Training of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces

The training system of the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces was responsible for replenishing and supplying the troops in the event of war.

kuk train lieutenant before 1908

(All information relates to August 1914. For the development of the train and the “ Military Vehicle Corps ” in Austria in the 19th century: see main article → Train .)

Description and organization

The Train troops consisted only of peace squad associations (as in Germany). It was mainly worked on the training and further education of the main troop personnel, as well as the existing material of the army train maintained and administered.

The train included all means of transport, wagons, horses, pack animals and the associated personnel provided for the army, with which the train had to supply the fighting troops with everything they needed to maintain their quick wittedness. (Ammunition, clothing, food, medical supplies, building materials, etc.)

The training troop consisted of three regiments , which in peacetime were divided into a regimental staff and five (one regiment with six) trainee divisions ( battalions ). The traindivision was the actual unit of this type of service and was run independently.

In peacetime the training division consisted of the staff, a varying number of training cadrons and a replacement depot cadre. In the training divisions no. 6, 11, 12 and 14, a squad mountain range was also set. From 1914 on, the training system grew to such an extent that it would go beyond the scope if one wanted to report on it in the Datail. As a result, entire columns of Russian and Serbian prisoners of war had to ensure supplies to the high-alpine positions of the Italian theater of war.

Armament

The cavalry saber was carried by officers , cadets, sergeants, accountants, course blacksmiths and one-year- old volunteers , platoon leaders, corporals and trumpeters, the trainers equipped with riding horses, trainer escorts and trail detachments for the field bakeries. (Platoon leaders, corporals and trumpeters of the mountain squadrons and the mountain division train park were excluded from this.) All the others carried the pioneer saber.

All non-commissioned officers carried the revolver with the exception of the regimental professionals. The teams carried the carbine (As everywhere, the training system was disadvantaged when it came to equipping weapons. For a long time the carbine M 1873/77 was used here.)

Adjustment and equipment

The crews and NCOs used the shako of the infantry or the red field cap of the dragoons as headgear . Officers wore both shakos and field caps based on the pattern of the infantry . As with the artillery , the tunic was made of dark brown cloth. Buttons white and smooth, the leveling color was light blue. The officers had on the tunic a gold cord attachments and an equal shoulder sling. NCOs wore a black and yellow woolen cord on their armpits. The men’s tunics had brown cords. In the train, unlike the cavalry, the team blouse had not been abolished; it was made of dark blue cloth and had light blue parolis .

The brown cavalry cloak with light blue parolis served as a cloak. The trousers and boots were the same as those of the Dragoons . When off duty, officers were allowed to wear salon trousers. The teams carried the cavalry field bottle and the cavalry belt on which the revolver cartridge pouch for the ammunition ( revolver or carbine !) Was located.

Train officers wore the officer's cartridge pouch as a service badge.

Train inspection commands

Vienna: Training inspector: Colonel Albrecht Walz (1st / 2nd / 3rd trainee division)
Budapest: Training inspector: Colonel Johann Jordan (4th / 7th / 12th trainee division)
Lemberg: Training inspector: Colonel Ludwig Kraus (6th / 10th / 11th trainee division)
Agram: Training inspector: Colonel Anton Fettinger (5th / 13th trainee div.)
Innsbruck: Training inspector: Major General Johann Formanek Edler von Waldringen (8th / 9th / 14th trainee div.)
Sarajevo: Training inspector: Major General Maximilian Haller (15th / 16th trainee div.)

The Trainzeugsanstalten

The train unit also included the train equipment depots, the train equipment depot in Klosterneuburg and the train equipment branch depots in Budapest and Sarajevo . Most of the training material for the army was produced in the institutions. In addition, the reserve stocks for mobilization were stored here.

The staff consisted of officers, NCOs (masters) and soldiers as well as technical officials and foremen.

