 The 31st Brigade was formed by four battalions of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of Brasov, composed by Hungarians in majority with some Rumanians and Germans, and by the 1st Battalion of 62nd Infantry regiment from Mars-Vasarhely, now Târgu Mureș in Rumania, formed by Hungarians and Rumanians.On June 23, 1917, he was given the command of the XIII Army Corps part of the Colonel General Karl Tersztyánszky von Nádas (October 28, 1854 – March 7, 1921) 3rd Army, deployed in Stanislau, modern day Ivano-Frankivsk, in western Ukraine, a sector of the Russian theater.It was there that his career had a major setback.