LORZ (Lorx), Victor Lorx von Ruszkin (1873–1922), lieutenant-colonel, aide-de-camp to →Archduke Friedrich: 176.
LOVCEN, mountain above Bay of →Catarro in Montenegro, taken by Austrian militia (11 January 1916): 254, 257, 357f.
LÖWY, Siegfried (1857–1931), co-head with →Alice Schalek of official War Welfare organization, →Schwarzgelbe Kreuz (“Black-and-Yellow Cross”), editor of Österreichische Volkszeitung: 236.
“LOYAL AND UPRIGHT IS EVER MY COURSE” (“Üb immer Treu und Redlichkeit”), popular song, based on poem by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776), melody from Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Papageno’s aria, “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen”): 138.
LUBLIN (Map F2), town in central Poland and scene of important battles in 1914: 101.
LUBOMIRSKA, probably Maria (1841–1922), m. Prince Jan Tadeusz Lubomirski (1826–1908); president of Anglo-American Society of Vienna: 236.
LUCAM, Wilhelm von (1820–1900), banker: 357.
LUDENDORFF, Erich (1865–1937), German quartermaster-general who shared with →Paul von Hindenburg command of the armed forces after 1916: 351ff, 415, 437, 521.
LUDWIG, Archduke Karl (1833–1896), brother of →Franz Joseph: 39.
LUDWIG SALVATOR, Archduke (1847–1915), published Die Balearen (7 vols., 1869–91), commemorative statue in Majorca: 486.
LUDWIG III (1845–1921), King of Bavaria (1913–18): 176f.
LUEGER, Karl (1844–1910), mayor of Vienna, co-founder of Christian Social Party, exploited prevalent anti-Semitism: 31.
LURION, café-cum-music-hall on the then somewhat disreputable “Spittelberg” in Siebensterngasse (Plan A4): 419.
LUSITANIA, British passenger ship sunk off the south coast of Ireland by a →U-boat (7 May 1915): 148, 193f, 355, 547.
LÜTGENDORF, Baron Kasimir von (1862–1958), general who ordered bayoneting of three medical orderlies for drunkenness in →Chabatz on 18 August 1914, for which he was sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Vienna War Crimes tribunal in June 1920; never put on trial for the massacre of 120 →Serbian civilians that took place at the same time (see chapter on “Der Fall Lütgendorf” in Anton Holzer, Das Lächeln der Henker): 387ff.
LUTSK (Map G2), scene in Ukraine of catastrophic defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army (under →Archduke Joseph Ferdinand) in June 1916 at the start of the →Brusilov offensive, resulting in exceptionally heavy Austrian casualties: 354, 357f, 360, 365, 367f.
MACKENSEN, August von (1849–1945), Prussian field marshal, army chief in Poland, →Serbia, and →Romania: 129, 271.
MADE IN GERMANY, intended as stigma by British regulation of 1887, retained by Germans as sign of quality: 148, 158, 292, 297.
MADMAN Takes Control of Cab Horse (V, 8), an incident, described in Die Fackel (F 418–22, April 1916), which symbolized for Kraus the madness of militarism driving Austria to its destruction under an “apocalyptic horseman” (V, 54): 427f, 513.
MANIFESTO OF THE INTELLECTUALS OF GERMANY (Aufruf an die Kulturwelt, October 1914), with 93 signatories, soon rising to 4,000 luminaries, in defence of Germany as a Kulturnation: 304, 329, 332.
MARIA ANNUNZIATA, Archduchess (1876–1961), half-sister of →Franz Ferdinand, abbess in Prague: 275, 321, 486.
MARIA FEODOROVNA (1847–1928), mother of Tsar Nicholas II, mother-in-law of →Alexandra Feodorovna: 360ff.
MARIA JOSEFA, Archduchess (1867–1944), mother of future →Emperor Karl, turned her palace into a military hospital and assisted with nursing: 252.
MARIA THERESA, Archduchess (1855–1944), wife of Karl Ludwig, elder brother of →Franz Joseph, stepmother and confidante of →Franz Ferdinand: 275.
MARIE VALERIE, Archduchess (1868–1924), youngest daughter of →Franz Joseph, m. →Franz Salvator (1890): 275.
