why did serbians murder franz ferdinand and his wife?

Answer 1

Briefly, it was because the Serbs felt that Franz Ferdinand was a threat to Serbian independence so they assassinated him.

But here's the long story:
In 1913 Franz Ferdinand was appointed Inspector General of the Austro-Hungarian Army. A promoter of naval expansion and military modernization, Ferdinand was popular with the armed forces and in the summer of 1914 General Oskar Potiorek, Governor of the Austrian provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina, invited the Inspector of the Armed Forces, to watch his troops on maneuvers. When Potieoek made it clear that his wife, Dutchess Sophie would also be made welcome, Franz Ferdinand agreed to make the visit.

Franz Ferdinand knew that the journey would be dangerous. A large number of people living in Bosnia-Herzegovina were unhappy with Austro-Hungarian rule and favoured union with Serbia. In 1910 a Serb, Bogdan Zerajic, had attempted to assassinate General Varesanin, the Austrian governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina, when he was opening parliament in Sarajevo.

Zerajic was a member of the Black Hand (Unity or Death) who wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina to leave the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The leader of the group was Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the chief of the Intelligence Department of the Serbian General Staff. Dimitrijevic considered Franz Ferdinand a serious threat to a union between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He was worried that Ferdinand's plans to grant concessions to the South Slavs would make an independent Serbian state more difficult to achieve.

When it was announced that Franz Ferdinand was going to visit Bosnia in June 1914, Dimitrijevic began to make plans to assassinate the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne. Dimitrijevic sent three members of the Black Hand group based in Belgrade, Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez, to Sarajevo to carry out the deed.

Answer 2

Ferdinand was considering the idea of a federalism made up of 16 states; the aim being to avoid the disintegration of the fading Austro-Hungarian empire. However these ideas were not popular among the ruling elite.

As Inspector General of the army Franz Ferdinand accepted an invitation from General Oskar Potiorek to visit the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo, to inspect army manoeuvres. Bosnia - and Herzegovina - were provinces that had been under Austro-Hungarian administration since 1878, by international agreement. Austria annexed the provinces outright in 1908, a controversial move which upset governments in the west; however, Greater-Serbia proponents were outraged. They wanted the provinces to be part of a Serbian led pan-Slav state, rather than part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

A Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand, resolved to assassinate Franz Ferdinand during his visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 and thereby stall his proposed reforms.

Answer 3

Franz Ferdinand, aged 51, was heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was married to Sophie Chotek von Chotvoka and had three children. Franz Ferdinand was, however, very unpopular because he had made it clear that once he became Emperor he would make changes.

Answer 4

Be careful here kipper. An extremist terrorist group which includes Serbs does not mean that all Serbians were in on the murder or wanted it to occur. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, but that does not mean all of the Saudis wanted to murder over 2000 Americans.
Over-generalization is a common error we tend to make.

Answer 5

Sarajevo in Bosnia attempting to barter to discover a truce so there woul be not extra insurrectional emotions , he and spouse Sophie have been murdered of their motor vehicle via a bomb planted via Gavrillo Princip

Answer 6

Look the Serbian people, not all of them, are criminals. I am from Slovenia one of country witch was in war with Serbs. Lucky for us we are to far away so they quickly stoped and attacked Croatia.

As for Franz F.
That is long story. But I'll shorten it for you. Serb never had real king. Sore you have Nemanjići, Obrenovići and Karađođevići dynasty. They were biggest pig farmers in Serbia.
Slovenia had dynasty called Counts of Celje.BTW I'm from Celje. And they were so big that Austrian dynasty called Habsburg felt threatened.They made pact with Serbians to kill last Count of Celje. Counts of Celje and Habsburg dynasty had special agreement, who ever survive last gets it all. All of countries of Habsburg and all Celje countries.
That is how Austrio - Hungary was born. After assassination Serbs get new cannons for attacking Oman solders and pashas witch ruled the Serbian pasha-luck.
"Great" Serbian solders didn't fight, they sold cannons to Oman solders, and blamed Austria for not supporting there fight against Muslims.
When F.Ferdinand, I hate Austrians ans well as Serbians, came to Bosnia they killed him. Gavrilo Princip was in grup called Mlada Bosna or Young Bosnia. Young Bosnia was under gruop called Crna Ruka or Black Hand. Black hand was gruop of Serbian solders under general called Dimitrijević. They were fighting for pan-slavic idea. All Slaven countries should be under one king. Serbian of course.
When WWI started no Serbian solder when to the front. I know I had gran-grand dad who told me. He was fighting on the German side in WWI.

I could go on and on.

Answer 7

They were looking for a fight. They still are. I was in England in the 90s with my mother when the massacre in Sarajevo came on the news. All she said was, 'OH, God, not Sarajevo again!'