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The study’s subject is the assistance for the victims of World War I in Austria. It explains the numerous measures taken in favour of disabled veterans and war widows during the war and in the post-war period and describes the powerful organisations of the invalids. The assistance for war victims expressed very early social policy as supported by the state.

disabled veterans, war victims, welfare state, social security, first world war --- Kriegsbeschädigte, Kriegsopfer, Sozialstaat, Fürsorge, Erster Weltkrieg