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1915 Tábori posta levelezőlap csíkszentkirályi és krasznahorkai Liechtenstein-Andrássy Mária Gabriella (1886-1961) hercegnőnek Budapestre, német nyelvű üzenettel, férje, az S. M. S. Wildfang Prinz Johann von Liechtenstein (1873-1959) aláírásával. Liechtensteini János több hajón szolgált és az első világhború végén a Monarchia haditengerészetének nevében ő írta alá a fegyverszünet az antant csapatokkal. / 1915 Feldpostkorrespondenzkarte addressed to Princess Liechtenstein-Andrássy in Budapest, with full message in German, signed by her husband, Korvettenkapitän Prinz Johann von Liechtenstein. Johann, Prinz von und zu Liechtenstein (Johannes Franz Alfred Maria Caspar Melchior Balthasar), was born in Vienna on January 6, 1873, the Festivity of the Three Kings, which explains his three last given names, and died in Hollenegg on September 3, 1959. He was the son of Prince Alfred Louis of Liechtenstein (born in Prague on July 11, 1842; died in Frauenthal castle on October 8, 1907, and the grandson Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein (1802?1887), who was a son of Johann I Joseph, ruling Prince of Liechtenstein (r. 1805-1836). Prince Franz de Paula was a nephew of Prince Aloys I (r. 1781-1805), brother of Prince Aloys II (r. 1836-1858), and uncle of Princes Johann II (r. 1858-1929) and Franz I (r. 1929-1938). On 6 September, 1906, Prince Johannes married Countess Mária Gabriella Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (1886-1961) in Budapest); the couple had four sons, three of whom had issue. Prince Johannes?s father, Prince Alfred Louis, was an active patron of the Austrian Navy League, founded in 1904 to promote Austria navalism, and became its third president in 1910. His son joined the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine on October 1, 1890. Johannes von und zu Liechtenstein was gazetted Linienschiffsleutnant on November 1, 1901; and Fregattenkapitän on November 1, 1916. He served as naval attaché at the Palazzo Venezia, the site of the Austrian Embassy in Rome, between 1912 and 1915. ?In the autumn of 1913, after being denied an invitation to Italian naval gunner exercises, [the Prince] attempted to view them from a passing civilian steamer. His ingenuity led to an unpleasant brush with Italian officials, briefly stirring up speculation that he might be expelled from the country.?1 Prince Johann, in command of the destroyers S.M.S. Balaton and Csepel, fired the first shots of the Battle of Otranto on May 15, 1917. His ships intercepted a small Italian convoy headed for Valona and sank the Italian destroyer Borea and three other ships carrying a cargo of ammunition. But his destroyers were 150 miles due south of Horthy?s cruisers raiding the Otranto Barrage, and Captain Prince Liechtenstein had to use all of his naval skills to outrun a much larger and more powerful Allied force and make it safely to Austrian-held Durazzo. At the time of the Cattaro mutiny, in early February 1918, the officer corps at Cattaro included some of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine?s best ship captains, among them Fregattenkapitän Prince Johann Liechtenstein, of S.M.S. Novara, and Linienschiffkapitän Erich Heyssler, of S.M.S. Helgoland (born in 1869, gazetted Linienschiffkapitän on November 1, 1914). The munity broke out in the larger ships, the armored cruisers S.M.S. Sankt Georg and Kaiser Karl VI and spread with varying degrees of enthusiasm or hesitation to other ships, as parties of armed mutineers moved about the fleet to induce or coerce others into joining them. Prince Liechtenstein and Heyssler, in command of in the rapid cruisers, the cream of the real fighting fleet, had earned their men?s respect and managed to keep their crews in hand, as resistance to the mutiny began to take shape in the lighter craft. Heyssler thought of using Helgoland?s torpedoes but Sankt Georg trained her 24-cm guns on the rapid cruiser. It was a dangerous stand-off that repeated itself on board S.M.S. Novara where Liechtenstein and his officers had prevented a delegation of mutineers from boarding the ship only to find Kaiser Karl VI?s 24-cm guns aimed at their cruiser. Sank Georg sent an ultimatum: ships that had not hoisted the red flag by a specified time would be fired on. To keep control of the situation, Liechtenstein and Heyssler allowed the red flag to be raised at the foretop on condition that the men maintain discipline and discharge their duties; the imperial naval ensign remained at the stern. Their aim was to avoid a bloodbath, prevent the men from doing anything foolish, and stall for time. However, they always felt ashamed of their actions; Liechtenstein, a member of the ruling family of the Principality of Liechtenstein, found the ?red rag? particularly odious and offensive. In the afternoon of February 2, as the harbor watch ship, the old ram cruiser S.M.S. Kronprinz Erzherzog Rudolf, defied warnings from the loyal army garrison in the Bocche and moved from its position at the entrance of the Bay of Cattaro to new anchorage in the Bay of Teodo, a 15-cm gun from one of the shore batteries opened fire on the rebel vessel and hit her amidships, killing one sailor and wounding several others. With this ?whiff of grapeshot,? the rebels? solidarity began to crumble. Liechtenstein was the first to haul down the despised ?red rag? from S.M.S. Novara and to move the cruiser into the inner harbor of Cattaro. He gave any crewmembers afraid of the mutineers? guns the chance to leave and between 200 and 250, almost half the men, did so, some in great panic. Heyssler followed with S.M.S. Helgoland; thereafter most of the destroyers and torpedo boats struck the red flag of the mutineers and sailed into the safety of the inner port. Faced with the option of facing the heavy guns of the mutinous armored cruisers or the far more numerous and better trained guns of the shore batteries, the latter appeared the greater of two evils even to the diehard rebels among the crews of the smaller craft. Heyssler, now senior officer in the loyalist ships, led his men in three cheers for the emperor. The mutiny was essentially over. In October 1918, as the empire began to collapse and unravel, Admiral Horthy appointed Liechtenstein, his successor as officer in command of S.M.S. Novara, to the armistice commission. On orders from Kaiser Karl, the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine was turned over to the South Slavs on October 31, but Italian and Austro-Hungarian negotiators continued to engage in armistice talks at Villa Giusti, outside Padua, as if the Habsburg fleet had never been transferred to Yugoslav control. The armistice was finally signed on November 3, 1918, Captain Johann von und zu Liechtenstein signing on behalf of a navy that had ceased to exist and an empire that had eight more days to live.