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Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Frättling und Püllütz (Hungarian: Gróf Berchtold Lipót, Czech: Leopold hrabě Berchtold z Uherčic) (18 April 1863 – 21 November 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian politician, diplomat and statesman who served as Imperial Foreign Minister at the ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Leopold, Graf von Berchtold was an Austro-Hungarian foreign minister whose ultimatum to Serbia (July 23, 1914) was followed (August 1) by the outbreak of World War I. A wealthy landowner in Hungary and Moravia, Berchtold, through marriage, became one of the richest men in Austria-Hungary.
Graf Leopold Berchtold, Habsburg foreign minister from 1912 to 1915, was confronted with military action during and after the Balkan Wars, yet kept peace. Then, the Sarajevo assassinations, blamed on Serbia, convinced him that only war with Serbia would protect the Habsburgs’ Balkan interests.
May 14, 2018 · 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 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 Imperial Foreign Minister at the outbreak of World War I.
Her secretive guest was the one person who could have prevented the outbreak of war.2 Had he counseled Emperor Franz Joseph to continue a policy of militant diplomacy instead of a policy of hostile, military confrontation, peace would have been preserved, regardless of German pressures.
On 8 July at 6 p. m. Berchtold met with Conrad, Forgách, Burián, Hoyos, and Karl von Macchio, first section chief of the Foreign Ministry, to discuss the terms of the ultimatum and its delivery in fourteen days after the harvest leaves and investigation were ended.
