Von Krieglstein was born at Castle St. Georgen an der Stiefing in
Styria,
Austria-Hungary to a family of minor nobility. He attended school in
Graz, and graduated from the Infantry Cadet School in
Liebenau. After serving for two years in a Rifle Battalion based at the
Transylvanian city of Hermann, he was discharged from the Army in 1896 for reasons which are unknown. From 1897 to 1914, von Krieglstein served as a
war correspondent, covering total of 17 battles, revolutions and or expeditions. In 1897 he reported for a
Vienna newspaper on the
Greco-Turkish War (1897) in
Crete. His advocacy for the Turkish led to his arrest by Greek forces, but he was soon released after diplomatic mediation. He then went to work briefly for the press office of the Foreign Ministry of the
Ottoman Empire in
Constantinople. In 1897/98 he covered the activities of the
Venezuelan revolutionary (and future president)
Cipriano Castro and the
Spanish–American War in 1898. He subsequently covered the
Boxer Rebellion in
China (1901–1902), after which he published a book:
The Battles of the German Expeditionary Force in China (1902). During the
Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he was embedded within the
Imperial Japanese Army, but was captured by the Russians. At this time, he was a reporter for the
Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger (
Berlin Local Advertiser). He remained in
Manchuria after the war to cover the
Russian Revolution of 1905. However, in 1911/12 he was in
Tripoli, Libya to cover the
Italo-Turkish War and in 1913/14 was in
Mexico City to cover the
Mexican Revolution. At the outbreak of
World War I, he returned to Austria and volunteered for service in the army. He was killed in combat in September 1914 in
Sieniawa in
Galicia where his
dragoon regiment was stationed. ==See also==