!!!Wiesner, Friedrich b. Vienna, Oct. 27, 1871, d. Vienna, Nov. 5, 1951, diplomat. His report on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, the "W.-Report", served as a basis for the position taken up by the Vienna cabinet towards Serbia. Although W. excluded the possibility that the Serbian government was involved in planning and carrying out the assassination, Austria declared war on Serbia World War I. After 1918 W. was leader of a movement favouring the reinstatement of the monarchy; after 1936 he solicited many honorary citizenships for Otto Habsburg-Lothringen. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Wiesner,_Friedrich|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]