Adjustment

Extract from the adjustment regulation (badge on the hunter's hat)

Adjustment (parade adjustment, march or field adjustment, mountain adjustment) is in Austrian military jargon the name for a type of uniform or the description for the clothing and equipment ordered.

In the earlier imperial and today's federal German usage, however, the term suit order is used.

This does not mean the uniform in the strict sense of the word, as it was called the outfit. (Uniform pieces = pieces of clothing). The pieces of equipment such as coupling or cartridge box was named Man armor.

Adjustment types

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  Captain of the Landwehr after 1908 in parade adjustment as an individual

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  First lieutenant of the riding Dalmatian riflemen in march adjustment

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  Sapper in march adjustment

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  Dragoon officer in parade adjustment

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  Military civil engineer in service adjustment

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  Hunters in winter march
  adjustment

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  Colonel of the German infantry in parade adjustment

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  German infantry soldier in marching adjustment

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  Mountain infantryman in marching adjustment

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  Bosnian-Herzegovinian hunters in marching adjustment

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  Lieutenant of the Hungarian infantry in parade adjustment

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  Hungarian infantry drummers in marching adjustment (before 1908)

Clothing and equipment according to the adjustment regulations had to be made available by the army administration via the troops. However, only crews and NCOs were entitled to this so-called “Aryan” clothing and equipment. Officers and equals (so-called gagists ) received a lump - sum clothing allowance as part of their salary, with which they were responsible for procuring their own equipment.

Annual volunteers performed their service either at the expense of the state or at their own expense (cavalry, mounted artillery, training troops). In the case of those serving at state expense, all types of outfit were made available up to the rank of ensign. In addition, the parts had to be procured yourself. One-year-old volunteers serving at their own expense had to pay for everything themselves, but could be equipped with medical equipment for a flat fee.

Since the adjustment regulation was interpreted very extensively, there were in some cases considerable differences in fabrics, cuts, shapes and colors in the items that they procured themselves, which expressed the preferences and financial possibilities of the wearer.

Parade adjustment of a kuk infantryman in July 1914

(The kk Landwehr , the hunters and the Bosnian hercegowinische Gendarmerie wore instead of Shakos the hunter's hat, the kk Gebirgstruppe (although part of the militia - but equipped with its own uniform) field cap with Spielhahn shock !)

ON THE MAN
1 infantry chako	1 shirt	1 gattie (underpants, long)	1 pair of foot cloths
1 tunic	1 sackcloth	1 pair of pants straps	1 pair of shoes
1 coat (on command)	1 waist strap with lock plate	1 bayonet pocket	1 light blue pantaloons
1 braces	1 legitimation leaf capsule	2 leather cartridge pouches	Medals and shooting awards

Field adjustment of an infantryman in August 1914

The Feldadjustierung the infantry and military police troops involved after Adjustierungsvorschrift for the army in general the following clothing and pieces of equipment:

ON THE MAN
1 pike gray cap with black leather peak	1 shirt	1 gattie (underpants, long)	1 pair of foot cloths
1 pike gray blouse	1 sackcloth	1 pair of pants straps	1 pair of shoes
1 first aid kit	1 waist strap with lock plate	1 bayonet pocket	1 pike gray pantaloons
1 braces	1 legitimation leaf capsule	1 bread sack	1 cutlery
1 canteen	1 gun cleaning utensils	1 scarf	2 leather cartridge pouches
CARRIED IN THE CALF SKIN TORNISTER
1 reserve shirt	1 reserve class	1 tent equipment	1 pair of light shoes
1 pair of foot cloths	3 sachets for food items	1 coat	2 coat straps
1 sackcloth	2 packing straps	1 waist band	1 meal bowl
FIELD DEVICES (not for every soldier)
1 cookware with cover	1 spade with case	1 ax with sheath and bag	1 wire cutters
1 water bucket	1 lantern

Adjustment regulation from 1912

Differences in field adjustment in April 1915

variety	description	annotation
cap	Field gray with a green undertone. Roses and buttons matt, shade the same color as the cap.	Pike gray had not proven itself as a protective color.
blouse	Field gray with matt buttons
coat	Field gray (lining also made of poor quality fabric) Matt buttons
trousers	Field gray trousers like artillery trousers. Hungarian trousers without lacing.
Trouser straps	Made of pigskin or belt fabric (webbing)
Shoes	For field troops nailed through and impregnated with iron pins, hinterland formations with specimens unusable in the field
backpack	Made of half linen	Instead of the knapsack, as it was no longer possible to get the calfskins
Waist strap	Only with a buckle, shape like a cavalry belt	The lock had to be omitted to protect the brass supplies
General sling gear	Made of belt fabric	Due to a lack of leather and protection of leather supplies
Cartridge pouches	Only made of sheet steel, single-cell shape like cavalry	Protection of leather supplies
Canteen	Only made from enamelled sheet iron. Contents 1/2 liter	Similar to cavalry field bottle
Spade case	Made of sheet steel	To protect the leather supplies
Menage bowl	Made of enamelled sheet iron	To conserve tin supplies

Others

kuk officers' skirts in the HGM

In summer as in winter, only long underpants were available as a lower leg dress. The summer pants, called "Gattie", were made of nettle , the winter pants made of knitted cotton had no special name. Short underpants were not issued and had to be procured yourself.

Note

The Vienna Army History Museum manages one of the largest collections of uniforms, outfits and adjustments in the world. In the permanent exhibition, original pieces from all eras are accessible to the public, with the emphasis on the Imperial Army or the later Imperial Austrian Army, the Common Army , Imperial and Royal Landwehr , Imperial and Royal Landwehr and the Navy . Also special pieces, like the original uniforms of Emperor Franz II./I. , Field Marshal Radetzky , Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este and Emperor Franz Joseph I are among them.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ However, the officers still wore the actual hunter uniform with hat when they appeared in parade uniform as an individual, i.e. not integrated into a troop body
2. ↑ it actually was field dressing and not -aid pack
3. ↑ personal eating utensils
4. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher (ed.): The Army History Museum in Vienna. Graz, Vienna 2000 pp. 59, 63.

literature

• Adjustment regulation for the Austro-Hungarian Joint Army, the Imperial and Royal Landwehr, the Imperial and Royal Landwehr, the affiliated institutions and the corps of military officials. (Part III) Published with the approval of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry by Erich Christl's kuk Hofdruckerei, Bozen 1912.
• Johann C. Allmayer-Beck, Erich Lessing: The Kuk Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann publishing house, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
• Peter Fichtenbauer , Christian Ortner : The history of the Austrian army from Maria Theresa to the present in essays and pictorial representations , Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902526-71-7
• Stefan Rest: The emperor's rock in the First World War . Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-9501642-0-0
• The Austro-Hungarian Army in 1895 Writings from the Army History Museum in Vienna - Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1997

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