Thank you for coming this way and watching my video, If you enjoyed this, you might want to check out the next one also about the Austro-Hungarian Empire and it's Imperial Air Force: ruclips.net/video/-3mBurnvUtA/видео.html
Austria-Hungary was a wide state with mainly rural and agricultural regions. The army is usually also dependent on the industrialization of its country/territory. It reflects that its army was before WW1 mainly there to control the different patches of territory and its border. I think it should have had a stronger cavalry, which still plays a role in WW1. In many wide rural regions such troops move much better and can control bigger patches of land -> how strong was this austro-hungarian cavalry?
Thank you for this video Even for us austrians its quite a complicated topic, and unfortunately there are very few austrian RUclipsrs who have the knowledge to cover this topics. In other words: none 😄
Thank you for watching my video! yeah its a very complex setup, i am planning to do 2 follow up videos sometime in the near future, one about the Landwehr and one about the Honvédseg regarding their structure and how they were aligned with the Common Army, but i am still gathering the strength to write them up :D
Military history (not) visualized … is a very good Austrian history channel in English. He is also a real historian. Yes it’s mainly concentrated on WW2, but he also handles the time short after WW1. Why don’t you ask him for a cooperation? Maybe he can help, but doesn’t have the context on his platform to bring in his pre WW1 knowledge?
yes i am familiar with his work and following his channel almost since he started! one of my favourite creator in the history niche, both his explaining videos and his interviews are amazing on both channels he makes videos on! but tbh i dont think i am on the level of knowledge as a person or size as a channel to be able to collaborate with him just yet.
@@HistoricalHavocHub I think it is here it’s not about “levels”, but about finding out details and truth, which have been only released in recent times and are often taught falsely till today. I grew up behind the iron curtain east of You in Bucharest and there are so many things that the history books in my time taught incorrect. I am practically learning now everything fresh about “history in Europe”, because nearly all countries used history as propaganda machines… You can only ask and have nothing to lose. He may not have any detailed knowledge about the austro-hungarian army around WW1, but maybe he would like to cooperate on a specific item to learn himself more?… The comment we write under is correct. For smaller countries such historic details are rare to find (except on the two channels that handle first WW = “the Great War” and second WW (…)on daily or weekly basis).
How were the components of the combined army structured during wartime? Were, for example, corps from the Austrian army shuffled into common armies, or was it done at at a divisional level, etc.?
hey! thank you for watching my video, i am not ignoring your question just when i wanted to answer i caught up in conflicting answers regarding this and deeper i dig its getting more confusing... as far as i understand,, the Landwehr and the Honvédség was a territorial based organisation, the Common army was Corps based and in case of war the territorial districts and it's divisions were aligned with the Common Army Corps based on locality
In regions like In Transylvania/Siebenbürgen, people lived together and my grandfather and older generations (of german origin and many others of romanian or hungarian origin) spoke the three main languages (for him): german, romanian and hungarian. Of course it was not perfect, but living together made it possible to learn enough words to get by. And yes all three languages have different roots and are not related. That is because they had the mindset that they were neighbors and lived together. -> so you also had these mixed language regions. Think of Franz Kafka. Was he not born in Prague, but wrote mainly in german? For the context: Transilvania was in different times romanian, hungarian, austro-hungarian territory. Father of that grandfather fought for the austro-hungarian army against the italians and ended up in a prison camp on an island. We had a bronze ashtray in the house, that he brought back from there. Usually you don’t need more than 300-600 words to get by, so this lament, that a specific language is too hard or whatever, doesn’t really count. Learning the language of the others that live around depends also on the motivation and the more you accept others around you, the easier it gets (bad teacher can’t change this mindset and You speak in this video english=foreign language). It’s the segregationist attitude, that works against being open to learn enough words of another language. You can find in Turkish Basar in Istanbul turks that speak enough romanian or german words to make business. And they never took a language course or had it in the school…
Great and very informative video! My great-grandfather was a soldier of A-H army who fell during World War I during battles with Russia. Unfortunately, I know no closer details. Do you think there is an archival source where maybe I might find some details about his fate?
Hi there. thank you for watching my video and for the kind words! regarding your question, not an easy task for sure! i would start with this website to establish which unit was he the member of: www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/ then with that information and the date+location of birth and date and location of the death, you can reach out to the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv which is taking care of the Military records of the Monarchy in Austria. if your Great-grandfather was from the pre-war Hungary/Bohema/Moravia/Galicia then you could reach out to their current Military History Record as they should hold the records for the historical state's army.
@@HistoricalHavocHub Thank you for the response. Believe me or not, something surrealistic happened to me. I clicked on your link on my mobile phone, went through the page, it was really interesting. Then there was a link to discussion pages. And there, just by some strange game of fate or maybe some UFO energy or something else, I found very useful references. Among others to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Where I found exactly the record of my predecessor. And not only that. On the same page I found a record of my friend´s from childhood fallen predecessor, who had nothing common with my predecessor and was from a completely different area of the Monarchy. With just a couple of clicks on a mobile phone in 2024.... I´m very grateful to you, thank you Sir very much for your help!
@@gr3ag0o22 I am glad I could helped, also OMG this is mind-blowing! What were the odds for this! I am very happy that you managed to find what you were looking for!
