The Hofkriegsrat established in 1556 was the central military administrative authority of the Habsburg monarchy until 1848 and the predecessor of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of War. The agency was directly subordinated to the Habsburg emperors with its seat in Vienna.
Hofkriegsrat building in Vienna, 1775
Minister of War (Austria-Hungary)
The Imperial and Royal Minister of War, until 1911: Reich Minister of War, was the head of one of the three common ministries shared by the two states which made up the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary from its creation in the Compromise of 1867 until its dissolution in 1918.
War Ministry building on Ringstraße, Vienna
Austrian war ministry building, Am Hof, demolished in 1913
Image: Franz John Litho
Image: Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld (Ludwig Ferdinand Graf, 1890)