander of the 72nd Infantry Regiment, then in November he led the 38th Infantry Division as a major general. In the winter of [ … ]
Colonel Eduard Fischer
He was born in 1862 in Carapciu, Bukovina. He prepared for a military career since childhood, and began his career as a volunteer of the 41st Infantry Regiment. He was [ … ]
Hermann von Staabs
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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]