Who started WW One?

The People

Austria-Hungary
Franz Joseph – Austrian Emperor and Hungarian King	Count Leopold Berchtold – Imperial Foreign Minister	Count Alexander Hoyos – Berchtold’s chef de cabinet	Count István Tisza – Hungarian Prime Minister
General Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf – Chief of the General Staff	General Alexander von Krobatin – Minister of War	Graf Friedrich Szápáry – ambassador in St Petersburg	Count Laszlo Szögyény – minister in Berlin
Count Janos Forgách – Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry Chief of Section	Karl Freiherr von Macchio – Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry Senior Official	Baron Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen – Austro-Hungarian minister in Belgrade	Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian ambassador in London
Count Miklos Szécsen – Austro-Hungarian ambassador in Paris	Baron István von Burián – Hungarian representative in Vienna	Count Karl Stürgkh – Austrian Prime Minister	Leon Bilinski – Austro-Hungarian Common Finance Minister
General Oskar von Potiorek – Austro-Hungarian Governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Germany
Wilhelm II – Kaiser	Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg – Chancellor	Gottlieb von Jagow – Foreign Minister	General Erich von Falkenhayn – Minister of War
General Helmuth von Moltke – Chief of the General Staff	Henry Prince of Prussia – The Kaiser’s brother	Prince Karl Lichnowsky – ambassador in London	Wilhelm von Schoen – ambassador in Paris
Heinrich von Tschirschky – ambassador in Vienna	Count Friedrich Pourtalès – ambassador in St Petersburg	General Alfred von Waldersee – Deputy Chief of the General Staff	Grossadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz – German Navy Minister
Alfred Zimmermann – Under Secretary of State Foreign Ministry	Wilhelm von Stumm – Foreign Ministry Political Director	Klaus von Below-Saleske – minister in Brussels

Serbia
Crown Prince Alexander – Regent	Nicholas Pašic – Prime Minister	Lazar Pacu – Finance Minister	Miroslav Spalajkovic – minister in St Petersburg
Ljuba Jovanovic – Minister of Education	Milenco Vesnic – minister in Paris	Slavko Gruic – Secretary-General Foreign Ministry

Russia
Nicholas II – Tsar	Serge Sazonov – Foreign Minister	Alexander Krivoshein – Minister of Agriculture	General Vladimir Sukhomlinov – Minister of War
General Nikolai Yanushkevich – Chief of the General Staff	General Yuri Danilov – Quarter-Master General	Count Alexander Benckendorff – ambassador in London	Alexander Izvolsky – ambassador in Paris
General Sergei Dobrorolski – Chief of Russian Mobilisation Section	Baron von Schilling – Foriegn Ministry Head of Chancery	Nicolai Shebeko – ambassador in Vienna	Serge Sverbeev – ambassador in Berlin
N Kudashev – embassy counsellor in Vienna	A Bronevski – charge in Berlin	Basil Strandtmann – counsellor in Belgrade	Sevastopula – counsellor in Paris

Britain
George V – King of Gt Britain & Ireland	Sir Edward Grey – Foreign Secretary	Sir Arthur Nicolson – Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs	Sir Eyre Crowe – Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Sir William Tyrrell – Grey’s private secretary	Sir George Buchanan – ambassador in St Petersburg	Sir Francis Bertie – ambassador in Paris	Sir William Goschen – ambassador in Berlin
Henry Asquith – Prime Minister	Viscount Richard Haldane – Lord Chancellor	David Lloyd George – Chancellor of the Exchequer	Winston Churchill – First Lord of the Admiralty
Viscount John Morley – Lord Privy Seal	Andrew Bonar Law – Conservative Party leader	Sir Maurice de Bunsen – ambassador in Vienna	Dayrell Crackanthorpe – chargé in Belgrade
Sir Horace Rumbold – chargé in Berlin

France
Raymond Poincaré – President of France	René Viviani – Prime Minister & Foreign Minister	Adolphe Messimy – Minister of War	General Joseph Joffre – Chief of the General Staff
Philippe Berthelot – Foreign Ministry Director	Jules Cambon – ambassador in Berlin	Paul Cambon – ambassador in London	Maurice Paléologue – ambassador in St Petersburg
Abel Ferry – Under Secretary Foreign Ministry	Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin – Minister of Justice and Acting Foreign Minister	Bruno Margerie – Foreign Ministry Political Director