MARISCHKA, Hubert Josef (1882–1959), popular actor and operetta tenor (star of →Der Sterngucker), director of →Theater an der Wien (from 1916), librettist, film actor: 30, 484, 489ff.
MARNE, French river where initial German thrust through Belgium was halted in September 1914: 561.
MARS, Mela (1882–1919), cabaret singer and diseuse: 48.
MARTIUS, Karl (1879–1946), surgeon-general to German supreme command (1914–16): 406.
MASURIAN LAKES (“swamps”, Map F1), in East Prussia, where many Russian troops met their death while →Paul von Hindenburg became a national hero after Battle of →Tannenberg (August 1914): 170ff, 340, 355.
MAX, Archduke Maximilian Eugen Ludwig (1895–1952), major, brother of future →Emperor Karclass="underline" 253, 275, 481f, 487.
MEANS OF LIFE, ENDS OF LIFE (Lebensmittel, Lebenszweck), a play on →Immanuel Kant’s “categorical imperative” that one must treat all rational beings as ends, not as means; also implies that means of subsistence (Lebensmittel, foodstuffs) should not be the purpose of existence (Lebenszweck): 146f, 150, 151f, 157f, 160, 509, 585, 593.
MEDUSA, Italian submarine, sunk 10 June 1915: 142.
MERCHANTS, Werner Sombart’s Händler und Helden: Patriotische Besinnungen (1915) sets noble military heroes against morally debased merchants — a riposte against the claim that free trade replaces armed struggle in the evolutionary process: 151f, 292, 586.
MESSAGERO, Der (Il Messagero), conservative Roman daily: 84.
MICHAELERPLATZ (Plan B3), square where patriotic music was played by military bands, adjacent to →Hofburg: 448.
MILLERAND, Alexandre (1869–1943), French minister of war (1914–15): 83.
MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, Baron Karl →Heinold von Udynski.
MINNA VON BARNHELM (1767), →Gotthold Lessing’s evergreen comedy, based on events at the end of the Seven Years War (1756–63). The good sense of the Saxon heiress Minna overcomes the stiff-necked pride of the impoverished Prussian officer Tellheim: 402.
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Map F5), where Austrians annihilated a →Serb division (early September 1914): 539.
MITTAGSZEITUNG, midday issue of Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung (1905–21): 196.
“MITZI, MITZI, BE NICE TO YOUR FRITZI” (“Mizzerl, Mizzerl, sei doch netter”), waltz, music by Béla Laszky (1867–1935) and lyrics by Beda (Fritz Löhner, 1883–1942): 534.
MOB, military jargon for period of mobilisation: 226.
MOLENAAR, Heinrich (1870–1965), author of war poems and a pamphlet against smoking entitled Warum ist der Kampf gegen den Tabakgenuss eine nationale Pflicht?: 271.
MOLTKE, Count Helmuth von (1848–1916), nephew of his namesake, “the great Moltke”, resigned as chief of the German General Staff (14 September 1914), acting chief from January 1915: 284f.
MONTECUCCOLI, Count Rudolf (1843–1922), admiral, commander in chief of Austro-Hungarian navy (1904–13): 77f.
MONTE GABRIELE, mountain north of →Gorizia, scene of mass slaughter during sixth — ninth battles of →Isonzo: 549.
MONTENUOVO, Prince Alfred de (1854–1927), imperial chamberlain: 36ff, 121ff.
MONTE SAN MICHELE, south-west of →Gorizia, fiercely contested mountaintop during battles of →Isonzo: 335f.
MONTSCHI →Sternberg.
MORGEN, Der, liberal weekly, organ of “Reichsorganisation der Hausfrauen Österreichs” (Rorö): 211f.
MORSEY, Baron Franz von (1854–1926), chamberlain to →Duchess Sophie von Hohenberg Chotek: 38.
MOSER, Ferdinand (1867–1938), scene painter: 493.
“MOTHER-IN-LAW — MOTHER-IN-LAW — THAT WOULD BE THE FINAL STRAW” (“Wir brauchen — keine — Schwiegermamama”, 1888), march, music by Ernst Simon (1850–1916) and lyrics by Max Althans: 534.