Military science communications
| Military science communications
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| Area of Expertise | military |
| language | German |
| Headquarters | Vienna |
| First edition | 1920 |
| attitude | 1944 |
| editor | Federal Ministry for the Army |
| ISSN (print) | 0935-3623 |
The military scientific reports were a military technical journal that appeared from 1920 to 1944 in Austria and the German Reich , from 1920 to 1921 under the title Technische Mitteilungen , from 1921 to 1929 under the name military scientific and technical reports . The predecessor was the communications published from 1870 to 1919 on items relating to artillery and genius of the KK Technical Committee.
After the First World War , all military journals in Austria were discontinued in 1918/19. The armed forces were initially subject to the same restrictions as those of the German Reich, which is why no general staff was allowed to be set up after the war that could have carried out an official military historiography. In addition, in the turmoil of the post-war period there was no interest in a specialist press for military information for the armed forces. It was not until the summer of 1920 that the “ Technischen Mitteilungen ”, a magazine that had existed since 1869, appeared in the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Army with funding from the Army Inspectorate . However, it was only devoted to military-technical and artillery topics. More could not be achieved at this time, as the "Standing Parliamentary Commission for Army Affairs", headed by General Theodor Körner, opposed any other form of " Habsburg tradition ".
When Körner retired in 1924, the magazine was renamed " Military Science and Technical Communications ". Extensive military topics were dealt with in it again. Under the leadership of the officers Franz Xaver Schubert and Emil Ratzenhofer, the size of the magazine increased fourfold by 1932 and finally comprised around 1000 pages per year. In addition, special issues on larger topics were published. This made the magazine, which was now called “ Military Scientific Reports ”, the most comprehensive military magazine in the German language. There was one issue per month and in addition a “Publishing House of Military Science Communications” was set up which published books on military topics.
The content should serve the processing of the tactical lessons of the First World War, but also for troop training and as a discussion platform. The contributions often influenced the creation of the new training regulations or provided important cooperation work with the military history department of the war archive , which had meanwhile started the official Austrian military history of the First World War. However, there were hardly any works on war theory. In the editions, so-called “Defense Policy Overviews” appeared regularly, in which the armed forces of Europe and the strategic situation were analyzed. Furthermore, the literature reviews made up a large part of the magazine.
After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, the publication of the magazine was placed under the responsibility of the “ German Society for Defense Policy and Defense Sciences Berlin - Branch Vienna ”. Their contributions sank to mere collections of examples for anticipated war situations. After the outbreak of the Second World War , factual analyzes and articles on the events of the war still appeared in the military science reports , but in the course of the war these gave way more and more to propaganda texts and perseverance slogans. At the end of 1944 the magazine ceased to appear.
The military science reports today provide an important insight into Austrian military history from 1920 to 1938. In addition, many of your contributions to the course of the First World War have become very valuable after 1945, as the original files were largely lost in the Second World War. Historians are also interested in the “Military Political Overviews”, as they give an insight into how the military situation in Europe presented itself to the contemporaries involved.
literature
- Peter Broucek: Military history in Austria from 1918 to 1945. In: Lectures on military history. Vol. 6, Mittler, Herford / Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8132-0214-3 , pp. 87-107.
Web links
- Record of the journal. In: Catalog of the German National Library .