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  Leopold von Berchtold - TheBestLinks.com - April 18, Austria-Hungary, Balkan Wars, Hungary, ...
Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Joseph Korsinus Ferdinand, Count Von Berchtold (1863-1942), Austro-Hungarian foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War, was born April 18, 1863.
Berchtold joined the diplomatic corps in 1893, and although he was never credited with any great ability, he impressed others with his courtly manners and aristocratic background.
Berchtold persuaded the reluctant Emperor to issue an unacceptable ultimatum to Serbia (mainly by arguing that Russia would not come to Serbia's aid) on June 23, which was effectively the first step towards war.
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 Graf Leopold Berchtold von und zu Ungarschütz, Frättling, und Püllütz
Leopold Graf von Berchold zu Ungarschütz, Frättling, und Püllütz was born in Vienna on 18 April 1863.
Berchtold must have had a hand in its occurrence, because when he was summoned before Kaiser Franz Josef and asked why his flotilla had bombarded Belgrade, Berchtold flatly lied and said it was a response to a Serbian attack.
Berchtold considered his position to be the only one suitable to preserve the Empire, and he could not risk this position by trying to explain it to his Kaiser or to the Germans, both of whom were genuinely afraid of a World War.
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 Berchtold Leopold Graf von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von (1863-1942), Austrian statesman, born in Vienna.
The Austro-Hungarian foreign office under Foreign Minister Graf Leopold von Berchtold regarded the assassination as a golden opportunity to crush...
Beust, Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von (1809-86), German statesman, born in Dresden.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Count Leopold von Berchtold
Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Joseph Korsinus Ferdinand, Count Von Berchtold (1863-1942), Austro-Hungarian foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War, was born on 18 April 1863 in Vienna.
Berchtold was of wealthy means, owning tracts of land in Hungary and Moldavia; he was reputed to be one of Austria-Hungary's richest men.
After spells in London and Paris, Berchtold was appointed ambassador to Russia in 1907, serving at St. Petersburg until his return to Vienna in 1912 whereupon he took up his appointment as Emperor Franz-Josef's foreign minister.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Leopold,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von BERCHTOLD, LEOPOLD, GRAF VON [Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von], 1863-1942, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (1912-15).
The Ghost of Leopold II: The Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and its dusty colonialist exhibition.
The Loeb and Leopold Case: a neglected source for Richard Wright's native son.
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 Berchtold Leopold Graf von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Beust, Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von: Bismarck, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von
Bismarck, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von (1815-1898), Prusso-German statesman, who was the architect of German unification and the first chancellor...
Bismarck, Prince Otto Edward Leopold von: Caprivi, Georg Leo, Graf von
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 Leopold von Berchtold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After spending time in London and Paris, Berchtold was appointed ambassador to Russia in 1907, serving in St. Petersburg until he returned to Vienna in 1912, whereupon he was appointed Emperor Franz Josef's foreign minister.
Faced with Italian demands for control over certain southern Austrian territories, Berchtold recommended either a declaration of war with Italy (a course of action favoured by Army Chief of Staff Conrad von Hötzendorf and Prime Minister Tisza) or else agreement with the Italians' demands.
Forced to resign on January 13, 1915, Berchtold was replaced as foreign minister by the more pugnacious Baron Istvan Burian.
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 April 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Birth of Leopold Graf von Berchtold in Vienna, Austria.
Von Liebig studied with Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner at the universities of Bonn and Erlangen.
Von Liebig became a teacher at the University of Giessen, where he established the first laboratory to teach the methods of chemical research.
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 Leopold von Berchtold, Count Biography / Biography of Leopold von Berchtold, Count Biography
The Austro-Hungarian statesman Count Leopold von Berchtold (1863-1942) served as foreign minister of Austria-Hungary during the critical years 1912-1915.
His uncompromising ultimatum to Serbia contributed to the outbreak of World War I. Leopold von Berchtold, the son of a wealthy landowner in Moravia and Hungary, was born in Vienna on April 18, 1863.
Although Berchtold tried to maintain good relations with the Russian government while he was ambassador, the growing rivalry between the two powers over the Balkans undermined his efforts.
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 Trenches on the Web - Timeline: Jul-1914: The July Crisis
Count Leopold von Berchtold's initial stance is one of moderation; dismiss Belgrade's minister of police, jail all suspected terrorists, and dissolve extremist groups.
Berchtold recommends that Conrad and Minister of War, Baron Alexander von Krobatin, proceed with their vacation plans lest something be suspected.
Berchtold obtains this signature at 7:23 pm by telling the aged Emperor that the Serbs were already attacking.
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 Trenches on the Web - Bio: Count Leopold von Berchtold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His descriptions include snob, society blade, and ladies' man. Owner of a racing stable and lover of the good life, his contemporaries viewed him as less than intelligent and of shabby character.
His plotting with Field Marshal Conrad von Hotzendorff assured the invasion of Serbia by the forces of Austria-Hungary following the 28-Jun-1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
von Berchtold on the atmosphere at the first cabinet meeting after the Archduke's assassination.
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 Berchtold Leopold Graf Von: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In a bad humor, Hans von Bulow sprays poison over Vienna...see the distinguished Count Berchtold on a summers day in 1914...summer castle of Emperor Leopold I, Josef I and Charles VI...
This speech will...Crown Prince applauded Herr von Heydebrand, and that the Conservative...
BERCHTOLD, LEOPOLD, GRAF VON la opolt graf f n berkh tolt, 1863 1942, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister...Although Serbia made a conciliatory reply to his harsh ultimatum, Berchtold pressed for full acceptance; he probably even magnified a border...
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In fact General von Moltke himself stated in writing that he really was the one who initiated WWI In June 1915.
