Franz Urban

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Franz Urban was the driver of the car used to transport Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia von Chôtek through the city of Sarajevo on the day of the assassination in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. According to some sources, the driver of the archducal car was named Leopold Loyka. Franz was not told about the change of route after the first failed assassination attempt, and turned onto Franz Joseph street, where the assassin Gavrilo Princip was standing.

The death date of Franz Urban is not common knowledge, although it is known that he survived World War I.