Franz Josef: The Last Great Emperor

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@Biographics 4 жыл бұрын

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@dancertm 4 жыл бұрын

My grandmother, who was born in Austria-Hungary, to her dying day said of the Emperor, "He vas a goot kingk!"

@yodathe900yearolddyslectic8 4 жыл бұрын

Frans Josef: who would start a war between german states at 3 am?

@vt1527 Жыл бұрын

My great grandmother was born in 1902 and died in 1996. She vividly remembered seeing the Kaiser in his carriage as a child/young teenager. It´s fascinating to think that she was born and lived in the huge Austro-Hungarian empire and died in what we know nowadays as Austria - so much had changed!

@Odin029 4 жыл бұрын

"at the advice of the hawks in his court" Oh Conrad von Hotzendorf we meet again

@WesStacey 4 жыл бұрын

I liked that you mentioned the that had Fanz Ferdinand been made emperor there might still be a Austro-Hungarian empire. I've heard it before that Ferdinand was a moderate and kept many of the warhawks in court at bay. After his assassination the war hawks took over, the best quote I've heard is that one person in the empire who could have prevented war after the assassination would have been Frans Ferdinand himself.

@PMMagro 4 жыл бұрын

The man, the myth, the mustache.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын

1:30

@ethanramos4441 4 жыл бұрын

“Nothing has been spared in this world” Franz Josef

@squamish4244 3 жыл бұрын

Polish-born Yisrael Kristal, who died in 2016 aged 113, remembered as a child throwing candies at the car carrying Franz Josef as he was driven through town in 1914.

@christophermerlot3366 4 жыл бұрын

His last words (as he was in bed poring over documents) to his personal secretary were "Why must be now?" I find something very sad about that.

@lisakaz35 4 жыл бұрын

"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!" WooHoo! Hope most ppl recognized that.

@MonteCristoAUS 4 жыл бұрын

If you're interested in doing another episode on a 19th Century Hapsburg, might I suggest Franz-Joseph's younger brother Maximilian, who Napoleon III and Franz-Joseph made Emperor of Mexico in the 1860s. As you can imagine, it all went badly for him and his wife

@mikeor- 2 жыл бұрын

Longest-reigning monarchs:

@ProrogonLordoftheJags 4 жыл бұрын

Please do one on Albert Göring, the younger brother of Hermann Göring who defied Nazism. He deserves to be remembered by more people.

@nekoking8330 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, but you left out two interesting moments in Franz Joesf's life:

@theKeshaWarrior 4 жыл бұрын

This mixed with the information from The Great War channel here on KZfaq really sheds a light on this topic when so many people would blame Austria and Germany without a second thought.

@rhodiamann9057 Жыл бұрын

And MY grandmother, born in Vienna, revered and adored him. He must have done something very right!!

@zsoltsandor3814 3 жыл бұрын

In hindsight, largely separated in time, here's this Hungarian - me -, along with other Hungarians, but also Czechs, Austrians, and even people of Rijeka/Fiume who revere Franz Josef. We also acknowledge that the United States of Greater Austria, the idea that Franz Ferdinand had in mind, could have been a game changer in the history of Europe.