Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Results found: 5

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

Search:
in the keywords:  AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY
help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
1

POLES IN THE AUSTRIAN OFFICER CORPS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY (Polacy w korpusie oficerskim armii austriackiej w pierwszej polowie XIX wieku)

100%
Baczkowski M.
Studia Historyczne
|
2010
|
vol. 53
|
issue 3(211)
267-284
EN
After the partitions of Poland a few million Poles were added to the population of Austria–Hungary. Between 1790 and 1815 the Austrian authorities made repeated attempts to recruit Polish volunteers, especially those of gentry stock, many of whom were to be promoted to officer rank. The greatest number of Polish officers served in the Uhlan regiments (there were four of them at that time). The infantry was far less popular with the Poles, while artillery and the engineer corps attracted very few of them. The Napoleonic wars made the prospect of a speedy career a tangible reality; later, however, as promotions were blocked, the stream of volunteers dried up. It was not until the 1830s that the number of officers of Polish background started to rise. Another increase of the Polish contingent in the officer corps was recorded in the latter half of the 1840s. Few Poles in the Austrian military were promoted beyond the rank of NCOs. It was rare to find a Pole in command of a brigade, and exceptionally rare for a Pole to attain the rank of general. The Poles were usually hindered on their upward climb by inadequate educational qualifications, language, and generally low status of the Polish gentry in the Habsburg monarchy. In the period under consideration the most spectacular career was that of Karol Gorzkowski who became a general of cavalry. Other notable careers belonged to Feldmarschall-Lieutenants Feliks and Edward Wojna and General-Major Antoni Tarnowski. A few Poles made it to the rank of brigade commander. On the whole, it seems that the second half of the 19th century saw a much greater interest among the Poles in a military career in the Austrian military.
2

ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ LÉGIE VO SVETLE RAKÚSKOUHORSKÝCH DOKUMENTOV

100%
Zaťková J.
Vojenská história
|
2021
|
vol. 25
|
issue 3
149 - 160
EN
At the end of World War 1, the question of the significance of the Czechoslovak Legions as the new fighting power started appearing in the Austro-Hungarian documents. The top command of the Austro-Hungarian Army recognised that the activity of the legions consisting of Czech and Slovak volunteers, who were still the citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, casts an unfavourable light on the Monarchy as a whole, pointing out to its tense internal political arrangement. Therefore, the Austro-Hungarian Army made an effort to enforce the propaganda among the public that these units consisting of Austro-Hungarian citizens only form a small and insignificant part of the fighting troops. In particular, the memo they wanted to spread about the Czechoslovak units located in Russia was that they were only fighting against the Bolsheviks as a part of the very diverse anti-Bolshevik coalition. However, the high command of the Austro-Hungarian Army realised that their actual effort upon concluding the Peace of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918 was to move from Russia to the Western front, where they could engage in the fights again, in the last stage of the World War 1. Relevant documents on this topic can be found in the Military Archive in Vienna, in the Armeeoberkommando collection. We provide their transcription followed by a translation to Slovak language and references.
3

VYBRANÉ VOJENSKO-HISTORICKÉ SÚVISLOSTI TZV. PREŠOVSKEJ VZBURY

100%
Chorvát P.
Vojenská história
|
2022
|
vol. 26
|
issue 4
30 - 45
EN
In the present study, the author focuses on selected military-historical contexts of the tragic events, known in the historical sphere as the so-called Prešov Revolt. In particular, this was the revolt of the Austro-Hungarian Army reserve units, which took place in Prešov from the night of the 31st October to the 1st November 1918. The aforementioned revolt was subsequently brought to an end by the intervention of the called-in assistance units and the mass execution of 43 people in the centre of the town. In this context, the author is interested only in the return of the reserve battalion of Infantry Regiment 67 to Prešov in 1918, the issue of the deployment and activities of the local military garrison in the period in question, the position of the revolt among other similar turning points in the reserve units of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and also the situation in the civilian sector. The author’s effort was to bring some new information, or the context of the so-called Prešov Revolt, and at the same time to draw the attention of researchers to other potential research directions.
4

PÔSOBENIE FRIDRICHA MAŤAŠOVSKÉHO V SLUŽBE V RAKÚSKO-UHORSKEJ ARMÁDE V ROKOCH PRVEJ SVETOVEJ VOJNY

100%
Vrábel F.
Vojenská história
|
2021
|
vol. 25
|
issue 4
76 - 89
EN
By chance, the originally handwritten and later typewritten memoirs of the Austro-Hungarian soldier Fridrich/Fritz Mattyasovszky/Matiašovsky were saved from the waste paper collection in Ružomberok. The material is bound into a book of 518 numbered pages and captures Mattyasovszky‘s stories and reflections from his mobilisation in August 1914, fighting on the Eastern Front, followed by Transylvania, Romania and Alsace until his return back home. The last entry is from 23 August 1919 (however, transcribed on a typewriter only from 10 January to 14 March 1938). Mattyasovszky‘s memoirs are relatively fresh and valuable also due to the fact that he was recording his experiences continuously, supplementing them not only with his own illustrations, but also with contemporary photographs and postcards. After returning to his home village, Malá Udiča (today‘s Udiča, district of Považská Bystrica) he worked as a teacher.
5

OBEC RUSKÁ KAJŇA A PRVÁ SVETOVÁ VOJNA

75%
Burda M.
Vojenská história
|
2020
|
vol. 24
|
issue 1
52 - 87
EN
In the Slovak military historiography focusing on the years from 1914 to 1918, we can only find a few papers dealing with the specifically oriented research focusing on the participation of men of the Austro-Hungarian Army from a particular municipality in the territory of contemporary Slovakia and the military operations in the particular locality. On the example of the municipality of Ruská Kajňa in the today’s district of Humenné, this study monitors the participation of men from this municipality on the battlefields of the World War, analyses the combat activity of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Army at the turn of 1914 and 1915 and also offers a brief view of the demographic development of the municipality until the end of the World War, surely influencing the development of Ruská Kajňa in Czechoslovakia after 1918. In spite of the fact that Ruská Kajňa was not a significant economic, military, cultural-social, political or religious centre of the river Oľka valley in the Zemplín County, it was in this municipality’s surrounding where the strategic combat operations regarding an important crossroad in the direction of Medzilaborce and Stropkov took place, with the local residents having to suffer all the oppressions of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Army in their homes directly. After the frontline moved off back behind the Carpathian Passes, it was necessary to reconstruct the damaged homes and farm buildings, which was very challenging since the men from Ruská Kajňa were recruited to the Austro-Hungarian Army, fulfilling their military duty on the Eastern and Italian front.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.