Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933


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Coup d´Etat and Assassination


Karl Frhr. von Bardolff, Austria ->
I was chief of the Military Office of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and I was with him in Sarajevo at the time of his assassination.

Neagoe Flondor , Romania ->
was imprisoned for 68 days as member of political party "La Garde de Fer" (Iron Guard) after the assassination of Prime Minister Duca.

Kimon Gheorghieff, Bulgaria ->
led the military coup d'etat on May 34, took over premiership and Ministry of Justice and announced government by decree for period of a year. He resigned following a further coup d'etat led by royalist military group in January 1933.

Ahmed Mouhtar bey, Turkey ->
In 1912 the Government Unionist was overthrown and his party returned and took over authority with Kamil Pacha. His father was nominated for the second time Sheil-ul-Islam and he returned to Constantinople and Kamil Pasha in forming his Cabinet. Three months later he had to leave Constantinople on a foreign boat on account of the coup. d`état which had overthrown the liberal Cabinet and the assassination of the Nazim Pacha. The committee Union came to the Power again, has again condemned him to death and he had to stay in Europe for 7 years.

Ladislas Sikorski (de Kopaszyna), Poland and France ->
After the coup d'Etat in 1926, which he disapproved of, he remained at disposition for active public service.

Prince Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, ? ->
took part in the Kapp Putsch and in the German raid on Upper Silesia.