Count leupold von berchtold biography of abrahams
Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal and Count Leopold Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, as well as his military ones, Carl von Bardolff, Arthur von.
Leopold, Graf von Berchtold was an Austro-Hungarian foreign minister whose ultimatum to Serbia (July 23, ) was followed (August 1) by the outbreak of..
Berchtold, Leopold Graf
By Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.
Graf Leopold Berchtold (1863-1942)
Graf Leopold Berchtold, Imperial Foreign Minister of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire from 1912-1915, was photographed by Madame d’Ora in uniform in 1916.
Madame d’Ora: Graf Leopold Berchtold in Uniform, black-and-white photograph, Vienna, 10 March 1916; source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Bildarchiv Austria, 203808-D, http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=307835.
Courtesy of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
Berchtold von und zu Ungarschitz, Leopold Graf
Austro-Hungarian diplomat and foreign minister
Born 18 April 1863 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died 21 November 1942 in Peresznye, Hungary
Summary
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