Franz Ferdinand

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, known as Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. 
==Biography==
Franz Ferdinand was born in Graz, Austria on December 18, 1863, and he became the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne in 1896. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were visiting Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia, which at the time had been annexed by Austria-Hungary. A Serbian nationalist group known as the Black Hand plotted to assassinate the Archduke whilst he was being driven through Sarajevo in a car with the top down. The first attempt of throwing a bomb at his car failed. Later, after coming out of hiding, Archduke Ferdinand insisted to be taken to the hospital to visit the wounded officers. The driver accidentally made a wrong turn, and ended up stalling the car in front of a café, where Serbian nationalist and assassin Gavrilo Princip happened to be standing. Princip shot both Archduke Ferdinand and Sophie at point-blank range, killing them both. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the most immediate cause of World War I.
==Appearances==
* WW1 (Part 1)
* The Russian Revolution (Part 2)
==Trivia==
* He is one of the few characters that does not have an OverSimplified model, and possibly the only character who isn't even given a stickfigure body.
* In his first appearance in WW1 (Part 1), both Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie appear only as a png of a real-life photograph of the couple; they are then inserted into a png image of the car that Ferdinand has been shot in.
* Much later, when Ferdinand appears again in The Russian Revolution (Part 2) once again for his assassination, he and Sophie are still only portrayed in the form of a still image. (most likely to pay homage to OverSimplified's first ever scene in his first ever video)
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