Talk:List of Austrian Field Marshals

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"The following list of Austrian Field Marshals denotes those who have held the rank of Generalfeldmarschall in the Austrian or Austro-Hungarian armies."

This sentence in Wikipedia contains an error: - In the Austrian and/or Austrian-Hungarian army there has never existed a rank of "Generalfeldmarschall" - the correct word is simply "Feldmarschall", literally the same words "field" and "marshal" as in English. The hypertrophic "Generalfeldmarschall" is a Prussian-German creation, which has never been in use in Austria or Austria-Hungary. (Since 1918 the rank of Field Marshal does not any longer exist in Austria). I therefore have taken the liberty to delete the "General-" in the aforementioned sentence.

Carlos