Staff College (Ge: k.u.k.
Kriegsschule)[1] was the highest military facility to educate, instruct, train, and develop general staff officers of the Austrian Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
War College was an outgrowth of the previous centers of Austrian military scholarship: the Kriegsarchiv and the Österreichische militärische Zeitschrift (Austrian Military Journal).
[2] Having been earlier suggested by the likes of officers including Joseph Radetzky von Radetz,[3] it was organized early in the reign of Emperor Franz Josef.
Among its students and faculty were such influential members of the Austro-Hungarian military as Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, who attended the school and later taught tactics there from 1888 to 1892.