Generals and personalities

Alexander von Krobatin (1849-1933) was an Austrian artillery officer, and from 1912 to 1917 he was Minister of War of

He was born in 1854 in Udine, where his father served as a military officer. From 1869 he attended a

He came from the Hungarian branch of the Habsburgs. His grandfather was Archduke Joseph, whose name was included in the

German Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was born in Posen (now Poznan) in 1847. His father was a Prussian army

Born in Temesvár in 1854, his family was of Transylvanian Saxon descent. He was trained as a military engineer at

Field Marshal, Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during most of the Great War (1912-1917). He was born in

He was born in the Teschen branch of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen. Like most Habsburg boys, he was sent to

He was member of an old Graz family, who added several military officers to the Army and Fleet of the