Was he the hero A-H needed?
>>2998462
He was. He was actually sympathetic to the radical cause that ended his life. Ironic. Violence begets violence.
>>2999065
Wasn't it the case that he actually hated Serbs but was sympathetic to giving them and various other ethnic groups more autonomy to "fix" A-H?
http://ww1.habsburger.net/en/chapters/franz-ferdinand-and-his-political-programme
He wanted to get rid of dualism, thus turning AH into Austria again.