Hermann Albin Josef Freiherr Kövess von Kövessháza was the final, and completely ceremonial, Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army. He served as a generally competent and unremarkable commander in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was close to retirement in 1914 when the First World War broke out and he was given a command post.
Kövess (fourth from right) shaking hands with Arthur Arz von Straußenburg during the 180th investiture in the history of the Military Order of Maria Theresa on 17 August 1917 at Schloss Wartholz
The Montenegrin campaign of World War I, in January 1916, was a part of the Serbian campaign, in which Austria-Hungary defeated and occupied the Kingdom of Montenegro, an ally of the Kingdom of Serbia.