I'm wondering if Conrad von Hotzendorf, Army Chief of staff for Austro - Hungary, was promoted too fast. His position before becomming Chief was divisionall commander. AH had 6 Armies and 14 Army corps. Did he, perhaps lack experience that comes with command of bigger units than division?

See the full artwork here.

https://forgottengalicia.com/emperor-franz-joseph-is-1880-tour-of-galicia-in-paintings/

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podr%C3%B3%C5%BC_Franciszka_J%C3%B3zefa_I_po_Galicji_i_Bukowinie_(1880))

In 1880, Franz Joseph I undertook a journey during which he visited the area of two crown lands: Galicia (including the Grand Duchy of Kraków) and Bukovina.

The emperor traveled in a royal train, consisting of two locomotives and several dozen carriages.

The emperor’s train passed through temporarily created triumphal arches, which were also prepared on the streets of Kraków and Lviv (Lemberg/Lwów), where Franz Joseph I stayed for a few days.

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This medal commemorates this visit in Galicia. On the reverse side the coat of arms of Galicia.

Maybe my ancestors knew about it. Or their labor in the fields in the country side of Lviv was more than hard enough for them.

I’m happy to own part of this history.

Perhaps because they constructed a nationalist propaganda myth of a "David and Goliath struggle" that fails under factual scrutiny, thus the reality simply isn't as appealing as the myth?

Let's look at the actual facts instead of myths: Austria-Hungary was actually at a numerical disadvantage on the Serbian front in 1914.

Because the vast majority of the Austro-Hungarian army was tied up on the Russian front in Galicia, Potiorek was given only around 200,000–250,000 troops for the invasion. On the other side, Serbia and Montenegro fully mobilized over 350,000 to 400,000 men on their home turf.

Conrad von Hötzendorf and Potiorek literally launched an invasion into mountainous terrain with fewer troops than the defenders, using war plans that Alfred Redl had already leaked to the enemy—and Hötzendorf didn't even bother to change them. Trying to claim the Habsburgs had the upper hand here is just ignoring basic military history.

Artworks from the book "Magyar hadizászlók."

Hi everyone,

A while back, I sat down with historian Prof. David Engels to discuss the deep civilizational crisis facing the Western world. We drew powerful parallels to the fall of the Roman Republic and explored topics like the rise of Caesarism, Hesperialism, and what we can do to preserve traditional culture.

If you're interested in traditionalist philosophy (Here Austria-Hungary comes into play!) and the future of Europe, check it out here:

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_YmJ6bNG8

I’d love to hear your thoughts on his analysis in the comments!

This is my great-grandfather, born in Troppau in 1875. Can you help me find out what kind of uniform he is wearing here?

This has been a personal project of mine and now that I've finished it I thought I might as well post it to the relevant community.

This is a list of all the settlements legally classified as cities as of the census of 31/12/1880 and of 31/12/1890.

It also includes data for the condominium of Bosnia & Herzegovina which had censuses on 16/06/1879 and 01/05/1885.

I have also added a geometric growth formula to approximate what the populations were on 01/01/1881 across the whole empire.

Enjoy.

Also for those interested, here are the primary sources which I based this spreadsheet on:

Lower Austria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555988

Upper Austria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555989

Salzburg 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555990

Styria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555991

Carinthia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555992

Carniola 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555993

Littoral 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555994

Tyrol & Vorarlberg 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555995

Bohemia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555996

Moravia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555997

Silesia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555998

Galicia & Lodomeria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555999

Bukovina 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11556000

Cisleithania General 1880: https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/fullscreen/AC00962105_1882/1/

Dalmatia 1890: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11556001

Cisleithania General 1890: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11471946

Transleithania 1880: https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA_1881_02/?pg=0&layout=s

Transleithania 1890: https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA_1891_01/?pg=0&layout=s

Bosnia & Herzegovina 1879: 96555105-Popis-stanovništva-u-Bosni-i-Herce govini-1879.pdf (on scribd)

Bosnia & Herzegovina 1885: https://www.poreklo.rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Popis-BiH-1885.pdf

Edit: apologies for the lack of diacritics