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. [ … ]
Category: Generals and personalities
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 [ … ]
Ruprecht, crown prince of Bavaria
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 [ … ]
Colonel general Felix von Bothmer
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 [ … ]
Arthur von Bolfras colonel general
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 [ … ]
Imre Hadfy von Livno, GdI
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 [ … ]
Feldmarshal August von Mackensen
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 [ … ]
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
Born in 1856, a military officer of Sudeten German descent, Imperial and Royal Lieutenant General, Commander of the 2nd Army. His father, Sergeant Georg Böhm, was given the rank of [ … ]
“Colonel Danny Papp, the hero of Bukovina”
The title is not a joke, but an excerpt from a contemporary war propaganda book. Danny Papp was the commander of a famous infantry unit of the Monarchy, the Papp [ … ]