![]() ![]() 83) In June 1915, Wilhelm received command of a platoon in a mostly Ukrainian regiment. ![]() “Service during wartime was the destiny of Habsburg archdukes.” (p. In 1914, Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand, the Hapsburg heir, was assassinated in Sarajevo. ![]() Perhaps he could eventually rule Ukraine for the Hapsburg monarchy. ![]() He hoped to be that king! During hi s time at military school in Moravia, Wilhelm became interested in the idea of a Ukrainian state. His father believed that Poland would eventually become a separate entity and would need a Habsburg king. 2) Wilhelm’s parents had castles on a peninsula called Istria on the Adriatic Sea and in Poland. Stretching from the mountains of Ukraine in the north to the warm water of the Adriatic Sea in the south…” (p. “At the time, their family still ruled the Habsburg monarchy, Europe’s proudest and oldest realm. Although he died in obscurity in a Russian prison in 1948, Wilhelm made the creation of a Ukrainian nation the cause of his life.Īs the son of Archduke Stefan and Archduchess Maria Theresia, Wilhelm led a very privileged life along with his five brothers and sisters. Who can resist a romantic Hapsburg hero who openly embraces the cause of Ukrainian nationalism in the early 20th century? Wilhelm von Habsburg was such a man. In this edition of Knyzka Corner, we will be discussing Timothy Snyder’s, The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. ![]()
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