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 [ … ]

The regiments of the Monarchy had regiment owners. This title used to be symbolic, but previously it was the duty of the regiment owners to set up the formations and [ … ]

Military cooperation between the Monarchy and the German Empire became as close as possible as early as 1915. The troops of the two countries fought shoulder to shoulder to defend [ … ]

He was born in 1838 in Sachsenhausen, Germany. His family was of German descent on the Rhine, but his father had already become a colonel in the army of the [ … ]

He was born in 1853 in Nagykároly. In 1875 he entered active military duty as a lieutenant. He took part in the occupation of Bosnia, where he distinguished himself by [ … ]

He was born in Saxony in 1849 and studied agriculture in Halle. He began his military career in 1869 as a one-year volunteer. He took part in the Prussian-French War [ … ]