Gavrilo Princip
A FREEDOM FIGHTER
OR A TERRORIST?
BY: AMBER MCKENZIE
GAVRILO PRINCIP --- ARCHDUKE FRANZ
FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA
WHO WAS GAVRILO
PRINCIP?
Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb
who assassinated Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria and his wife,
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in
Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Princip
and his accomplices were arrested and
implicated a number of members of
the Serbian military, leading AustriaHungary to issue a démarche to
Serbia known as the July Ultimatum.
This set off a chain of events that led
to World War I.
During his trial he stated "I am
a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming
for the unification of all
Yugoslavs, and I do not care
what form of state, but it must
be free from Austria."
Born: 25 July 1894
Obljaj, Bosnia-Herzegovina
condominium, Austria-Hungary
Died: 28 April 1918 (aged 23)
Terezín, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Nationality: Austro-Hungarian (legal)
Yugoslav (self-declared)
Timeline of WW1
1914 Timeline of WW1
July WW1 starts July 28, 1914
but was triggered on 28 June
1914 by the assassination of the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria (heir to the throne of
Austria and Hungary) and his
pregnant wife Sophie.
28 June 1914 - The assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria took place in in Sarajevo,
the capital of the AustroHungarian province of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
The assassination was
perpetrated by a Serbian
terrorist group, called The
Black Hand and the man who
shot Franz Ferdinand and his
wife was a Bosnian
revolutionary called Gavrilo
Princip.
July 28,1914: Austria-Hungary
declared war on Serbia and
WW1 begins.
July 31,1914: Russia
announced mobilization of
their army and called upon the
French to mobilize.
Principe FAMILY HISTORY
The Serbian surname of
PRINCIPE was a nickname 'one
with the appearance of a prince one who played the part in a
pageant or play'. The name was
originally in the Latin form of
PRIMUS, meaning 'first',
presumably denoting someone
who behaved in a regal manner or
had won the title in some contest
of skill. During the Middle Ages,
when people were unable to read
or write, signs were needed for all
visual identification. For several
centuries city streets were filled
with signs of all kinds, public
houses, tradesmen and even
private householders found them
necessary.
Coats of arms accompanied the
development of surnames, becoming
hereditary in the same way. The name is
also spelt PRINCIP, PRINS, LE
PRINCE, PRINZ, DEL PRINCIPE,
PRINCIPE and PRINCIPI. An
infamous member of the name was
Gavrilo PRINCIP (1895-1918) the
Serbian nationalist and revolutionary,
born in Bosnia. He was a member of a
secret Serbian terrorist organization
known as the 'Black Hand' dedicated to
the achievement of independence for
the South Slav peoples from the AustroHungarian Empire.
On June 28th, 1914, he and a group of
young zealots assassinated the archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his
wife Sophie on a visit to Sarajevo. The
murder precipitated World War I. after
Austria declared war on Serbia on 28th
July. Princip died in an Austrian prison.
PRINCIP
FAMILY
PRINCIP FAMILY CREST
1894 :
TIMELINE OF PRINCIP
FAMILY
Birth= Born on July 25, 1894.
1911 :
16 Years Old
The Archduke knew that the visit would be dangerous, knowing his uncle, Emperor
Franz Josef, had been the subject of an assassination attempt by the Black Hand in
1911.
Just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, the royal couple arrived in Sarajevo by train. In the
front car was Fehim Čurčić, the Mayor of Sarajevo and Dr. Gerde, the city's
Commissioner of Police. Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were in the second car with
Oskar Potiorek and Lieutenant Colonel Count Franz von Harrach. The car's top was
rolled back in order to allow the crowds a good view of its occupants.
CONTINUATION OF
TIMELINE
1912
1917
17 Years Old
22 Years Old
In February 1912, Princip took part in protest
demonstrations against the Sarajevo authorities,
for which he was expelled from school. Following
his expulsion, he moved to Belgrade
Princip was standing near Moritz
Schiller's cafe having apparently
given up, when he spotted Franz
Ferdinand's car as it drove past,
having taken the wrong turn. After
realizing the mistake, the driver put
his foot on the brake, and began to
back up. In doing so the engine of
the car stalled and the gears locked,
giving Princip his opportunity.
Princip stepped forward, drew his
FN Model 1910 pistol,, and at a
distance of about 1.5 m (five feet),
fired twice into the car. Franz
Ferdinand was hit in the neck and
Sophie (who instinctively covered
Franz's body with her own after the
first shot) in the abdomen, and
they both died before 11 a.m.
