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"FRANZ SCHONAICH, FREIHERR VON (1843-1916), AustroHungarian general of infantry and Minister of War, was born at Vienna in 1843, and entered the army as a lieutenant in 1861. He spent the greater part of his service on the general staff and on special employments, especially as a chief of sections in the War ltlinistry. For a short time in command of the IX. Corps he became head of the Austrian Imperial Ministry of Defence, after which he took over the charge of the Imperial War Ministry. Schenaich had an attractive persona p ity, was a practised orator, and well-informed in political matters. Therefore he knew how to maintain good relations with the parliamentary parties, to whom his capacity as an organizer, in the crisis of the winter of 1908-9 (the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), was of great advantage. He was less successful in connexion with the Defence Act of 1911, the financial basis of which he was only able to arrange with important restrictions and serious limitations. In this matter he came into conflict with other influential personages, a circumstance which led to his retirement in the autumn of 1911. During the World War he was in supreme command of the War Provisioning Department, and died at that post in the spring of 1916.