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Ludwig Koch: The Supreme Commander of the Army, Emperor Franz Joseph I, illustration, 1907

From: “Unteilbar und Untrennbar”. The history of the great world war with particular account of Austria-Hungary, Vienna 1919, Vol. 1, frontispiece

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    The Army: Austria-Hungary in its entirety

    The famous words ‘In deinem Lager ist Österreich’ from the poet Franz Grillparzer’s eulogy to Field Marshal Radetzky celebrate the Imperial and Royal Army as the supreme embodiment of the Habsburg Monarchy: ‘There in your encampments, behold her: Austria!’. Nor did the uniformly white-coated soldiers of the multi-ethnic army serve the state: they served Emperor Franz Joseph, who was ‘Supreme War Lord’.