Editing Tegetthoff-class battleship (section)

=== Costs ===
The costs to construct the ''Tegetthoff''-class battleships were enormous by the standards of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. While the {{sclass|Habsburg|battleship|0}}, {{sclass|Erzherzog Karl|battleship|0}}, and the ''Radetzky''-class battleships cost the navy roughly 18, 26, and 40 million ''Kronen'' per ship,{{sfn|Sondhaus|1994|p=192}} each ship of the ''Tegetthoff'' class was projected to cost over 60 million ''Kronen''.{{sfn|Sieche|1991|p=116}} Under the previous budgets for 1907 and 1908, the navy had been allocated some 63.4 and 73.4 million ''Kronen'', which at the time was considered an inflated budget due to the construction of two ''Radetzky''s. Montecuccoli worried that the general public and the legislatures in Vienna and Budapest would reject the need for the expensive ships, especially so soon after the political crisis in Budapest. The dramatic increase in spending meant that in 1909 the navy spent some 100.4 million ''Kronen'', a huge sum at the time. This was done in order to rush the completion of the ''Radetzky''-class battleships, though the looming construction of four dreadnoughts meant the Austro-Hungarian Navy would likely have to ask the government for a yearly budget much higher than 100 million ''Kronen''.{{sfn|Sondhaus|1994|p=192}}

In order to guarantee funding for the ships from the [[Rothschild banking family of Austria|Rothschild family in Austria]], who owned the Witkowitz Ironworks, the [[Creditanstalt]] Bank, and had significant assets in both the Škoda Works and the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Archduke Franz Ferdinand personally courted [[Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild]] in order to obtain his family's monetary support until the government could buy the ships.{{sfn|Vego|1996|p=62}}{{sfn|Gebhard|1968|pp=203–204}}