Minister of War (Austria-Hungary)

Imperial and Royal Minister of War (German: Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsminister) was one of the common ministries shared by the states which made up the Dual Monarchy from its creation in 1867 until the empire's collapse in 1918. In common with the common Ministry of Finance and the Emperor himself, the military was one of the few institutions wholly shared by both constituent parts of the empire, although both Austria and Hungary both possessed their own Defense Ministries charged with the internal administration of the armies of both countries.

Imperial & Royal Minsters for War

	Name	Image	Term began	Term ended
1.	Feldmarschalleutnant Franz Freiherr von John		1867	1868
2.	Feldmarschalleutnant Franz Kuhn Freiherr Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld		1868	1874
3.	General der Kavallerie Alexander Freiherr von Koller		1874	1876
4.	Feldzeugmeister Arthur Maximilian Graf Bylandt-Rheydt (der Ältere)		1876	1888
5.	Feldzeugmeister Ferdinand Freiherr Bauer		1888	1893
6.	Feldzeugmeister Rudolf Freiherr Merkl		1893	1893
7.	General der Kavallerie Edmund Freiherr von Krieghammer		1893	1902
8.	Feldzeugmeister Heinrich Ritter von Pitreich		1902	1906
9.	General der Infanterie Franz Freiherr Schönaich		1906	1911
10.	General der Infanterie Moritz Ritter Auffenberg von Komarów		1911	1912
11.	Feldmarschal Alexander Freiherr von Krobatin		1912	1917
12.	Generaloberst Rudolf Stöger-Steiner Edler von Steinstätten		1917	1918

The War Ministry

The imposing neoclassical Imperial & Royal War Ministry Headquarters, the department's final home, was dedicated during Krobatin's tenure in 1912, and the reign of Emperor Francais Joseph I. It and can still be seen in Vienna today.

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See Also

Austro-Hungarian Army
Austria-Hungary
Austrian Empire