Kriegsmarine expanded along with Austro-Hungarian industrialization into one of the largest navies in the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas. Largely neglected by the Empire in its early years, the k.u.k. Following Austria's defeat by Prussia and Italy during the Seven Weeks' War, the Austrian Empire reformed itself into the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, and the navy also became the Austro-Hungarian Navy. It saw action in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second Egyptian–Ottoman War, the First and Second Wars of Italian Independence, the Second Schleswig War, and the Third War of Italian Independence. Prior to 1867, the Imperial Austrian Navy or simply the Austrian Navy. Kriegsmarine came into being after the formation of Austria-Hungary in 1867, and ceased to exist in 1918 upon the Empire's defeat and subsequent collapse at the end of World War I. Ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship).
Kriegsmarine, Hungarian: Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy ( German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. The Naval Section of the War Ministry Headquarters Karl Kailer von Kaltenfels (February 1917–April 1917)įranz von Holub (February 1918–November 1918) Miklós Horthy (February 1918–November 1918)Ĭhief of the Naval Section of the War Ministry (German: Chef der Marinesektion)įriedrich von Pöck (October 1872–November 1883) Maximilian Njegovan (February 1917–February 1918)
Maximilian Njegovan (April 1917–February 1918)Ĭommander-in-Chief of the Fleet (German: Flottenkommandant) Rudolf Montecuccoli (October 1904–February 1913) Hermann von Spaun (December 1897–October 1904) Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck (November 1883–December 1897) Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (March 1868–April 1871)įriedrich von Pöck (April 1871–November 1883) Hans Birch Dahlerup (February 1849–August 1851)įranz Graf Wimpffen (August 1851–September 1854)Īrchduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria (September 1854–1861) Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1867–1918)Ĭommander-in-Chief of the Navy (German: Oberkommandant der Marine)
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