Suicide, questions in parliament and pathological military discourse
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Colonel General Robert Freiherr von Georgi,, Imperial-Royal National Minister of Defence, portrait photograph
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“Soldier suicides in Galicia”, newspaper report from the Arbeiterzeitung of 28 November 1913
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Newspaper report on a soldier’s suicide from Innsbrucker Nachrichten of 20 October 1869
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Leidinger, Hannes: Suizid und Militär. Debatten – Ursachenforschung – Reichsratsinterpellationen 1907-1914, in: Cole, Laurence/Hämmerle, Christa/Scheutz, Martin (Hrsg.): Glanz, Gewalt, Gehorsam. Militär und Gesellschaft in der Habsburgermonarchie (1880 bis 1918), Essen 2011, 337-358
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"We members have the duty...": Sten. Prot. AH RR, 181. Sitzung der XXI. Session vom 28.11.1913, quoted from: Leidinger, Hannes: Suizid und Militär. Debatten – Ursachenforschung – Reichsratsinterpellationen 1907-1914, in: Cole, Laurence/Hämmerle, Christa/Scheutz, Martin (Hrsg.): Glanz, Gewalt, Gehorsam. Militär und Gesellschaft in der Habsburgermonarchie (1880 bis 1918), Essen 2011, 345 (Translation)
"[...] suicide is nothing other than...": Peiffer, Hermann, quoted from: ibid., 351 (Translation)
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Kapitel
- Militarisation and nation-building: an interaction
- From the Theresian reforms to the battle of Königgrätz
- Universal conscription as the fundamental militarisation of society
- Military training: violence as a military instrument for achieving obedience
- Suicide, questions in parliament and pathological military discourse
- Anti-militarism in Bohemia: “The fit are enslaved”
- Total mobilisation – the First World War and special measures
