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Karl I#

b. Persenbeug (Lower Austria), Aug. 17, 1887, d. Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), April 1, 1922, 1916-1918 Emperor of Austria and King Karl IV of Hungary. married Zita von Bourbon-Parma in 1911. After the death of his uncle Franz Ferdinand in 1914 successor to the throne, and Emperor after the death of Emperor Franz Josef. In 1916/17 he attempted to take Austria-Hungary out of the war through a separate peace ( Sixtus Affair). On November 11, 1918 he renounced participation in all affairs of state in Austria and on November 13, 1918 also in Hungary; on March 23/24,1919 he emigrated together with his family to Switzerland; in 1921 he made two attempts to regain the Hungarian throne and was consequently interned by the Allies in Madeira, where he died after a few months.

Literature#

R. Lorenz, Ks. K. und der Untergang der Donaumonarchie, 1959; E. Feigl, Ks. K., 1984.

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