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572 How is a War Financed ?
Josef Saborsky & Söhne
; cattle for slaughter Vienna 225,629,200
Schöller & Co.; steam mill, steel and iron, wood sanding Vienna 105,866,992
Škodawerke A.G. Pilsen 543,527,452
Spirituszentrale
; central spirits office Vienna 150,000,000
Ústředni Svaz česk. hospod. společenstev
; Czech business
association Brno
(Brünn) 188,930,737
Vereinigte Jutefabriken
; sandbags Vienna 137,912,835
B, Wetzler & Co.; victuals Vienna 1,191,837,387
Witkowitzer Bergbau-Gesellschaft
; mining Vítkovice
(Witkowitz) 224,753,357
Zentralverband der böhm. Landwirtschaftl. Genossenschaften
f.d. Markgrafschaft Mähren Ges.m.b.H.; central association of
Bohemian agricultural associations for Moravia Brno 148,886,569
Zuckerzentrale
; central sugar office Vienna 193,755,040
The list of major Hungarian war suppliers may be somewhat shorter than its Austrian
counterpart. Overall, by the end of 1917, however, there were also around 5,300 cat-
egory 1 companies, associations and consortia in the Kingdom of Hungary. Of these,
321 by degrees subscribed to war bonds with sums of over one million kronen. These
were usually accompanied by extensive deliveries. 20 companies came out at the top
with over 100 million kronen. The list was dominated by suppliers of foodstuffs and
animal feed :
War suppliers in the Kingdom of Hungary with delivery values of over 100 million kronen
Haditermény r.t.; war products, plc., Budapest 1,033,607,820
Weiss Manfred r.t. konzervgyár
; preserves factory, plc Budapest 827,357,494
Wetzler B. és tsa
; preserves Királyhida 593,899,252
Magyar élelmiszerszállitó r.t.; Hungarian food transport, plc Budapest 581,469,319
Vágómarha központ
; slaughter animal central office of the Impe-
rial and Royal War Ministry Budapest 565,693,483
Weiss Manfred lőszer, acél és fémmüvei r.t.; ammunition, steel
and metalworks, plc Budapest 545,000,000
Wolfner Gyula és Társa, börgyár
; leather factory Budapest 356,570,000
Nemzeti egyes. Textilművek és tsaik magyar posztószállitó tár-
sasága
; Hungarian cloth supply company for the Imperial and
Royal Army Budapest 323,012,287
Kelenföldi bőrhadfeldszerelési intézet, Schmitt és Tsai.; Kelenföld
leather manufacturing factory for army supplies, Schmitt and
Cons. Budapest 231,186,465
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918
- Title
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- Subtitle
- and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918
- Author
- Manfried Rauchensteiner
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-79588-9
- Size
- 17.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 1192
- Categories
- Geschichte Vor 1918
Table of contents
- 1 On the Eve 11
- 2 Two Million Men for the War 49
- 3 Bloody Sundays 81
- 4 Unleashing the War 117
- 5 ‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’ 157
- 6 Adjusting to a Longer War 197
- 7 The End of the Euphoria 239
- 8 The First Winter of the War 283
- 9 Under Surveillance 317
- 10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’ 355
- 11 The Third Front 383
- 12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915 413
- 13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’ 441
- 14 War Aims and Central Europe 469
- 15 South Tyrol : The End of an Illusion (I) 497
- 16 Lutsk :The End of an Illusion (II) 521
- 17 How is a War Financed ? 555
- 18 The Nameless 583
- 19 The Death of the Old Emperor 607
- 20 Emperor Karl 641
- 21 The Writing on the Wall 657
- 22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution 691
- 23 Summer 1917 713
- 24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts 743
- 25 The Pyrrhic Victory : The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein 769
- 26 Camps 803
- 27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk 845
- 28 The Inner Front 869
- 29 The June Battle in Veneto 895
- 30 An Empire Resigns 927
- 31 The Twilight Empire 955
- 32 The War becomes History 983
- Epilogue 1011
- Afterword 1013
- Acknowledgements and Dedication 1019
- Notes 1023
- Selected Printed Sources and Literature 1115
- Index of People and Places 1155