List of World War I flying aces from Austria-Hungary


This list of World War I flying aces from Austria-Hungary contains the names of aviators from the countries ruled by the Habsburg dynasty. Austria-Hungary was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary which existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. Its territory contained a melange of nationalities. Although the aces of the K.u.k. Luftfahrtruppen owed their military allegiance to the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a whole, they came from various ethnic groups. Despite the Hungarian government's policy of Magyarization, many inhabitants of that kingdom clung to their ethnic identities. The breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire post World War I saw the formation of independent nations from some of these ethnic groups.

Flying aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

NameVictoriesBirthplaceNationNotes
Godwin von Brumowski35WadowiceKingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Leading Austro-Hungarian ace of the war and leading ace from present-day Poland.
Julius Arigi32DěčínKingdom of Bohemia Leading ace from present-day Czech Republic.
Benno Fiala von Fernbrugg28ViennaArchduchy of Austria below the Enns Leading ace from present-day Austria.
Frank Linke-Crawford27KrakówKingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
József Kiss de Elemér et Ittebe19PozsonyKingdom of Hungary Leading ace from present-day Slovakia.
Ferenc Gräser18NyírmadaKingdom of Hungary
Eugen Bönsch16Kingdom of Bohemia
István Fejes16GyőrKingdom of Hungary
Ernst Strohschneider15Ústí nad LabemKingdom of Bohemia
Adolf Heyrowsky12MurauDuchy of Styria
Kurt Gruber11LinzArchduchy of Austria above the Enns
Franz Rudorfer11ViennaArchduchy of Austria below the Enns
Miroslav Navratil10SarajevoProvince of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sole ace from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ethnic Croat
Raoul Stojsavljevic10InnsbruckDuchy of Tyrol Ethnic Croat
Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield9Castelnuovo Kingdom of Croatia The only ace born in present-day Montenegro.
Otto Jindra9Chlumec nad CidlinouKingdom of Bohemia
Georg Kenzian von Kenzianshausen9LinzArchduchy of Austria above the Enns
Ferdinánd Udvardy9Pozsony Kingdom of Hungary
Károly Kaszala8NyitraKingdom of Hungary
Heinrich Kostrba8PragueKingdom of Bohemia
Sándor Tahy8NyíregyházaKingdom of Hungary
Josef Friedrich7CvikovKingdom of Bohemia
Ludwig Hautzmayer7FürstenfeldDuchy of Styria
Otto Jäger7AschKingdom of Bohemia
József von Maier7Pozsony Kingdom of Hungary
János Risztics7BudapestKingdom of Hungary
Andreas Dombrowski6Mährisch-OstrauDuchy of Moravia
János Frint6BudapestKingdom of Hungary
Sándor Kasza6BácskosuthfalvaKingdom of Hungary
Karl Nikitsch6Gross-Czakowitz Kingdom of Bohemia
Franz Peter6ViennaArchduchy of Austria below the Enns
Josef Pürer6Brno or SchönauDuchy of Moravia, ethnic Austrian
Roman Schmidt6VaraždinKingdom of Croatia Only ace from present-day Croatia
Rudolf Weber6SighișoaraPrincipality of Transylvania Only ace of the war born in present-day Romania
Gyula Busa5BudapestKingdom of Hungary
Frigyes Hefty5Pozsony Kingdom of Hungary
Julius Kowalczik5OstravaDuchy of Upper and Lower Silesia
Franz Lahner5Bad GoisernArchduchy of Austria above the Enns
Friedrich Lang5Austria
János Lasi5Katy Kingdom of Hungary,Ethnic Croat, only ace of the Luftfahrtruppen born in present-day Serbia.
Béla Macourek5Pozsony Kingdom of Hungary
Kurt Nachod5BrnoDuchy of Moravia
Augustin Novák5BotenwaldDuchy of Moravia
Karl Patzelt5Craiova, BohemiaKingdom of Bohemia
Alois Rodlauer5Urfahr-UmgebungArchduchy of Austria above the Enns
Rudolf Freiherr von Szepessy-Sokoll5Kingdom of Hungary
Karl Teichmann5HrabišínDuchy of Moravia
Karl Urban5GrazDuchy of Styria
Franz Wognar5Nagyszombat Kingdom of Hungary