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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria [a] (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. [2] His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsip]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Count Harrach took up a position on the left-hand running board of Franz Ferdinand's car to protect the Archduke from any assault from the river side of the street. [83] [84] This is confirmed by photographs of the scene outside the Town Hall. At 10:45 a.m, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie got back into the motorcade, once again in the third car. [83]
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg and their three children. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany concluded his visit with Archduke Franz Ferdinand after they discussed the tenuous balance of power in the Balkans, as the Archduke was scheduled later that month to visit military expansion efforts in the region. [52]
The House of Hohenberg is an Austrian and Czech noble family that descends from Countess Sophie Chotek (1868–1914), who in 1900 married Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1863–1914), the heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Her first marriage, on 4 October 1847 in Vienna, was to her first cousin once removed Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821–1849), by whom she had one daughter: Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este (1849–1919), wife of King Ludwig III of Bavaria and Jacobite heir to the thrones of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Walter Tausch was a 20th-century Austrian photojournalist, based in Sarajevo, who recorded the last images of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife minutes before their assassination 28 June 1914, and documented the arrest of a suspect in Sarajevo, erroneously believed to be assassin Gavrilo Princip. Tausch's photographs were sold ...