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 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 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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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, [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]