Abstract
The Fragile “Home Front”. Mobilisation and Livelihood in the Hinterland during the First World War. The imagined community of the “Home Front” in the First World War demanded a high degree of “willingness to make sacrifices” from members of civil society, above all women and children, in order to mobilise their (im-)material resources for the war effort. However, as revealed by the fields of the “food front” and the “school front”, the creation of an imperial community of sacrifice ultimately failed – not only on the empire’s periphery, but also in the centre: the imperial capital of Vienna and the Lower Austrian heartland. This attempt at community-building failed due to internal tensions rather than external opponents of the war: victimised groups of wartime society mobilised counter-movements, thereby depriving the civil and military authorities of their legitimacy.
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