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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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