He was a reserve officer during the First World War, serving with the rank of Oberleutnant in the Fourth Army on the Galician front from March 1915.
Stary Korczyn was the subject of a well-known painting from World War I, Erstürmung des Dorfes Stary Korczyn durch das Landsturminfanterieregiment Nr. 1, 22. Dez. 1914 (Attack on the Village of Stary Korczyn by the Vienna First Infantry Regiment on December 22, 1914), by Alfred Basel, now hanging in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
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