!!!Kaiserschützen

Kaiserschuetzen, originally called "Landesschuetzen" (from1851), part 
of the Tirolean army, from 1871 formed military units of the Austrian 
and the Hungarian Landwehr (separate reserve units in Austria and 
Hungary and were not part of the k. u. k. (joint Austrian and 
Hungarian) Army) ( Kaiserjaeger); from 1893 there were 
3 Kaiserjaeger regiments (Innsbruck, Bozen, Trient), which they 
were trained as alpine troops. In 1914 deployment in Galicia and from 
the summer of 1915 also at the southwestern Italian front. In January 
1917 they were given the honorary name of "Kaiserschuetzen". 
Kaiserschuetzen museum in Innsbruck.

!Literature
H. v. Lichem, Spielhahnstoss und Edelweiss. Die Friedens- 
und Kriegsgeschichte der Tiroler Hochgebirgstruppe "Die 
Kaiserschuetzen" von ihren Anfaengen bis 1918, 1977.


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