SOCIÁLNÍ ZÁZEMÍ GÁŽISTŮ SLOVENSKÉ ARMÁDY (1939 – 1940)

Material provision of professional officers and warrant officers was one of the important elements of their on-duty and off-duty life. Service benefits were graded according to military rank, status group, and degree of military and civilian education. They were intended for providing decent housing, procuring the basic life necessities and food, spending a pleasant leave to recuperate, and last but not least, claiming various types of service uniforms. The basis for the payment of service benefits can be found in the practice of the former Czechoslovak Army, where the conditions of entitlement to service salary and other additional allowances were contained in the Czechoslovak service regulation Sm 100 and instead of Czechoslovak crowns, Slovak crowns were quoted at a ratio of 1:1. On the example of individual life situations, the author illustrates how the military administration was able to take care of professional officers and warrant officers, how it financially secured their social status and family background in 1939/1940.