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Adjusting to a Longer War 1047 Kriegspressequartiers im Ersten Weltkrieg, doctoral thesis, University of Vienna, 1965. 535 See also Manfried Rauchensteiner, Zeitungskrieg und Kriegszeitung, in : Ein Stück Österreich. 150 Jahre “Die Presse”, edited by Julius Kainz and Andreas Unterberger (Vienna, 1998), 92–107. 536 Neue Freie Presse, Morgenblatt, 28.8.1914. 537 Ibid., Morgenblatt, 3.9.1914. 538 Hesshaimer, Miniaturen aus der Monarchie, 83. 539 Eva Maria Hois, “Ein Kultur- und Zeitdokument ersten Ranges” : Die Soldatenliedersammlung der Musikhistorischen Zentrale beim k. u. k. Kriegsministerium im Ersten Weltkrieg. Geschichte, Dokumente, Lieder, doctoral thesis at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 2007. The systematic collection began in 1916 in a sub-group of Department 10/War Economy of the Imperial and Royal War Ministry. For the purposes of continuing the work, the department of the War Press Bureau also designated the ‘Soldiers’ Song Headquarters’ was attached. Its staff extended their work to the prisoner of war camps, where, for example, songs of Russian prisoners (Mingrelian, Abkhazian, Ossetian, Mordvinic and other songs) were recorded using phonographs. After the war, a substantial part of the collections was lost. 540 Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv (Styrian Regional Archives ; hereafter StLA), Herberstein Kriegserin- nerungen, 31. 541 Ibid., 33. 542 KA, Neue Feld Akten (NFA) 1914, Box 909, 15. I.D., Op.Akten 1.8– 30.9.1914. Eine zusammenhän- gende Darstellung der Kämpfe in Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg, Vol. 1, 197–204. On the death of General Wodniansky, it states (p. 200) : ‘Out of desperation, the divisional commander, MG Baron v[on] Wodniansky, gave himself to death.’ 543 Declared as permanently unfit for duty. 544 Consequently, the General should have appeared on one of the plaques that were mounted in the pan- theon in the Military History Museum in Vienna and should recall the colonels and generals who fell in battle or succumbed to their wounds between 1618 and 1918. Wodniansky is missing. 545 Carl Bardolff, Soldat im alten Österreich. Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben (Jena, 1938), 198 et seq. 546 Kaiser Karl, Persönliche Aufzeichnungen, Zeugnisse und Dokumente, edited by Erich Feigl (Vienna/ Munich, 1984), 106 et seq. 547 StLA, Herberstein Kriegserinnerungen, 26. The entry of the headquarters of the Imperial and Royal War Ministry, however, states : ‘MG Ernst von Froreich-Szabo, fallen in battle 18.8.[1914] near Sa- tanów on the Zbrucz’. 548 KA, KM Präs 1914 1-4/24. 549 Reinhard Nachtigal, Die kriegsgefangene k. u. k. Generalität in Russland während des Ersten Welt- kriegs, in : Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur (mit Geographie), Vol. 47 (2003), No. 5, 258–274. 550 KA, Nachlass Hartinger, 22. 551 KA, KM Präs 1914 1-151/2, Enclosure. 552 Ibid., Brudermann to the War Ministry, 10.11.1914. 553 KA, MKSM Sonderreihe (SR), Briefe an den Vorstand, Box 58, Brudermann to Bolfras, 8.9.1914. 554 KA, KM Präs 1914 1-111/2, 28.9.1914. 555 KA, KM Präs 1914 1-133/ 4, 5. 556 KA, KM Präs 19141-116/1-4. Schemua was not retired, however, but instead received the command of the Danube frontier Krems–Bratislava/Pozsony. For good measure, Brigadier Maximilian Csicserics, a particularly good chief of staff, was appointed alongside him. On Csicserics see the (uncritical) work by Hans Eder, Der General der k. u. k. Armee und geheime Rat Maximilian Csicserics von Barcsány, doctoral thesis, University of Vienna, 2010. 557 KA, MKSM SR Briefe an den Vorstand, Box 58, Count Karl Huyn to Bolfras, 9.9.1914.