Oskar Potiorek
Politician, Deceased Person
1853 – 1933
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Who was Oskar Potiorek?
Oskar Potiorek was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, who served as Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1911 to 1914. He was a co-passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Duchess Sophie of Hohenberg when they were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. In the following World War I, Potiorek commanded the Austro-Hungarian forces in the Serbian Campaign of 1914/15.
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- Born
- Nov 20, 1853
Bleiburg - Nationality
- Austria
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 17, 1933
Klagenfurt
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on July 23, 2013
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