Hofkriegsrat
Central military administrative authority of the Habsburg monarchy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Bavarian Hofkriegsrat that existed from 1620 until 1808, see Ministry of War (Kingdom of Bavaria).
The Hofkriegsrat (or Aulic War Council, sometimes Imperial War Council) established in 1556 was the central military administrative authority of the Habsburg monarchy until 1848 and the predecessor of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of War. The agency was directly subordinated to the Habsburg emperors with its seat in Vienna.