Yet on the day Wilhelm II gave the oke to General von Moltke to start the war did so under the condition no war with Belgium would be started and that instead all troops should be used to solely attack Russia because Russia was ready to attack Austria.
This is known ever since the publication of General von Moltke's own diary who added that after he returned from his visit with the Kaiser he in fact broke out in tears, suggesting von Moltke might have in fact suffered from clinical depression, already before the war.
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 World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The last instigator of the war to be discussed is the Austrian foreign minister during the war, Count Leopold von Berchtold.
Berchtold was The deep-dyed villain of the 1914 summer’s tragedy.
Berchtold forced Joseph to sign his name on the declaration by lying to Joseph and telling him that Serbia was already attacking Austria-Hungary.
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 Leopold von Berchtold
Leopold von Berchtold was born in Vienna in 1862.
Although Berchtold favoured an aggressive approach to Serbia, he disagreed with the chief of staff, Conrad von Hotzendorf, about an immediate invasion of the country after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
As Berchtold was a reluctant supporter of war, Conrad von Hotzendorf was able to label him as a defeatist and in January 1915 he was removed from office by Franz Josef.
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 List of Austrian politicians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Count Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of World War One
Leopold Gratz, former foreign minister and president of the Nationalrat (SPÖ)
Kurt von Schuschnigg, dictator from 1934 to 1938
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 Francis Ferdinand is Assassinated: 1914
Austrian foreign minister Count Leopold von Berchtold was determined to make use of the assassinations to crush once and for all the Serbian nationalist movement.
Berchtold sent an envoy to Berlin, who was assured by Emperor William II on July 5th that Germany would fully support any action which the Dual Monarchy might take against Serbia.
Minutes before the July 25th deadline, Serbia issued a conciliatory reply to Berchtold's demands, stating that Serbia wished the dispute to be submitted to the International Tribunal at the Hague.
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 List of Austrians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer, born in Vienna, 1871
Leopold V, Babenberg duke of Austria, (was on the Third Crusade)
Clemens von Pirquet, pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology
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 German Strategy and the Path to Verdun - Cambridge University Press
Moltke, Helmuth von (the Younger), 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 54, 59, 69, 72, 73, 77, 79, 80, 84, 85, 87, 88, 91, 93, 98, 111, 113, 117, 120, 123, 178
Moltke, Helmuth Graf von (the Elder), 4, 17, 18, 20, 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 38, 45, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61, 62, 63, 104, 106, 107, 109, 113, 125, 146, 206
Schlieffen, Alfred Graf von, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 37, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 73, 77, 79, 80, 84, 111, 113, 140, 261
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 Count Leopold von Berchtold
He soon fell under the influence of Franz, Count Conrad von Hötzendorf, chief of the general staff, but was restrained by the heir presumptive, Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
At the beginning of the First Balkan War (October-December 1912), Berchtold unrealistically attempted to maintain the territorial status quo, and after the war he prevented Serbia from gaining a corridor to the Adriatic Sea.
Encouraged by Conrad von Hötzendorf, who for years had urged a preventive war against Serbia, Berchtold, with the consent of the council of joint ministers, decided on an ultimatum, the onerous terms of which would assure its rejection by the Serbian government.
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 THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The assassination of the heir to the throne, as a result of a plot prepared in Belgrade, demanded severe retribution; otherwise Austria would be regarded as incapable of action, "wormeaten" as the Serbian Press expressed it, would sink in prestige, and hasten her own downfall.
Berchtold gambled on a "local" war with Serbia only, believing that he could rattle the German sword; but rather than abandon his war with Serbia, he was ready to drag the rest of Europe into war.
It is true that Berchtold would hardly have embarked on his gambler's policy unless he had been assured that Germany would fulfill the obligations of the alliance, and to this extent Germany must share the great responsibility of Austria.
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 Random House Trade | The Great War by Robert Cowley
I hold war to be inevitable, and the sooner the better." The frequently quoted words of General Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of the German General Staff, were part of a memorandum to the Reich chancellor written at the end of 1911.
A prolonged war of attrition, as Count Alfred von Schlieffen had pointed out in a famous article in 1909, could not be conducted when it required the expenditure of milliards to sustain armies numbered in millions.
No wonder Count Leopold von Berchtold and his colleagues took their time drafting their ultimatum: They must have found the process highly enjoyable.
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 Biography of Leopold von Berchtold, Count | Life of Leopold von Berchtold, Count
His uncompromising ultimatum to Serbia contributed to the outbreak of World War I.Leopold von Berchtold, the son of a wealthy landowner in Moravia and Hungary, was born in Vienna on April 18, 1863.
He held this post until March 1911, when he became foreign minister.Although Berchtold tried to maintain good relations with the Russian government while he was ambassador, the growing rivalry between the two powers over the Balkans undermined his efforts.
Further Reading There exists nothing substantial on Berchtold in either English or German; his rather superficial diaries and memoirs are unpublished.
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 5. The Intervention of Italy, 1915. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The necessity of making some concession to Italy in order to keep it neutral was fully recognized in Berlin, but the Austrian foreign minister (Baron Leopold von Berchtold) refused to entertain suggestions of territorial cessions.
Prince Bernhard von Bülow, former German chancellor, arrived in Rome on a special mission.
He admitted the Italian claim to the Trentino, and the German government made every effort to persuade the Austrians to give in (mission of Count Betho von Wedel to Vienna, Jan. 16, 1915).
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 AllRefer.com - Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von, Austria And Hungary, History, Biographies
Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von[lA´OpOlt grAf fun berkh´tOlt] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1942, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (1912–15).
During the Balkan Wars he successfully worked for the creation of an independent Albania to block Serbian access to the Adriatic Sea.
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 List of people associated with World War I
Count Leopold von Berchtold[?], (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
Ernst von Koerber[?] (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg[?] (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)
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