![]() Cohen says that this readiness to dismiss the vulnerable nephew as a viable heir planted in him a seed of resentment toward the Habsburg Imperial Court (one that would grow). ![]() The coterie who surrounded the emperor - his uncle, Franz Joseph - at one time assumed that Franz Ferdinand would not live to inherit the throne. A whirlwind tour of the Mediterranean, a voyage to Asia and a sightseeing cruise down the Nile all helped to dampen the disease until his lungs healed for good in the late 1890s. The upside of weak lungs? He was sent all over the world for treatment. Many said this was due to his mother, Princess Maria Annunciata, who died of the disease at age 28. ![]() He had bad lungsįranz Ferdinand suffered bouts of tuberculosis during his 20s and early 30s. Cohen is a history professor and director of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Geoffrey Wawro is the author of “A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire” and Richard Ned Lebow is the author of “Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I.” We also drew from the book “Archduke of Sarajevo: The Romance and Tragedy of Franz Ferdinand of Austria” by Gordon Brook-Shepherd. So who was Franz Ferdinand? We asked three experts who have studied that era. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would trigger one of the most brutal wars in modern history, eventually pulling in the Russian Empire, Germany, France, Italy, China, the U.S., Japan and beyond into World War I. One month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In the British House of Commons, Prime Minister HH Asquith described the killing, “ One of those incredible crimes which almost makes us despair of the progress of mankind.”ĭespite the shock of the assassination, nobody could’ve predicted how this one assassination would lead to a World War that would change the world forever.One hundred years ago, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire and his wife were assassinated by a gunman during a drive through Sarajevo. The world was shocked by the assassination, which was not the first assassination to take place in the Balkans during this period. Ultimately that made little difference, for it was a Serbian that killed the Archduke and future leader of Austria Hungary. Princip was not representing the Serbian government instead, he was part of a dissident group that opposed the government. One was fatal for Ferdinand and the second for his wife. He’s saw his opportunity and took out his pistol and fired two shots. The car made a wrong turn and intersected with Gavrilo Princip, who was the third member of a group that wished to assassinate Ferdinand. They continued with the visit, and a second bomb was thrown, but this one did not explode. They were unijured, but one officer was hurt. ![]() On June 28, 1914, Ferdinand and his wife visited City Hall, there a bomb was thrown the car. He had been warned that visiting Sarajevo might be dangerous. As inspector General decided to visit Sarajevo, the capital of the province of Bosnia. He was also the inspector general of the army. The Serbians wanted to detach Bosnia from the Austro- Hungarian Empire.Īrchduke Frans Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassin was a Serbian nationalist whose co-conspirators were in Belgrade. The Archduke had been on a visit to Bosnia. ![]() Prince Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and hsi wife,were assassinated in Sarajevo. The moment when the Austrian archdukes, following the first attempt against their lives, arrived at the City Council (of Sarajevo), where they were received by the mayor and the municipal corporation ![]()
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