Generals and personalities

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

Svetozar Boroević was born in 1856 in Umetic, Croatia. In 1875, he was appointed lieutenant and was assigned to the

Emperor Karl and his wife Zita were very popular in Hungary. Hungarians did not forget the 1848/49 events. Neither did