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4 days ago · Preview: The Great War, 1914-1918: In coming weeks, conversation with Professor Nick Lloyd about his new comprehensive work, "The Eastern Front." Here, a comment on the commander of the Austria-Hungary Army, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and his inflexible confidence in his battle plans -- to nought. 1914 Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf
1 day ago · Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1906 to 1917, determined the earliest that Austria-Hungary could declare war was 25 July.
1 day ago · On 15 May 1916, the Austrian Chief of Staff Conrad von Hötzendorf launched the Strafexpedition ("punitive expedition"): the Austrians broke through the opposing front and occupied the Asiago plateau. The Italians managed to resist and in a counteroffensive seized Gorizia on 9 August.
22 hours ago · With the growing emergence of nationalism in the twentieth century, unity of all South Slavs looked promising. This tension is exemplified by Conrad von Hötzendorf's letter to Franz Ferdinand: The unification of the South Slav race is one of the powerful national movements which can neither be ignored nor kept down.
4 days ago · Preview: The Great War, 1914-1918: In coming weeks, conversation with Professor Nick Lloyd about his new comprehensive work, "The Eastern Front." Here, a comment on the commander of the Austria-Hungary Army, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and his inflexible confidence in his battle plans -- to nought.1914 Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf
1 day ago · Sophie Chotek von Chotkowa, Gattin von Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este, Thronfolger von Österreich-Ungarn, umgekommen beim Attentat von Sarajevo; Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chef des k.u.k. Generalstabes; da der Name allgemein schon zeitgenössisch zur Verwirrung führte, ließ der Generalstab in der Wiener Reichspost vom 12.
3 days ago · Franz Ferdinand was adamantly opposed to those who supported a pre-emptive war against Serbia, particularly Chief of Staff Conrad von Hötzendorf and the foreign minister, Leopold Berchtold. His motives were neither pacifist nor humanitarian; he was motivated exclusively by strategic and political considerations.
