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Generals and personalities

Enver Pasha

Ismail Enver, a much-debated figure in Turkish history, was deputy commander-in-chief of the Turkish army involved in the fighting during ...
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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 ...
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Archduke Friedrich

He was born in the Teschen branch of the Habsburg-Lorraine house in 1856. Grandson of Archduke Charles, who was the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Feldmarshal August von Mackensen

He was born in Saxony in 1849 and studied agriculture in Halle. He began his military career in 1869 as ...

Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli

Born in 1856, a military officer of Sudeten German descent, Imperial and Royal Lieutenant General, Commander of the 2nd Army ...

“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 ...