Alexander, Count of Hoyos
Ludwig Alexander Georg Graf von Hoyos, Freiherr zu Stichsenstein was an AustroHungarian diplomat who played a major role during the July Crisis while serving as chef de cabinet of the Foreign Minister at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. He was the grandson of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo.
Hoyos was born in Fiume onMay 1876 into the House of Hoyos, a noble family that hailed originally from Spain, but which had migrated to Austria around 1525. Over the centuries, the family had become part of the Hungarian nobility.
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