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Franz Karl left the military school as a first lieutenant. During the First World War, he served as a lieutenant from 1915 to 1918 in operations against Russia, Serbia and Romania. He lived to see the end of the war and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in November 1918, but he was already very ill.
Franz Karl: The Archduke in the background. The unprepossessing and mentally somewhat underendowed Archduke Franz Karl was always overshadowed by his wife Sophie. The only reason he has not disappeared entirely into the shadows of history is that he was the father of Emperor Franz Joseph.
Archduke Franz Karl was one of a considerable number of Habsburgs who did not have a talent for the dynasty’s claims to power or, more particularly, for the political and social activities necessary for pressing these claims successfully.
Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (21 August 1866 – 20 April 1939) was the son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1890, though, due to Marie Valerie's death in 1924, remarried in 1934 to Baroness Melanie von Riesenfels.
Early life and career. He was an Austrian Archduke, a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and second wife Marie Antoinette of Tuscany. He was a Feldmarschall-Leutnant of the Imperial ( k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army.
His heir Francis Ferdinand was assasinated. His Empire had alrady begun to crumble in World War I, even before his death. Francis Joseph's rule was both magnificent and at the same time pathetic. The Austrian monarchy was one of the most prestiogious in Europe. The Emperor himself was the most long-lived soverign.
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Archduke Franz Karl Salvator of Austria (German language: Erzherzog Franz Karl Salvator Marie Joseph Ignaz von Österreich-Toskana) (17 February 1893 in Schloss Lichtenegg, Wels, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary – 10 December 1918, Wallsee-Sindelburg, Lower Austria, Austria) was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and ...