1914
19 Years Old
On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip participated in
the assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian
Archduke. General Oskar Potiorek, Governor of
the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and
Herzegovina had invited Franz Ferdinand and
Countess Sophie to the opening of a hospital.
1918=
CONTINUATION OF
TIMELINE
24 Years Old
He died on 28 April 1918 at Terezín 3 years and 10 months after he
assassinated the Archduke and Duchess.
At the time of his death, Princip weighed around, weakened by malnutrition,
blood loss from his amputated arm, and disease.
Fearing his bones might become relics for Slav nationalists, Princip’s jailers
took the body in secret to an unmarked grave, but a Czech soldier assigned
to the burial remembered the location, and in 1920 Princip and the other
“Heroes of Vidovdan” were disinterred and brought to Sarajevo, where they
were buried together beneath a chapel “built to commemorate for eternity
our Serb Heroes” at St. Mark’s Cemetery.
GAVRILO
PRINCIP
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
of Austria FAMILY
HISTORY:
BY: AMBER MCKENZIE
FERDINAND
FERDINAND FAMILY CREST
Franz
Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was an
Archduke of Austria-Este,
Austro-Hungarian and
Royal Prince of Hungary
and of Bohemia, and from
1889 until his death, heir
presumptive to the AustroHungarian throne.
FRANZ FERDINAND
Born: December 18, 1863,
Graz
Assassinated: June 28, 1914,
Sarajevo
Spouse: Sophie, Duchess of
Hohenberg (m. 1900–1914)
Children: Princess Sophie von
Hohenberg, Maximilian,
Duke of Hohenberg, Prince
Ernst von Hohenberg
Franz Ferdinand was an
Archduke of Austria-Este,
Austro-Hungarian and
Royal Prince of Hungary
and of Bohemia, and from
1889 until his death, heir
presumptive to the AustroHungarian throne. His
assassination in Sarajevo
precipitated AustriaHungary's declaration of
war against Serbia.
TIMELINE FOR FRANZ
FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA:
1863
Birth= Born on December 18, 1863.
1889
25 Years Old
In 1889, Franz Ferdinand's life changed dramatically. His cousin
Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide at his hunting lodge in
Mayerling, leaving Franz Ferdinand's father, Archduke Karl Ludwig, as
first in line to the throne. However, his father died of typhoid fever
after the Crown Prince's death. Henceforth, Franz Ferdinand was
groomed to succeed.
CONTINUATION OF
TIMELINE
1893:
29 Years Old
Despite this burden, he did manage to find time for travel and personal
pursuits, such as the time he spent hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia
in 1893, and the return trip to Austria sailing across the Pacific on the RMS
Empress of China from Yokohama to Vancouver.
1894:
30 Years Old
In 1894 Franz Ferdinand met Countess Sophie Chotek at a ball in Prague.
To be an eligible marriage partner for a member of the Imperial House of
Habsburg, one had to be a member of one of the reigning or formerly
reigning dynasties of Europe.
1899:
CONTINUATION OF
TIMELINE
35 Years Old
Finally, in 1899, Emperor Franz Joseph agreed to permit Franz Ferdinand to marry Sophie, on
condition that the marriage would be morganatic and that their descendants would not have
succession rights to the throne.
1900:
36 Years Old
The wedding took place on 1 July 1900, at Reichstadt (now Zákupy) in Bohemia; Franz Joseph
did not attend the affair, nor did any archduke including Franz Ferdinand's brothers.
1914
50 Years Old
After his assassination in 1914, the Navy honoured Franz Ferdinand and his wife with a lying
in state aboard the SMS Viribus Unitis.
MY OPIINION
WHAT I THINK???
I think gavrilo princip was a terrorist not a freedom fighter because:
Gavrilo Princip assassinated The arch duke Franz Ferdinand here is
the story of what happened: After lunch at the City Hall, Franz
Ferdinand insisted on visiting the injured attendants in hospital.
However, on the way to the hospital the driver took a wrong turn.
Realizing his mistake he stopped the car and began to reverse. Another
terrorist, named Gavrilo Princip, stepped forward and fired two shots.
The first hit the pregnant Sophia in the stomach, she died almost
instantly. The second shot hit the Archduke in the neck. He died a
short while later.
By reading this I came to a realization that Gavrilo Princip Is a
murder/terrorist for being part in such a horrible event.
LINK TO TIME LINE
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