[1] Alfred Krauss was born in Zadar, the son of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff Doctor Dr. med.

His younger brother, Rudolf Krauss (1863–1943), also achieved the rank of general of the infantry during the First World War.

Alfred and Ida Krauss were buried in the evangelical cemetery in Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee in a high grave.

At the beginning of the war, this was part of the 5th Army under General of the Infantry Liborius Ritter von Frank in Syrmia.

On 23 December 1914, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Balkan Forces, whose command after Oskar Potiorek was recalled was taken over by Archduke Eugen in January 1915.

On 27 May 1915, after Italy entered the war, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the newly formed Southwest Front on the Isonzo.

In mid-September 1917, his large unit moved to Italy and was subordinated to the newly established German 14th Army as the right wing and made available for the counter-offensive in the Battle of Caporetto.

[5] From 1927 until his death in 1938, he was one of the editors of the Pan-German and National Socialist magazine Deutschlands Erneuerung, which was founded in 1917 and which appeared continuously until 1944.

[6] On 1 April 1938, following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, Krauss was granted the right to wear a uniform with the insignia of rank of a German general of the infantry.