Verbovačky (vojenské odvody) v žilinskom slúžnovskom obvode Trenčianskej stolice v prvej polovici 19. storočia

Musterungen (Assentierungen) im Stuhlbezirk Zsolna (Sillein, Žilina) in der trentschiner Gespanschaft in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Vojenská história, 20, 1, 2016, pp.43-52

Autor: LIŠČÁK Marián

LIŠČÁK, Marián: Verbovačky (vojenské odvody) v žilinskom slúžnovskom obvode Trenčianskej stolice v prvej polovici 19. storočia

LIŠČÁK, Marián: Musterungen (Assentierungen) im Stuhlbezirk Zsolna (Sillein, Žilina) in der trentschiner Gespanschaft in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Vojenská história, 20, 1, 2016, pp.43-52.

The issue of conscriptions belongs among the unjustly neglected research topics in Slovak military historiography. Therefore, the author’s detailed outline on the conscriptions in the Žilina Chair District is a particularly inspiring and beneficial one. Conscription was a part of the so called “recruitment process” consisting of two main stages. Conscription was aimed at acquiring new recruits. At the second stage, they were escorted to a selected place for medical examination or delivery of the recruits to the respective regiment. Practically, all soldiers recruited from these chairs were assigned, based on the conscription system from 1781, to the regiments in Trenčín, mainly to the 2nd infantry and 8th hussar regiment. Acquisition of fresh troops for the imperial army was the most important part of the conscription. In fact, the entire burden lay on the reeves and their town councils, jurors and other “servants”. The author states that from the half of the 18th century, the competences and therefore also obligations started to be transferred to the local self-governance, whereby the bureaucracy in the higher places should have been simplified. Municipality has become a kind of basic administrative cell of the monarchy. This also included the duties regarding acquisition of new military recruits. Municipalities used their own recruitment methods to fulfil the required quotas, always having a particular sum of money allocated to be spent for the given purpose as a part of the budget. Some of the chair officers visited the villages to perform this task. Thus, the chair administration got the picture on the number of prospective recruits and therefore was able to determine quotas for individual municipalities.

Keywords: Military History. Slovakia in Hungary. 1st half of the 19th Century. Conscriptions in the Žilina Chair District of the Trenčín County in the 1st half of the 19th Century.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69809/vojhist.2016.20..3

Ročník: 20 | Číslo: 1/2016 | Stránky: 43-52