The technical officers had the following rank designations: first or second class chief foreman (captain rank), foreman (first lieutenant rank), assistant for the works (lieutenant). They were counted among the officers without a portepee, wore a dark brown tunic with light blue equalization and smooth white buttons, and were otherwise equipped similarly to the artillery officers.

Train depot Klosterneuburg

Commander: Colonel Otto Reimitzer Edler von Reimitztal

Train depot Budapest

Commander: Rittmeister Matthias Sonntag

Train depot Sarajevo

Commanding officer: Major Anton Peterźilka

Dislocation

Captain to the parade (before 1908)

Train battalion No. 1

Established: 1910 - 1st Corps

Complementary District: I. Corps

Garrison: Krakow Fortress (Vistula Depot Barracks)

Commanding officer: Major Theodor Indra

Train battalion No. 2

Established: 1910 - II Corps

Complementary District: II Corps

Garrison: Vienna (Ruckergasse 62 / Meidlinger Trainkaserne )

Commander: Major Ignaz Čermák

Train battalion No. 3

Established: 1910 - III. corps

Complementary District: III Corps

Garrison: Graz (Schönau)

Commanding officer: Lieutenant Colonel Carl Zieritz

Train battalion No. 4

Established: 1910 - IV Corps

Complementary District: IV Corps

Garrison: Budapest VI. Bez. (Aréna-út 58 / Trainkaserne) 47 ° 26 ′ 26 ″ N , 19 ° 11 ′ 21 ″ E

Commanding officer: Major Franz Breitwieser

Train battalion No. 5

Established: 1910 - V Corps

Complementary District: V. Corps

Garrison: Pozsony

Commanding officer: Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Steindler

Train battalion No. 6

Established: 1910 - VI. corps

Complementary District: VI. corps

Garrison: Kosice

Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Anton Holan

Train battalion No. 7

Established: 1910 - VII Corps

Complementary District: VII Corps

Garrison: Temesvár

Commanding officer: Major Friedrich Stampf

Train battalion No. 8

Established: 1910 - VIII Corps

Complementary District: VIII Corps

Garrison: Prague II district (Pořič 3 / Old Joseph Barracks)

Commanding officer: Major Adolf Kohl

Staff sergeant of the train troops

Train battalion No. 9

Established: 1910 - IX. corps

Complementary District: IX. corps

Garrison: Fortress Josephstadt

Commander: Major Viktor Gröger

Train battalion No. 10

Established: 1910 - X Corps

Complementary District: X Corps

Garrison: Przemysl Fortress

Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Alois Bauer

Train battalion No. 11

Established: 1910 - XI. corps

Complementary District: XI. corps

Garrison: Lemberg (Arciszewskiego ulica / Trainkaserne)

Commanding officer: Major Anton Havelka

Train battalion No. 12

Established: 1910 - XII. corps

Complementary District: XII. corps

Garrison: Nagyszeben

Commanding officer: Major Ferdinand Gross

Train battalion No. 13

Established: 1910 - XIII. corps

Complementary District: XIII. corps

Garrison: Agram

Commanding officer: Major Ferdinand Dits

Train battalion No. 14

Established: 1910 - XIV Corps

Complementary District: XIV Corps

Garrison: Innsbruck (Viaduktstrasse) 3 squadrons in Linz

Commander: Major Franz Patzak

Uniform skirt of a foreman of the training institute

Train battalion No. 15

Erected: 1910 - XV. corps

Complementary District: XIII. and XV. corps

Garrison: Sarajevo (defensive camp) 43 ° 51 ′ 24 ″ N , 18 ° 23 ′ 42 ″ E

Commander: Major Alois Andrich

Train battalion No. 16

Erected: 1910 - XVI. corps

Complementary district: III. corps

Garrison: Mostar

Commander: Major Wilhelm Watznauer

see also : Kuk military cable cars

literature

Johann C. Allmayer-Beck, Erich Lessing: The Kuk Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann publishing house, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
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

Web links

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

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