Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten
| Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten | |
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Stöger-Steiner as War Supremo
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| Born |
April 26, 1861 Pernegg an der Mur, Austrian Empire |
| Died | May 12, 1921 (aged 60) Graz, Austria |
| Allegiance |
 Austrian Empire Austria-Hungary
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| Service/branch | Army |
| Years of service | 1878–1918 |
| Rank | Generaloberst |
| Unit | 4th Infantry Division Gruppe Stöger-Steiner XV Corps |
| Commands held | Galician Front Isonzo Front |
| Battles/wars |
Galician Campaign Battles of the Isonzo World War I |
| Awards |
Order of Leopold Prussian Iron Cross Golden Imtiaz Medal Military Merit Cross Order of the Iron Crown |
| Other work | War Academy Instructor |
Rudolf Freiherr Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten (26 April 1861 – 12 May 1921) was a Colonel-General in the Austro-Hungarian army and served as the last Imperial Minister for War not only to the Austro-Hungarian Empire but to the ancient Habsburg monarchy which sat at its head.
Born as Rudolf Stöger in the village of Pernegg an der Mur, Styria, in the then Austrian Empire in 1861, Stöger-Steiner's father died when he was a young boy, leading his mother to marry a then Oberleutnant in the Austrian Army, Joseph Steiner. Stöger-Steiner's stepfather, a veteran of the Danish campaign where he had been mentioned in dispatches to the Kaiser, had a profound influence on the young man's development and encouraged him to enlist in the Army.
Joseph Steiner saw that his stepson entered service as a cadet in the 9th Feldjägerbataillon upon joining the Army so as to prevent him being sent off to active service in Bosnia as a war volunteer, but rather than join his stepfather's old unit, Stöger-Steiner was accepted into the Infantry cadet institute at Liebenau for officer's training.
Having passed through officer training school with "good effort", the young Stöger-Steiner was commissioned as a lieutenant with the 9th Feldjägerbataillon on November 1, 1880.
Accepted into the Imperial Kriegsschule in Vienna, he graduated and was appointed to the general staff with the rank of Oberleutnant in 1886 before serving in the 50th infantry brigade, the 8th mountain brigade and the 18th infantry division before being promoted to Captain in 1890.
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