kuk Technical Military Committee

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History, continuance

The Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Committee , going back to 1717 and formally founded on November 1, 1869 as the Imperial and Royal Technical and Administrative Military Committee , the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces was one of the auxiliary organs of the Reich Ministry of War . It was in Vienna, VI. District , Getreidemarkt 9.

The task of the committee was to observe and follow the technical development within the scope of military usefulness. It also had to submit expert opinions and applications to the ministry.

At the head of the committee was a general of the artillery or the staff of genius. He carried the title of "President".
In August 1914, this was Lieutenant Field Marshal Ferdinand Goglia (1855-1941). (There were twelve presidents between 1869 and 1918, beginning with Artur Maximilian von Bylandt-Rheidt , 1821–1891.)

The committee was divided into four sections:

  • I. Section: Artillery (Section Chief Colonel of Field Gun Regiment 24 Johann Putsek)
1. Department - Munitions (Board of Directors: Lieutenant Colonel of the Staff of Genius Hermann Brandl)
2. Department - Theoretical work and experiments (Board: Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Edler von Portenschlag-Ledermayr)
3rd Department - Construction (Board of Directors: Lieutenant Colonel of the Artillery Staff Karl Padiaur)
4th Department - Equipment and Weapons (Board: Major of the Artillery Staff August Graf Scapinelli von Leguigno)
1st Department - Fortifications and Fortress Warfare (Board: Colonel Adolf Janda)
2nd department - nonexistent
3rd Department - Pioneering and Mining (Board of Directors: vacant)
4th Department - Military Construction and Intendancy (Board of Directors: Lieutenant Colonel of the Engineer Officer Corps August Marussig)
  • III. Section: Statistics and Directorate (Section Head: Colonel of the General Staff Corps Richard Ritter von Gruber)
1st Department - Military Statistics (Board of Directors: Lieutenant Colonel Albert Werth)
2nd Department - Intendancy (Board of Directors: Chief Military Officer 1st Class Eduard Alscher)
  • IV. Section: Technology - a chemical laboratory, a collection of physical instruments, a mechanical workshop and a photographic workshop. (Head of Section: Colonel of Field Artillery Regiment No. 1 Phil. Leopold Austerlitz)
  • Automotive
Automotive testing department: Vienna VI. Bez. Gumpendorfer Straße 1 (Technical Military Committee Building) Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Wolf

The staff consisted of staff and senior officers of the General Staff Corps, the artillery, the staff of geniuses, the engineers and other troops. In addition, there were technical officials and unskilled workers as chief armed forces and foremen in the rank of sergeant.

The technical officials had no porterage authorization . They wore a tunic made of light blue cloth with cherry-red velvet leveling and two rows of yellow, smooth buttons, as well as a black hooded hat ( bicorn ) with a black border. With the sword in black scabbard. The unskilled NCOs wore the uniform of their original troops until 1908 . Then they were given a cap with a cock's plume, a dark blue tunic with cherry-red passepoils and blue-gray pantaloons with passepoils for the parade. To adjust the march, they wore hats, blouses and pantaloons in pike gray.

Literature, sources

  • Alphons Freiherr von Wrede: History of the KuK Wehrmacht. The regiments, corps, industries and institutions from 1618 to the end of the 19th century . Volume I. Communications from the Imperial and Royal War Archives, ZDB -ID 516580-5 . Seidel and Son, Vienna 1898, OBV .
  • Friedrich Gatti: History of the K. and K. Technical Military Academy . Part I: History of the KK Ingenieur- und KK Genie-Akademie 1717–1869 . Braumüller (on commission), Vienna 1901. - archive.org .
    • -, Albert von Obermayer (Ed.): Part II: History of the KK Bombardier Corps, the KK Artillery Secondary School and the KK Artillery Academy 1786–1869 . Braumüller (on commission), Vienna 1905. - archive.org (also: archive.org ).
  • Adjustment regulation for the Austro-Hungarian Army . Volume III. k.-k. Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1911, OBV .
  • Seidel's little army scheme. Dislocation and division of the Imperial and Royal Army, the Imperial and Royal Navy, the Imperial and Royal Landwehr and the Royal Hungarian Landwehr . (Course of publication: proven 8.1881–76.1914). Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, ZDB -ID 2361602-7 , OBV .
  • V (ilém) Pech (compilation): Army tables. Teaching and learning aids for military education and training institutions as well as reserve officer schools . (Course of publication: verified 9/1/1912–12/1915). Innsbruck / Prague, self-published by the author / editor, ZDB -ID 2351466-8 , OBV .
  • Oskar Regele : On the history of the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Committee 1869–1918. In: Blätter für Technikgeschichte 14, 1952, pp. 38–54.
  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck , Erich Lessing: The K. (below) K. Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
  • Oskar Brüch (Ill.), Günter Dirrheimer (comment): The KuK Army 1895. A series of images . Writings of the Army History Museum in Vienna, Volume 10, ZDB -ID 525152-7 . Stocker , Graz 1997, ISBN 3-7020-0783-0 .

Web links

Commons : Military Uniforms from Austria-Hungary  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Daily news. (...) Technical-administrative military committee. In:  The Debate , morning edition, No. 203/1869 (VI. Year), July 24, 1869, p. 4 (unpaginated), center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ddb.
  2. ↑ All information relates to August 1914.
  3. ↑ However, writing of the kuk Militäradministratur to 1918 since the spelling reform of 1996 as Field Marshal Lieutenant referred
  4. ^ Oskar Regele : On the history of the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Committee 1869–1918. In: Josef Nagler (Red.): Blätter für Technikgeschichte . No. 14, Springer, Vienna 1952, p. 44. - (online)