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Emmerich Hádfy von  Livno

FML Emmerich Hadfy von Livno began the war in charge of the 39. Honvéd Infantry Division.  He kept this up until September 1915, when he was superceded by GM Blasius von Dani.  Hadfy was then appointed to take charge of Korps Henriquez, whose commander Johann Ritter von Henriquez was chosen to command the XII. Corps.  Thereafter, the redesignated Korps Hadfy was led by the FML until April 1917, when the force was redesignated the XXVI. Corps.  But Hadfy retained command of this force until July.  Then it was turned over to GdI Friedrich Csanády von Békés, who ended up leading it less than a month before it was placed in the hands of FML Ernst Horsetzky Edler von Hornthal until wars' end.  Hadfy was then was appointed to lead the VI. Corps from July 1917, thus replacing GdI Friedrich Csanady von Bekes.  Hadfy commanded this Corps until December of that year, when he was replaced by FML Adalbert Sorsic von Severin, who dismantled the VI. Corps during his short tenure.  GdI Hadfy was given command of the VIII. Corps in March 1918, replacing FZM Sigmund Graf von Begnini in Muldenburg.  He retained this command for one month, when the whole force was reorganised as the I. Generalkommando.  GdI Hadfy then was given command of the XXIII. Corps that month in place of GdI Maximilian Csicserics, but he did not last long.  FML Emil Ritter von Gologorski was given an interrim command until Csicserics could return, which he did in March.  Hadfy meanwhile took control of the newly designated 1. Generalkommando, which lasted from April until July, when Hadfy handed it over to FML Johann Haber.  Then Hadfy returned to the XXIII. Corps, and Csicserics bowed out in Hadfy's favour in July 1918.  However, Hadfy suddenly transferred to command the XXIV. Corps, allowing Csicserics to preside over the XXIII. Corps until wars' end.  Meantime, Hadfy replaced FZM Ferdinand Ritter Goglia von Zlota Lipa and remained in command of the force until October, when he was overtaken by FML Rudolf Schamschula von Simontornya, who basically demobilised the army, as the war was all but over. GWS, 3/02

Orders of Battle:  Polish Front, January 1915 IV. Armee, Gen. d. Inf. Erzherzog Josef Ferdinand Arz von Straußenberg Group VI. Korps, Feldmlt. Arz von Straußenberg   XXXIX. Honved inf. div., Feldmlt. Hadfy Beginning in February, Hadfy was in command of the 39. Infantry division, which commanded an 8 km long sector about 10 km north of Gorlice, perhaps the most important location in the Battles for the Carpathians.  His troops guarded the place where two railways met, one from Jaslo and the other from Tarnów.  From that point, level ground led the railway to the city of Neusandec, which was a heavily contested location in December.  Divisions from the Russian X. Corps were Hadfy’s main opponents.  At the end of February, Hadfy was effectively made a Corps commander when he was given authority over the Combined Honvéd Infantry Division (shortly renamed the 51. Honvéd) as well as his own.  On 8 March 1915, GdI Arz ordered all divisions to attack, and the town of Gorlice was taken, while Hadfy’s troops advanced more than 5 km in some places.  Russian counterattacks in the first week of April forced Hadfy’s troops back to their original lines, but German troops of the 9. Army were already assembling in the rear in preparation for the Great Spring Offensive due to begin at Gorlice. [rev. 4/04] Orders of Battle:  Polish Front, 1 May 1915 Immediately preceding the Dunajec offensive Armee Woyrsch, preuß. Generaloberst v. Woyrsch Deutsche XI. Armee, preuß. Generaloberst v. Mackensen Öst. VI. Korps, Kmdt. Feldmlt. v. Arz     Chief of Staff, Oberst Josef Huber        39. Honvéd inf. div., Feldmlt. v. Hadfy               77. Honvéd inf. brig., Genmj. v. Molnar               78. Honvéd inf. brig., Oberst Daubner               39. field art. brig., Oberst Nowotny Orders of Battle:  Podolian Front, June 1916 VII. Armee, Generaloberst Pflanzer-Baltin Hadfy Group, Feldmlt. Hadfy   XXI. Schützen div., Genmj. Podhajsky   VI. kav. div., Genmj. von Schwer Orders of Battle:  Podolian Front, July 1916 VII. Armee, Generaloberst von Pflanzer-Baltin Hadfy Group, Feldmlt. Hadfy   XXX. inf. div., Genmj. Jesser   V. Honved kav. div., Feldmlt. von Apor   XLII. Honved inf. div., Feldmlt. Snjaric   XXI. Schützen div., Genmj. Podhajsky Orders of Battle:  Podolian Front, August 1916 Army Group Erzherzog Karl, Feldmlt. Erzherzog Karl Franz Josef III. Armee, Generaloberst Kövess von Kövesshaza Hadfy Group, Feldmlt. von Hadfy   XXI. Schützen div., Genmj. Podhajsky   V. Honved kav. div., Feldmlt. von Apor Orders of Battle:  Moldavian Front, November 1916 Prinz Leopold von Bayern Front, Generalfeldmarschal Prinz Leopold Böhm-Ermolli Army Group, Generaloberst von Böhm-Ermolli III. Generaloberst von Kirchbach Hadfy Group, Feldmlt. von Hadfy   XXI. Schützen div., Genmj. von Podhajsky   XLVII. Deutsch res. div., Genlt. von Oppeln-Bronikowski Orders of Battle:  Volhynian Front, July 1917 Army Front Erzherzog Josef, Generaloberst Erzherzog Josef I. K.u.K. Armee, Generaloberst von Rohr VI. Korps, Feldmlt. von Hadfy   CCXXV. Deutsch inf. div., Genmj. von Woyna   XXXIX. Honved inf. div., Genmj. von Breit Orders of Battle:  Volhynian Front, July 1917 Prinz Leopold von Bayern Front, Generalfeldmarschal Prinz Leopold Böhm-Ermolli Group, Gen. d. Inf. von Böhm-Ermolli III. K.u.K. Armee, Generaloberst von Tersztyanszky XXVI. Korps, Feldmlt. von Hadfy   XV. inf. div., Genmj. von Aust   II. kav. div., Genmj. von Abele Orders of Battle:  Italian Front, October 1918 VI. Armee, Gen. d. Kav. Schönburg-Hartenstein XXIV. Korps, Gen. d. Inf. Hadfy von Livno   XLI. Honved inf. div., Feldmlt. Schamschula von Simontornya   LI. Honved inf. div., Genmj. Daubner