hoetzendorf

Updated: May 9, 2025

Unfortunately he underestimated the tendencies of Berchtold, Conrad von Hoetzendorf, Forgasch, and others in Vienna, who, with no misgivings such as those of Tirpitz as to the outcome, had determined on "losgehen." The proximate cause of the war was Austrian policy. A secondary cause was the absence of any effective attempt at control from Berlin.

Viscount R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane) Haldane - Before the War