Thank you for coming this way and watching my video, If you enjoyed this, you might want to check out the next one also about the Austro-Hungarian Empire and it's Imperial Air Force: ruclips.net/video/-3mBurnvUtA/видео.html
Austria-Hungary was a wide state with mainly rural and agricultural regions. The army is usually also dependent on the industrialization of its country/territory. It reflects that its army was before WW1 mainly there to control the different patches of territory and its border.
I think it should have had a stronger cavalry, which still plays a role in WW1. In many wide rural regions such troops move much better and can control bigger patches of land -> how strong was this austro-hungarian cavalry?
Most informative. Thanks for posting!
Thank you for coming this way and watching my video 🙂
Thank you for this video
Even for us austrians its quite a complicated topic, and unfortunately there are very few austrian RUclipsrs who have the knowledge to cover this topics. In other words: none 😄
Thank you for watching my video! yeah its a very complex setup, i am planning to do 2 follow up videos sometime in the near future, one about the Landwehr and one about the Honvédseg regarding their structure and how they were aligned with the Common Army, but i am still gathering the strength to write them up :D
Military history (not) visualized … is a very good Austrian history channel in English. He is also a real historian. Yes it’s mainly concentrated on WW2, but he also handles the time short after WW1. Why don’t you ask him for a cooperation? Maybe he can help, but doesn’t have the context on his platform to bring in his pre WW1 knowledge?
yes i am familiar with his work and following his channel almost since he started! one of my favourite creator in the history niche, both his explaining videos and his interviews are amazing on both channels he makes videos on! but tbh i dont think i am on the level of knowledge as a person or size as a channel to be able to collaborate with him just yet.
@@HistoricalHavocHub I think it is here it’s not about “levels”, but about finding out details and truth, which have been only released in recent times and are often taught falsely till today. I grew up behind the iron curtain east of You in Bucharest and there are so many things that the history books in my time taught incorrect. I am practically learning now everything fresh about “history in Europe”, because nearly all countries used history as propaganda machines…
You can only ask and have nothing to lose. He may not have any detailed knowledge about the austro-hungarian army around WW1, but maybe he would like to cooperate on a specific item to learn himself more?…
The comment we write under is correct. For smaller countries such historic details are rare to find (except on the two channels that handle first WW = “the Great War” and second WW (…)on daily or weekly basis).
How were the components of the combined army structured during wartime? Were, for example, corps from the Austrian army shuffled into common armies, or was it done at at a divisional level, etc.?
hey! thank you for watching my video, i am not ignoring your question just when i wanted to answer i caught up in conflicting answers regarding this and deeper i dig its getting more confusing... as far as i understand,, the Landwehr and the Honvédség was a territorial based organisation, the Common army was Corps based and in case of war the territorial districts and it's divisions were aligned with the Common Army Corps based on locality
Thanks for the answer! I imagine a lot of the sourcing about these things is split between languages. Can't be easy to get consistent information
In regions like In Transylvania/Siebenbürgen, people lived together and my grandfather and older generations (of german origin and many others of romanian or hungarian origin) spoke the three main languages (for him): german, romanian and hungarian. Of course it was not perfect, but living together made it possible to learn enough words to get by. And yes all three languages have different roots and are not related. That is because they had the mindset that they were neighbors and lived together. -> so you also had these mixed language regions. Think of Franz Kafka. Was he not born in Prague, but wrote mainly in german?
For the context: Transilvania was in different times romanian, hungarian, austro-hungarian territory. Father of that grandfather fought for the austro-hungarian army against the italians and ended up in a prison camp on an island. We had a bronze ashtray in the house, that he brought back from there.
Usually you don’t need more than 300-600 words to get by, so this lament, that a specific language is too hard or whatever, doesn’t really count. Learning the language of the others that live around depends also on the motivation and the more you accept others around you, the easier it gets (bad teacher can’t change this mindset and You speak in this video english=foreign language). It’s the segregationist attitude, that works against being open to learn enough words of another language. You can find in Turkish Basar in Istanbul turks that speak enough romanian or german words to make business. And they never took a language course or had it in the school…
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thank you! :)
This video reminded me of Brave Soldier Schveik 😁
i honestly never understood how is that book is not one of the books for mandatory reading in school!
Great and very informative video! My great-grandfather was a soldier of A-H army who fell during World War I during battles with Russia. Unfortunately, I know no closer details. Do you think there is an archival source where maybe I might find some details about his fate?
Hi there. thank you for watching my video and for the kind words!
regarding your question, not an easy task for sure! i would start with this website to establish which unit was he the member of:
www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/
then with that information and the date+location of birth and date and location of the death, you can reach out to the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv which is taking care of the Military records of the Monarchy in Austria. if your Great-grandfather was from the pre-war Hungary/Bohema/Moravia/Galicia then you could reach out to their current Military History Record as they should hold the records for the historical state's army.
@@HistoricalHavocHub Thank you for the response. Believe me or not, something surrealistic happened to me. I clicked on your link on my mobile phone, went through the page, it was really interesting. Then there was a link to discussion pages. And there, just by some strange game of fate or maybe some UFO energy or something else, I found very useful references. Among others to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Where I found exactly the record of my predecessor. And not only that. On the same page I found a record of my friend´s from childhood fallen predecessor, who had nothing common with my predecessor and was from a completely different area of the Monarchy. With just a couple of clicks on a mobile phone in 2024.... I´m very grateful to you, thank you Sir very much for your help!
@@gr3ag0o22 I am glad I could helped, also OMG this is mind-blowing! What were the odds for this! I am very happy that you managed to find what you were looking for!