Austria Hungary WWI Cap Badge Colonel General Pflanzer Baltin 1914 1916 by Schneider

Austro-Hungarian Empire: WW1 patriotic cap 
badge with the portrait of Colonel General 
Karl Baron von Pflanzer-Baltin. 
Dated 1914-1916.
Maker marked by Schneider in Vienna.
Karl Baron von Pflanzer-Baltin came out of 
retirement in Oct. 1914, was promoted to 
General of Cavalry and was given command 
of the K.u.K. VII (7th) Army that saw action 
exclusively on the Eastern Front. Under his 
command the K.u.K. VII (7th) Army took part 
in the Carpathian Campaign, captured the city 
of Czernowitz (in Ukraine) and halted the 
Russian Bessarabian Offensive. In Jun. 1916 
the VII Army was practically annihilated by 
the Russian Brusilov Offensive. 
It was reinforced by German troops and while 
it nominally remained under Pflanzer-Baltin's 
command, in reality it operated under the 
control of the German Chief of Staff Major 
General von Seeckt until its dissolution in 
Apr. 1918. 
In Jul. 1918 Pflanzer-Baltin took command 
of the A-H Forces in Albania and led the last 
successful offensive of the War by the 
Central Powers. Following the Armistice 
he surrendered his forces on 18 Nov. 1918. 
Colonel General Karl Baron von Pflanzer-
Baltin died in Vienna in 1925, having earned 
the nick name "Now Here, Now There" for 
his rapid movement of forces in battle.

WW1 1914 1918

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