Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
Franz Ferdinand c. 1914
Franz Ferdinand posing in front of a killed elephant, 1893
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and their three children (from left), Prince Ernst von Hohenberg, Princess Sophie, and Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, in 1910
As described by contemporary Spanish magazine El Mundo Gráfico: "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."
Gavrilo Princip
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Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 Ju
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
…inspector general of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces. On 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by the 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia. Franz Ferdinand's assassination led to the July Crisis and precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia…
Princip in his prison cell on 4 July 1914
Princip family home in Obljaj
Gavrilo Princip's parents, Marija and Petar Princip c. 1927
(left to right) Trifko Grabež, Milan Ciganović, and Gavrilo Princip in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, c. May 1914.