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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]