Generals and personalities

IR 56 Daun
The 56th Regiment was recruited from the Krakow area in Galicia. Its headquarters were in Wadowice. It was founded in ...

Conrad von Hötzendorf
I have already written a detailed post about the Chief of Staff of the Monarchy’s forces here. There I have ...

Colonel Karl Möller
He was born 1876 in Vienna, in a military family. He graduated from the cadet school in Vienna in 1897, ...

Serényi and Pokorny, IR 25
The 25th infantry regiment was organized in the central areas of the Upper Lands of Hungary, its command was in ...

Franz Riml v. Altrosenburg
I came across a rare badge recently. The portrait of general major von Altrosenburg with the cityscape of Lemberg in ...

Major Gyula Hummel
Major Gyula Hummel is mentioned in the staff of the 2nd honvéd infantry regiment in the schematics of 1917 and ...

Colonel General Karl Kritek
He was born in 1861 in Spalato, Dalmatia. He completed his studies in Vienna, then the military schools in St ...

Lieutenant General Pál Nagy
In the Great War, he was first commander of the 72nd Infantry Regiment, then in November he led the 38th ...

Colonel Eduard Fischer
He was born in 1862 in Carapciu, Bukovina. He prepared for a military career since childhood, and began his career ...

Hermann von Staabs
The soldiers of the Monarchy knew the names of only a few of the German generals, therefore it was rarely ...