r/austriahungary • • Apr 29 '26

OFFICIAL Newer Custom Flairs

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After seeing some people actually start using the flairs I made, it felt a bit unfair to be the only one with a bright colour. User flairs have been updated to stand out more, and several additional flairs have been added.


r/austriahungary • • Nov 14 '24

OFFICIAL New Custom Flairs

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Hear ye hear ye! If I configured the server correctly you should be able to give yourself flairs now.


r/austriahungary • • 20h ago

PICTURE Austro-Hungarian buckle I bought!

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Bought this buckle a long time ago, thought I’d share!


r/austriahungary • • 9h ago

HISTORY Was the Hungarian dethronement of the Habsburg dynasty a legally and morally correct action in 1849?

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Dethronement of the Habsburg dynasty

Main article: March Constitution (Austria))

Protestant Great Church of Debrecen

The dethronement was prompted by four principal causes.

  • The first was the Imperial Constitution of Olmütz), proclaimed on 4 March 1849, which threatened to strip Hungary of its ancient constitution and thousand-year-old statehood and reduce it to a mere province within the centralized Austrian Empire; it provoked widespread outrage in Hungary and became a key immediate cause of the dethronement.\21])
  • The second cause was Francis Joseph's usurpation of the Hungarian throne;\6])
  • The third was the repudiation by the Habsburg court of the April Laws, which had been enacted by the Hungarian Diet and sanctioned by King Ferdinand V on 11 April 1848;\22])
  • And fourth, most decisively, the "usurper's" attempt to forcibly overthrow Hungary's legitimate constitutional government and elected representative parliament by the Habsburg army, which was interpreted by the government and Hungarian parliament as an "attempted coup by military force".\6]) The Hungarian Diet consequently declared the dethronement of the entire Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty at the Great Calvinist Church of Debrecen on 14 April 1849.\23])

r/austriahungary • • 1d ago

HISTORY Hi this is my Great Great Grandfather Mehmed Ćosić 1885-1969 this photograph is shot in 1967 he fought in WW1 for Austrian army sadly he lost all his 3 brothers in WW1 on russian front he probably Had PTSD this is only photograph of him

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r/austriahungary • • 1d ago

HISTORY The plans of Charles the 1st to end the war

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r/austriahungary • • 1d ago

QUESTION Qualification Badges and Lanyards.

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Hi everyone!

I've been doing some research on Austro-Hungarian qualification badges and lanyards, particularly those worn by infantrymen, and I've come across a few things I'm not entirely sure about.

  1. Were sharpshooter lanyards considered separate awards from other qualification badges, or were they part of the same system?
  2. Did receiving a qualification badge automatically entitle a soldier to wear a corresponding lanyard, or were these awarded independently?
  3. Were qualification badges still awarded after the outbreak of WWI in 1914, or were they discontinued?
  4. What about sharpshooter lanyards specifically? Could soldiers still earn them during the war, or were they only worn by men who had qualified before 1914?

I'm particularly interested in the 1915–1918 period, especially ordinary k.u.k. infantry units.

If anyone has contemporary regulations, photographs, or other primary sources that might clarify this, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks in advance!


r/austriahungary • • 2d ago

PICTURE Then and Now: Austro-Hungarian 22.5 cm Böhler Minenwerfer M 15 - archive photo 1916 vs. museum piece today"

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r/austriahungary • • 2d ago

QUESTION K.u.K. Wallpapers

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Gentlemen, I require your help. Austro-Hungarian and other Habsburg adjacent wallpapers would be much appreciated


r/austriahungary • • 3d ago

PICTURE Help with uniform

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Can someone identify what these decroative ropes meant was it meant to signify proficiency at something?


r/austriahungary • • 2d ago

QUESTION Is it true that the A-H Empire was very corrupt and less developed than the German Empire?

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I’ve heard that certain regions of the empire were really poor like Bukowina/Buchenland or Galizia which were affected by famine and high emigration and the reasons for this was the high levels of corruption. How true is this?


r/austriahungary • • 3d ago

MILITARY Can someone help me with this regiment?

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The 2nd (Brasov) K.u.K. Husarenregiment / 2.brassói huszárezred. My greatfather was a feldwebel / őrmester in it. I'd like to know where they fought, what they did during WWI and fun facts if there are any


r/austriahungary • • 3d ago

HISTORY Is Yugoslav President Tito Really a Yugoslav?

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Declassified NSA report analyzes Tito's Serbo-Croatian speech, finding palatalization patterns and grammar errors of a non-native speaker.


r/austriahungary • • 5d ago

HISTORY Pál Kovács, a private of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal 68th Infantry Regiment. He was the first casualty of World War I, died on the Serbian-Hungarian border on July 29, 1914.

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r/austriahungary • • 7d ago

MILITARY K.u.K. Infanterie-Regiment Erzherzog Karl Nr. 3

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Sources:

https://onb.digital/result/10F77641

https://onb.digital/result/13241974

https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/detail.aspx?ID=3035282

https://www.valka.cz/Pesi-pluk-c-3-1873-1918-t47180

If you got more images and footage of the K.u.K. Mährisches Infanterieregiment Erzherzog Karl Nr. 3 please share


r/austriahungary • • 8d ago

PICTURE An Austro-Hungarian field kitchen — German: Feldküche, often popularly called a Gulaschkanone (“goulash cannon”) in the details

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r/austriahungary • • 8d ago

HISTORY Countess Karolyi's Curse against Franz Joseph near the beginning of his reign.

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From the book "The life of Emperor Francis Joseph" by Francis Henry Gribble on archive.org

The curse was supposedly uttered to him by the Countess Karolyi (Countess Antónia Zichy) because he had executed Hungarian military commanders at Arad in 1849 and Count Batthyány supposedly one was her husband. I don't know if it's historical fact or not, the book is great, and the curse (if true) is pretty prescient.


r/austriahungary • • 9d ago

MILITARY Can anyone help me identify my great grandfather’s military uniform from Europe probably World War I era?

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r/austriahungary • • 11d ago

HISTORY OLD NAMES

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Turkish names of Hungarian cities during the Ottoman period


r/austriahungary • • 13d ago

MISCELLANEOUS So back!

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r/austriahungary • • 13d ago

PICTURE Artillery observation post in a trench on the river Piave, February 1918

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r/austriahungary • • 13d ago

"On the Annexation of Bosnia" Racist Caricature by a Viennese nationalist newspaper criticizing the 1909 Bosnia annexation by depicting Bosniaks as dirty and primitive.

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r/austriahungary • • 13d ago

MILITARY K.u.K. Infanterie-Regiment Alexander I. Kaiser von Rußland Nr. 2

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Taken from István Jacob's World War I Diary who was a member of the 2nd Imperial and Royal Hungarian Infantry Regiment during the War

Source:

https://nagyhaboru.blog.hu/2022/03/27/jakab_istvan_elso_vilaghaborus_naploja

If you have images and footage of the K.u.K. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 2 during the War Please Share


r/austriahungary • • 14d ago

MILITARY Grey zhupan division. 1918

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r/austriahungary • • 14d ago

Austro-Hungarian signallers at work, 1914

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