I think, but I do not know 100% sure, that Steinadler offers currently on the homepage the new original Austrian army model which tends to fall in pieces after a few days, weeks or month.
The Austrian army is still a general conscription army. They wanted to stop issuing used boots and similar like the last German Army boot model of the general conscription german army which lasts round about a year, the Austrians ordered cheaper boots to gift them new to every new soldier. Unfortunately they made a construction fault somehow, the stuff became to weak.
The young men go and buy privately the old model!
This is the old one, and as you see, it's looking different.
army-warehouse.com
This shop offers Steinkogler boots as well as Austrian Army boots (old models) from other makers. If you have more questions you should ask them, I think they speak and write English too.
I think both models are made by several makers in and outside Austria, Italy is well known for shoes, Hungary too and other neighbours can do it too, they buy them everywhere in Europe.
Steinkogler still makes an even earlier pattern and sells it to private clients. The round about 30 shoemakers they have, have much enough to work to deliver traditional made civil hiking boots or the older army models to private clients, which surely are often officers and usual soldiers too, but Steinkogler currently doesn't deliver directly to the Austrian Army, because they weren't able to agree in a realistic price for Austrian hand made high quality boots for the Austrian Army.
You can get pretty expensive civil Steinkogler mountain boots everywhere in Austria but I never have seen them offered in Germany. They just sell theyr products to Austrian shoe shops and that's all they need. Different to other makers they don't use the name to sell foreign made stuff.
Every Steinkogler boot is an Austrian made high quality boot, made like the father or grandfather made them, no modern compromises, no foreign manufacturer or factories.
I highly recommend to avoid to buy the last modern looking model of the Austrian Army from Steinadler or anywhere else.
They can fall in pieces within a couple of days in army use, as far as I am informed.
I think you can get the old model from Army Warehose, which seems to be fine and if you want to be sure to get a high end product, you should invest in a Steinadler boot. (Offered as custom made othopedic version in individual measures in theyr workshop too after appointment with the boss.)
I bought from "Geiger Schuhe" in Frittlingen (Black forest area) other civil hiking boots in individual measures (Bernina in brown) so I don't own a pair of Steinkogler boots.
But my family went for many years for skiing to Austria and we rented our holyday apartment in the house of a Tyrolian orthopedic shoemaker master and spoke a lot with him about boots, because my grandfather had been a shoemaker too, and my father was a passionate hiker, as a student he had walked from Flensburg to Konstanz for example, which means Germany from north to south in two month exclusively walking.
That Tyrolian orthopedic shoemaker master also sold a few pairs of "usual" shoes, and that had been nearly exclusively pretty expensive Steinkogler hiking boots. (We came in similar boots so we didn't buy them.) The guy's workshop was a bit hidden in a very little village. I guess, he sold 95 % off his boots and shoes to his neighbours.
This guy sold exclusively own products and Steinkogler boots and a few house shoes and as far I remember it right, he offered nothing else.
Once I called Steinkoglers office. The Lady at the telephone (Probably Mrs.Steinkogler I guess) told me, that they produce exclusively traditional made high quality boots and that they aren't interested in competition with larger brands with lower quality like Meindl, Lowa or Hanwag, which produce a bit at home, usually the double stiched (zwiegenäht) versions, and a lot of stuff everywhere one can imagine. Steinkogler prefers to keep the old good name instead of becoming as rich as possible.
The orthopedic measurement exclusively is made by Master Steinkogler himself. For him that's obviously more important than a Porsche collection which other German spaking former shoemaker families seem to want. Perhaps he owns an old Austrian made Mercedes G. Who knows...
Old Völkl (the shoemaker, not the ski maker) died a few years ago. Before he died he sold his manufacture to an eastern German army and working boot factory. When he died, this factory went bankrupt because in this time the German army stopped the general conscription. German officers and mountain troops as well as border police and normal police usually wear HAIX boots, that means higher quality stuff, the factory which bought Völkl delivered before only the one year lasting simple soldiers boot to the German army.
They cutted out the wealthy Völkl manufacture, which still offers traditional made double stiched (zwiegenäht) all leather boots, if you visit the homepage you can see that old fashioned stuff.
But attention! They obviously got earlier or later also machines of the eastern German military boot maker and they sell this totally different stuff too, here as hunting boots in modern design. I owned the eastern German made German army boots. They had been very comfortable, very water proof and pretty light. But they weren't long lasting. Perhaps the current Völkl hunting boots last longer, perhaps not. I can't tell you that. The now by HAIX made simple German Army soldiers boot, which you don't find on the homepage, but which is delivered to the German army also doesn't last much longer than a year if you walk a lot in it, by the way. No reason to get them...
I guess the civil old fashioned ones from Völkl are more or less like the ones you owned, but they are lower, civil hiking and mountain boot models.
Völkl is a very small manufacturer. I guess there are a few old shoemakers wo make the complicated old stuff and a few new ones who make the modern stuff which doesn't really fit into the concept in my opinion. But that doesn't matter. Meindl does it too, good boots, double stiched in Germany, but also dog walking shoes from Mr. Ding Dang Dong with Meindl badge.
Hanwag is currently owned by Fjälräven and settled over to Croatia. No German production any more like no Fjällräven sewing machine is working in Sweden any more, they just use the old brands.
Lowa like Haix doesn't offer double stiched all leather boots and so I am not interested in them. No Idea, what they do where. Haix delivers to the German army, I think several models of Lowa boots are allowed to use there. I think both can be resolved by the manufacturer. But my Geiger boots could repair my shoemaker master next corner, becausevtgey arevmade like hiking boots should be made: in the traditional way.
What Army Warehouse in Austria offers are such traditional made army boots, the light ones single stiched for flat country, the heavy ones double stiched for the mountains. The cheap ones probably from Italy, Hungary and Croatia, if not a few from Austria too, the expensive once from Steinkogler in the a bit older pattern.
Who is interested in Austrian stuff should contact Army Warehose in Austria or directly Steinkogler himself.
If you look around on the homepage from Army Warehose and look at the prices you should know, that "neu" means "new" and "gebraucht" means "used". The olive green original army stuff is pretty cheap and often civil looking. If you prefere polyester-cotton mix clothing, tell it them if you order usual field uniforms, the newer ones exist in a mix fabric as well as in a pure cotton version too.
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