page_title: Austro-Hungarian Navy
section_title: Commanders-in-Chief of the Navy
hierarchical_section_title: Austro-Hungarian Navy / Senior leadership / Commanders-in-Chief of the Navy
caption_attribution_description: English: Austro-Hungarian Navy flag officer's bicorne hat, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien. Heeresgeschichtliches Museum &#160;&#160;Native nameHeeresgeschichtliches MuseumParent institutionMinistry of DefenceLocationViennaCoordinates48°&#160;11′&#160;07.3″&#160;N, 16°&#160;23′&#160;14.6″&#160;E Established1856Web pagewww.hgm.or.atAuthority control : Q700751 VIAF:&#8201;149726120 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0001 2182 8171 LCCN:&#8201;n50055593 OSM:&#8201;4465113 GND:&#8201;2006452-4 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q700751
context_page_description: The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff. Existing between 1867 and 1918, the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine came into being after the formation of Austria-Hungary in 1867, and ceased to exist upon the Empire's defeat and subsequent collapse at the end of World War I. Prior to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the Navy was referred to as the Imperial Austrian Navy or simply the Austrian Navy. It saw action in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second Egyptian–Ottoman War, the First and Second Wars of Italian Independence, the Second Schleswig War, and the Seven Weeks War as well as the simultaneous Third War of Italian Independence. Following Austria's defeat by Prussia and Italy during the Seven Weeks War, the Empire reformed itself into a dual monarchy with the Habsburg monarch ruling as Emperor of Austria over the western and northern half of the country that was the Austrian Empire, and as King of Hungary over the Kingdom of Hungary.
context_section_description: (in German Oberkommandant der Marine. From March 1868 the incumbents of this position were styled Marinekommandant)
  Hans Birch Dahlerup, VAdm. (February 1849–August 1851)
  Franz Graf Wimpffen, VAdm., (August 1851–September 1854)
  Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, VAdm. (September 1854–1861)
  Ludwig von Fautz, VAdm. (1861–March 1865)
  Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, VAdm. (March 1868–April 1871)
  Friedrich von Pöck, Adm. (April 1871–November 1883)
  Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck, Adm. (November 1883–December 1897)
  Hermann von Spaun, Adm. (December 1897–October 1904)
  Graf Rudolf Montecuccoli, Adm. (October 1904–February 1913)
  Anton Haus, Adm./GAdm. (February 1913–February 1917)
  Maximilian Njegovan, Adm. (April 1917–February 1918)
caption: Austro-Hungarian Navy flag officer uniform hat, Museum of Military History, Vienna
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