How to Pronounce Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
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Aug 03, 1817 Vienna, Austria Died on 18 Feb 1895 (aged 77)
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About Archduke Albrecht Duke Of Teschen
- Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen (3 August 1817 – 18 February 1895) was an Austrian Habsburg general.
- He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military advisors of Emperor Francis Joseph I.
- As Inspector General for 36 years, he was an old-fashioned bureaucrat who largely controlled the Austro-Hungarian Army and delayed modernization.
- He was honored with the rank of Field Marshal in the armies of Austria-Hungary (1888) and Germany (1893). According to historians John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft: He was a firm conservative in all matters, military and civil, and took to writing pamphlets lamenting the state of the Army’s morale as well as fighting a fierce rearguard action against all forms of innovation….
- Much of the Austrian failure in the First World War can be traced back to his long period of power….
- His power was that of the bureaucrat, not the fighting soldier, and his thirty years of command over the peacetime Habsburg Army made it a flabby instrument of war.
