I am studying fora Novel I am writing and not done this before. My family were extracated from Hungary in 1956 and my grandfather was involeved with the uprising. I have been inspired to write this book in his honour but i would likw to know more about Austro-Hungary in 1914 when he was born and grew up what his surroundings would have been like.
2007-09-17 21:32:59 · 8 answers · asked by K O 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If he was born in 1914 then in his teenage years he would have seen the hyper-inflation and economic collapse that led to the rise of Hitler (who was born in Austria-Hungary).
He was born at the start of WW1, maybe his father was called up to fight Rusia or Serbia?
2007-09-17 21:47:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1914 Austro-Hungary was a great Empire and an important player on the European stage. It was ruled by the aging emperor Franz-Joseph. Do not forget that it was the assassination of the Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand which led, ultimately, to the outbreak of WWI. Vienna, the capital city was still the glittering centre of the empire. It was a centre of the arts, especially music (as it had been for over 100 years) and full of beautiful buildings. The empire would have been rigidly hierarchical however. The subject nations - the Balkan states etc., wanted their independence - hence the assassination refrred to above. For an excellent fictional account of what life was like at the outbreak of WWI in the area try and get hold of a copy of the book 'The Good Soldier Schweik' by Jaroslav Hasel
2007-09-17 22:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great unrest among a diverse group of ethnicities meant the country was fairly divided. The dual monarchy was an incompetent system that could not keep every nationality within the empire happy. Although a lot of people were technically in poverty, most worked as the Empire tried to mirror the industrialisation of Germany and other European powers. The country was still at an early stage of urbanisation, where all the best jobs were in the city and people rarely migrated out of them. Terrorist and dictorially opposed groups were becoming organised and made aware of to the point of counter groups being set up.
2007-09-18 04:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by second only to trollalalala 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Poor were very poor and the Rich were extravagantly so.Arch -Duke Ferdinand was Assassinated by Boy-Fanatical Criminal Nationalists,probably Serbs.There were Trams and it was a rigidly ordered social hierarchy,I don't know how many roads had tarmac.If the Arch-Duke had a Car it was a rarity and horses were common.
2007-09-18 00:15:17 · answer #4 · answered by godbar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1914 was not a good time to be Austrian. Massive poverty, ethnic terrorism on a national scale, the diametrically opposed philosophies of the time fighting it out on the streets, an ignorant and out-of-touch double-monarchy, and the eve of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen.
2007-09-17 22:42:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get an old Baedeker. It's a fascinating read and presents a picture of a prosperous and developing, though ethnically divided state. Thsoe people didn't know when they were well off.
2007-09-18 07:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Count Christian Graf von Holstein-Pinneberg. You will find him in The Man in the Moon, Chelsea, most lunchtimes.
2007-09-17 22:48:45 · answer #7 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to make hungary a element of the communist social gathering. austria replaced right into a element of the nazi and communist hated them. yet now i looks like hungary is going to be a element of the ecu from next year.
2016-10-09 09:39:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