Characteristics of personnel numbers during the two World Wars and the 1919 Revolution
Characteristics of personnel numbers during the two World Wars and the 1919 Revolution
World war I.
1914: the total peace time number of the joint Austrian-Hungarian armed forces - 415,000 (Officers: 34,000).
Envisaged number of personnel able to be mobilized: one million eight hundred thousand
1918: 4.5 million soldiers in arms (as of January 1), 2.9 million in combat, 1.6 million in the rear. A total of 9 million soldiers served during the war. Of these, 1.1 million were killed in action, 1.9 million were wounded and 2.1 million were taken as prisoners of war (POW).
1919 Revolution
May 5, 1919. the combat force numbered 57,264
on May 10: 72,070 persons
on May 13: 107,005 persons.
The army had a total of eight divisions serving. These had 115 battalions with 51,586 weapons, 84 machine gun companies armed with 682 weapons, 8 cavalry companies with 870 horsemen, 14 cannon batteries with 63 cannons, 2 mountain gun batteries with 5 guns, 20 howitzer batteries with 81 guns and 3 heavy batteries with 6 guns, 16 engineering companies, 8 air squadrons with a total of 37 aircraft.
World war II:
1941: The strength of the Hungarian forces: 255 thousand
1942: The strength of the Hungarian forces: 549 thousand
1944: The strength of the Hungarian forces: 1,014,727
(Of these: 17 thousand professionals, 37 thousand reservists, 160 thousand deceased, 280 thousand POW)
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