Kriegsmarine:Ĭommander-in-Chief of the Austrian branch of the k.u.k. Minister-President and Minister for Finance:Īlbert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichsteinĭirector of the Imperial Military Intelligence:Ĭhief of General Staff of the Imperial and Royal Army:Ĭommander-in-Chief of the Austrian Landwehr:Ĭommander-in-Chief of the Austrian branch of the k.u.k. Whether reform will be able to find its way to Hungary, only the Kaiser knows for sure. It is, however, unlikely that the Carpathian basin will continue to remain in Magyar hands, since Hungary's peoples have been gazing upon the liberties across the Leitha, wishing to have such autonomy for themselves. Cisleithanian Austria, now a federation-state, has calmed down - but the same cannot be said for Transleithania. However, many feel that there is hope for Austria - the last decades were hard on the Empire, but the effort has started paying off. The latter was, however, in a feat of Habsburg diplomacy, made loyal to Austria in granting the leadership of the Croatian insurrectionaries the Crown of Illyria - a move that unified the South Slavs, under Croatian leadership, loyal to Austria - that however angered the Hungarian side of the Empire, traditionally the overlords of Croatia, even further. Across Croatia, Bosnia and occupied Montenegro, a Serb-sponsored Pan-Slavic revolution took one city after the other.
Kaiser Karl, following in the footsteps of the assassinated Franz Ferdinand in trying to reform the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire into something that could survive in the twentieth century, launched a series of large-scale reforms however, his efforts were largely blocked by nobility of the Hungarian side of the Empire - leading to his plans of federalisation progressing only slowly, and only on the Cisleithanian side of the Empire. Despite standing amongst the victors of the Weltkrieg, the war revealed the divisions of culture, class, and ideology within the Empire ever so clearly, and the inner unrest continued on as the war ended.
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