Does anybody know what front(s) did he serve on, and was he mobilised to the army or did he volunteer?
He served on the Eastern front, though for Austria, this was the northern front. I believe he was mobillised, but for all this and much more just see Hulsmann’s biograpy of Mises.
Interesting. I didn’t know he was a soldier. Thank the gods he wasn’t killed…
Do you think this might play into why he was for Conscription?
Kind of an emotional / congnitive dissonance he would have overcome. Affected by the propaganda?
He was forced to serve, right? Or did he volunteer.
Yes, I see that part is avaliable on google book preview. A nice read, though I had an eyebrow raising moment reading the sentance: “And on the front, treason showed its ugly face when, on April 3 and 4, 1915, the infantry regiment no.28 from Prague was captured without resistance.” [page 265] I really do not see the need to speak in negative terms of understandable tendancy of valiant Czechs to prefer Russian captivity or service in the Czech Legions to serving as cannon fodder for their oppresors.
He was a reserve officer and was so called up. But he did volunteer to become a reserve officer and passed the course for it in his youth.
Anyway it is not surprising. AJP Taylor called Austrian Jews “the only real Austrians”. They were very patriotic (after the emancipation).