![]() After that, Bosnia considered the teenager a terrorist. But there was no way he could have known he was setting off the biggest butterfly effect in modern human history.įirst, I should make a note: Gavrilo Princip, for many years, was treated as a national hero in Yugoslavia, before the country was all divvied up-Balkanized-into warring factions. Shooting a man and his wife in cold blood is f**ked up. what am I looking for-oh, right! F**ked up. When Gavrilo-a kid too young to be hanged under Austrian law at the time-pulled his trigger, he was doing something serious. He wasn’t even the first assassin to attack Ferdinand’s motorcade that day.īut chance put Franz Ferdinand and Gavrilo Princip on the same street, at the same time. He’s famous because he got shot in the neck in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, and died, setting off a series of events that would start World War I, which in turn led to the entire 20th century-World War II, the ascension of the United States as a global superpower, the Cold War, right up until the modern day bullsh*t conflicts that plague the world today.įranz is a man famous for being assassinated, but what about his assassin? He was about the opposite of a 50-year-old archduke: a Serbian peasant, only 19 years old when he shot his Browning pistol at the motorcade, first hitting Ferdinand’s wife, then Ferdinand. But Austria-Hungary is in dead empire hell, and that’s not why we care about Franz Ferdinand enough for Scots to name a band after him. I could go on about how he deserves recognition in his own right, for being an archduke and heir apparent to rule the Austro-Hungarian empire. The vehicle in which they were assassinated is on exhibit, together with Ferdinand’s bloody uniform, at the Museum of Military History in Vienna, Austria.If you know anything about World War I or Scottish indie rock from the early 2000s, then you’ve probably heard the name “Franz Ferdinand” before. In the Austrian royal residence Artstetten Castle, Ferdinand was interred next to his wife. Before reaching the hospital, they both died. However, their driver took a false turn and sped straight past Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, who pulled out a gun as the automobile slowly reversed out of the roadway and fired several shots into the vehicle, striking Sophie in the stomach and Franz Ferdinand in the neck. Ferdinand and Sophie decided to visit those injured by the grenade at the hospital after meeting with Potiorek at City Hall. The grenade instead struck the car behind them, critically injuring two occupants, when the driver accelerated after spotting something speeding through the air. On June 28, 1914, a member of the organization threw a grenade at the couple as they were walking from the train station to the City Hall. Unbeknownst to them, Ferdinand’s assassination during that visit had been arranged by the Black Hand, a Serbian revolutionary organization. The governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Austrian territory, General Oskar Potiorek, invited Ferdinand to Sarajevo in 1914 to examine the troops and on June 28, 1914, Ferdinand and his wife made the journey. The couple had four children, one of whom died due to a miscarriage. They wed on the condition that Sophie agreed that she and her children would not inherit any of her husband’s titles, privileges, or property. ![]() Countess Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Chotek von Chotkova und Wognin was the first woman Ferdinand fell in love with and in 1899, after much discussion, they were wed. Despite this responsibility, he found time for travel and other interests, including his 1892 to 1893 circumnavigation of the globe. As a result, Karl Ludwig, his father, who died from typhoid fever in 1896, became the first in line for the crown after which Ferdinand prepared to take the crown. ![]() He also opposed overtly nationalist movements that would represent a challenge to the empire.Ĭrown Prince Rudolf, Ferdinand’s cousin, killed himself in his hunting cabin in Mayerling in 1889. There were many different ethnic groups in the empire, and Ferdinand favored giving Serbia more autonomy because he was concerned that the suffering of the Slavs would trigger violence in the area. He led the Austro-Hungarian Empire and worked to keep the Habsburg dynasty in power. Until he was appointed a major general in 1896, he had five promotions. He was enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army and advanced quickly. Ferdinand had private tutoring throughout his early education. He was the oldest child of Archduke Carl Ludwig and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Ludwig’s second wife. Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph was born on December 18, 1863, in Graz, Austria. ![]()
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