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    The Hofkriegsrat (or Aulic War Council, sometimes Imperial War Council) established in 1556 was the central military administrative authority of the Habsburg...
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    Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. By birth, he was a member of the House of Starhemberg. He was born in...
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    the Battle of Saint Gotthard. Afterwards, he became president of the Hofkriegsrat and briefly returned as supreme commander of the Imperial forces during...
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    little action. Hohenzollern sat as President in the deliberations of the Hofkriegsrat (Aulic Council) from 1825 to 1830. He became a Feldmarschall on 18 September...
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    started to reform the Austrian army in 1801 by taking away power from the Hofkriegsrat, the military-political council responsible for the armed forces. Charles...
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    innovations of his own such as the Raitkammer (collections office) and the Hofkriegsrat, conceived to counter the threat from the Ottoman Empire, while also...
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    to no avail—they didn't respect any officers."[citation needed] The Hofkriegsrat of Vienna immediately took measures: they strengthened the Habsburg troops...
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    commander of the city of Vienna, imperial field marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat. He was the son of Ferrante de Gazzuolo and Isabella Gonzaga, and thus...
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    bis zur Auflösung (Bamberg, 1912) Imperial Austrian Army (1806–1867) Hofkriegsrat List of Lieutenant Field Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire André Corvisier...
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    otherwise maintained the separation of command functions between the Hofkriegsrat and his field commanders. In the later years of his reign he limited...
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    division in 1805 and an army corps in 1809. He became a member of the Hofkriegsrat (Aulic Council) in 1811. He was the Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian...
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    diplomat in the imperial service. He was Field Marshal, president of the Hofkriegsrat, and the representative of the Emperor in the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg...
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    commanded army corps. At the time of his death, he presided over the Hofkriegsrat, the Austrian Council of War. While fighting against the Turks, Gyulay...
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    the imperial forces. In 1762 he had been appointed president of the Hofkriegsrat. By order of Maria Theresa, a monument to his memory was erected by Balthasar...
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  • was an Imperial Field Marshal and from 1739 to 1762, President of the Hofkriegsrat (Imperial War Council). Johann Joseph Philipp Graf Harrach came from...
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    the Carbonari revolt in the Savoyard state. He became president of the Hofkriegsrat in 1831, but would die only a few months later in Vienna. Chapman, Tim...
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    Italy, save for a handful in the Maritime Alps and around Genoa. But the Hofkriegsrat did not choose to take advantage, and sent Suvorov with his Austrian...
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  • 1715) was an Austrian diplomat, Field marshal and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Heinrich Franz came from the powerful House of Mansfeld, and was the...
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    started to reform the Austrian army in 1801 by taking away power from the Hofkriegsrat, the military-political council responsible for decision-making in the...
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  • major reform of the Austrian army's artillery and became a member of the Hofkriegsrat. In 1769, he became Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian infantry regiment...
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    military career, with the intent to eventually appoint him president of the Hofkriegsrat. In 1790, Grand Duke Leopold succeeded his brother, Joseph II, as Leopold...
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    the Army of the Upper Rhine, he was recalled to Vienna to serve on the Hofkriegsrat in 1795. In late 1796 he took over command of the army that was fighting...
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    forces, in the 1708 Battle of Trencsén. As the conflict rumbled on, the Hofkriegsrat president Prince Eugene of Savoy appointed the loyal Hungarian Field...
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    Prince of Fondi, Austrian diplomat, Field marshal and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Mansfeld Castle, ancestral seat Seeburg Heldrungen in Thuringia, purchased...
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    joint action however, as following the strategic plans of the Austrian Hofkriegsrat under Baron Thugut, Charles had been ordered to move his main command...
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    populations, and Vojvodina, containing a substantial Serb population. Hofkriegsrat-controlled Military Frontier separated the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia...
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    commander during the Napoleonic Wars and from 1831 to 1848 President of the Hofkriegsrat. Ignaz Graf zu Hardegg came from the ancient Lower Austrian noble Hardegg...
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    Major General in 1830 and Fieldmarshal-Lieutenant and member of the Hofkriegsrat in 1835. In 1848 he commanded the first Armeekorps in Italy, and became...
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    in the Kingdom of Sardinia that same year. He became president of the Hofkriegsrat in 1831, but died a few months later at Vienna.  One or more of the preceding...
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  • of Commanding General of Silezia and Moravia. Became a member of the Hofkriegsrat (1815) and the Interior Privy Council. Died at Vienna in 1823. Mecséry...
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