Inspector General of All Armed Power
The title of general inspector of the entire armed power was used only once in Austria-Hungary . On August 17, 1913, Emperor Franz Joseph I appointed his nephew and heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , as inspector general and decreed that the military chancellery of Franz Ferdinand should now be called the chancellery of the inspector general of all armed forces .
As a general at the disposition of the Supreme Command, the heir to the throne had already taken an intensive part in strengthening the military strength of the dual monarchy without having a relevant function and maintained a military chancellery in Belvedere Palace , his Vienna residence . It was directed from 1906–1911 by Alexander Brosch von Aarenau , then by Carl von Bardolff . At the end of 1913 the inspector general's military chancellery comprised ten officers, some of them from the general staff.
The term “entire armed power” meant that the heir to the throne - regardless of the activity of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry - could inspect military units and facilities of all branches of arms, regardless of whether they were led by the dual monarchy ( joint army , Austro-Hungarian navy ) or one of the subordinate to both states ( kk Landwehr or ku Landwehr or Honvéd ).
After Franz Ferdinand was murdered in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 after a maneuver visit in Bosnia , the job title was no longer used and the military chancellery in the Belvedere was dissolved.