Charles I/Karl I (1887 – 1922) was emperor (Kaiser) of Austria and, as Charles IV, king of Hungary, King of Croatia, also King of Bohemia, the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (21 November 1916 – 11 November 1918).
World War I accelerated the centrifugal forces of nationalism in Charles’s multinational empire. His solution, transformation of the western part of his empire into a federated state, announced in October 1918, proved insufficient and too late.
On 11 November 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian armies on the Italian front, Charles renounced all participation in affairs of state but did not abdicate. Exiled to Switzerland in March 1919, he was deposed by the Austrian parliament that April.
In 1921 he twice tried to regain his Hungarian throne but failed and was sent to exile in Madeira, living there in very poor conditions and dying of pneumonia. He was only 34.
Upon Charles’s death in 1922, his widow, Zita von Bourbon-Parma (1892–1989), went into mourning and wore black for the rest of her life, dying at age 96 in Switzerland.
If he turned the crown upside down it would make a great bowl to eat cornflakes from.
Go inside it’s cold 🙁
God damn LARPers
Universally known as “Giftgas-Karl” (Poison gas Charles) as he ordered the use of chemical warfare for the 12th battle of Isonzo in 1917
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Charles I/Karl I (1887 – 1922) was emperor (Kaiser) of Austria and, as Charles IV, king of Hungary, King of Croatia, also King of Bohemia, the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (21 November 1916 – 11 November 1918).
World War I accelerated the centrifugal forces of nationalism in Charles’s multinational empire. His solution, transformation of the western part of his empire into a federated state, announced in October 1918, proved insufficient and too late.
On 11 November 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian armies on the Italian front, Charles renounced all participation in affairs of state but did not abdicate. Exiled to Switzerland in March 1919, he was deposed by the Austrian parliament that April.
In 1921 he twice tried to regain his Hungarian throne but failed and was sent to exile in Madeira, living there in very poor conditions and dying of pneumonia. He was only 34.
Upon Charles’s death in 1922, his widow, Zita von Bourbon-Parma (1892–1989), went into mourning and wore black for the rest of her life, dying at age 96 in Switzerland.
If he turned the crown upside down it would make a great bowl to eat cornflakes from.
Go inside it’s cold 🙁
God damn LARPers
Universally known as “Giftgas-Karl” (Poison gas Charles) as he ordered the use of chemical warfare for the 12th battle of Isonzo in 1917
Imagine going to war and dying for these goofs.
Which one is Zita?