7th Mountain Warfare Congress · Lecturer
Dr Tomasz Pomykacz
Historian · PhD in History
National Museum of the Przemyśl Region · Przemyśl, Poland
Biography
Tomasz Pomykacz holds a PhD in History and is currently employed at the National Museum of the Przemyśl Region in Przemyśl, Poland. His research interests focus on the political history of Austria-Hungary and the First World War, with particular emphasis on the history of the Przemyśl Fortress.
He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular-science publications, including Hungarians in the Przemyśl Fortress 1914–1915, Vol. 1: Unit Structure, Deployment, and Combat Operations from the Outbreak of the War to the Beginning of the Second Siege of the Fortress (August 1914 – Early November 1914).
Austro-Hungarian and Russian War Plans and Their Execution (1914–1915)
Presentation Abstract
The presentation outlines the fundamental premises of the war plans developed by Austria-Hungary and Russia before the outbreak of the First World War and examines the consequences of their failure to execute those plans during the summer and autumn of 1914.
As the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Russia unfolded, fighting shifted towards the foothills and mountainous terrain of the Carpathians. The presentation traces the successive stages of the campaign in this region, culminating in the turning point brought about by the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive in May 1915, which resulted in the expulsion of Russian forces from the Carpathian region.