The Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops were founded in 1906 as part of the Austrian Landwehr, the territorial army of the Cisleithanian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As a result, the abbreviation "
The Commander-in-Chief from 1916, Emperor Charles I
Kaiserschützen
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The k.k. Landesschützen – from 16 January 1917 Kaiserschützen – were three regiments of Austro-Hungarian mountain infantry during the kaiserliche und königliche Monarchie. As a rule, only Tyrolean and
Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops
…Alpine border security. Field Marshal Tunk, agreed with him and put forward a concept, the fundamentals of which were then carried out. The existing state rifle regiments were to be trained as mountain troops and, together with the Landsturm border patrol companies and gendarmerie departments were to form the backbone…
k.k. Landesschützen on Monte Pin