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He enrolled at the Infantry Cadet School in Prague in 1879 and served with the infantry in Bohemia and Moravia before attending the War Academy in 1887-1889.
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Ferdinant Baron von Marterer
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Next came a tour of duty with the General Staff and promotion to captain in 1892. Marterer again returned to the infantry, this time in Prague with the Ninety-first Infantry Regiment and in Vienna with the Thirteenth Infantry Division. In 1904 Emperor Francis Joseph appointed Marterer to his military chancellery and advancement and awards came quickly: promotion to colonel in 1905, ennoblement three years later, deputy to chancellery head Baron Arthur von Bolfras in 1910, and promotion to major general that same year.
During the first three years of the Great War, Marterer was entrusted by the military chancellery with various missions between Schönbrunn and the front. Marterer, who before the war had belonged to the Belvedere Circle of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was appointed adjutant general and chief of the military chancellery in the fall of 1916 by Emperor Charles. In this capacity Marterer has often been named in close connection with Charles' decision on March 1, 1917, to relieve General Conrad von Hötzendorf of his post of chief of the General Staff of the army. Marterer was promoted general of infantry in 1917 and although among the ruler's closest military advisers, his influence was marginal on the emperor, who fancied himself gifted in matters of military operations. In any case, Marterer had spent nearly two decades by now at the military chancellery and was far removed from the realities of the front. Charles raised him into the baronage in 1917, and the following year Marterer retired owing to ill health. He died in Vienna on January 29, 1919.
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Nationality
Austria
Education
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1879
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1887 - 1889
Career
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1892
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1910