WHO'S WHO (WWI) (Part I)Versión en línea Who were the main military leaders, political leaders, monarchas and pacifists during the WWI? por Javier Ramón Núñez 1 Austrian archduke, the nephew of Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Josef Pistas 1 Became heir to the Austrian throne, following the suicide of Prince Rudolf (Franz Joseph’s only son) 2 He was an excellent candidate for a constitutional monarch: he was intelligent, realistic, well-travelled and much less conservative than his ageing uncle 3 He could also be stubborn, a quality made apparent by his determination to marry the commoner Sophie Chotek 4 As heir to the Austrian throne he took an active interest in both foreign affairs and military matters 5 He was on friendly terms with German ruler Wilhelm II, the two often meeting to discuss military and naval developments 6 The British press unfairly painted him as a dangerous radical or a puppet of the Kaiser 7 While on an official visit to the Bosnian capital Sarajevo in June 1914, he and his wife were gunned down in their car by a teenaged Serbian student
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