Leopold Berchtold
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Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Frättling und Püllütz was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman who served as his nation
Count von Berchtold c. 1922
Portrait by Philip de László, 1906
Berchtold with his family, 1904.
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
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Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hötzendorf, sometimes anglicised as Hoetzendorf, was an Austrian general who played a central role in World War I. He served as K.u.k. Feldmarschall and Chief of the Gener
Leopold Berchtold
…which resulted in the famous "blank cheque", he became the leading spokesman, together with the Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff General Conrad von Hötzendorf, for war against Serbia during the meeting of the Imperial Crown Council on 7 July. Through the moderating influence of the Hungarian Minister-President…
1915 portrait, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Chief of Staff, 1906
Conrad late in life