Preliminary communication
Croatian Members of the Imperial and Royal General Military Headquarters from Podravina in the First World War
József Padányi
; National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
Tibor Balla
; National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
The study analyses the career of Croatian members of the imperial and royal corps of generals, who served in the First World War and come from the neighboring regions of today’s Podravina. The authors summarize the general characteristics of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy’s armed forces and the corps of generals during the World War I., then present the results of the detailed analysis - with use of the methods of historical statistics and sociology - on the biographical data of 13 highest ranking Croatian generals belonging to the elite of the Austro-Hungarian corps of generals, containing 1200 persons. The authors finally publish the biographies of titular generals of the infantry Stephan Freiherr Bogat von Kostanjevac und Panos and Michael Freiherr Tišljar von Lentulis, and detailed their activities during the First World War.
Keywords
Austro-Hungarian corps of generals; Croatian generals; Podravina; Stephan Bogat; Michael Tišljar
Hrčak ID:
289352
URI
Publication date:
11.12.2022.
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