Ferdinand II was a devout Roman Catholic and much less tolerant than his predecessor , Rudolf II , who ruled Legal_rulings from the largely Protestant city of Prague .

Powers was convicted Rewards_and_punishments of espionage and sentenced Rewards_and_punishments to three years of imprisonment plus seven years of hard labor but was released Releasing two years later on 10 February 1962 during a prisoner exchange Exchange for Soviet officer Rudolf Abel .

Hitler was found Know guilty Committing_crime of treason Committing_crime and sentenced Legal_rulings to five years in Landsberg Prison , where he dictated `` Mein Kampf '' to his fellow prisoners Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess .

Soldiers from the army of the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ( `` later '' Yugoslavia ) , under the command Control of Slovene officer Rudolf Maister , killed Killing between 9 and 13 civilians of German ethnic origin , wounding Bodily_harm a further 60 , during a protest in a city centre square .

The Fourth Army commanded Control by Moritz von Auffenberg , victorious in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Komarow , was given Giving order Request to turn Motion south to aid Assistance the Third Army ( Rudolf Brudermann ) which had suffered heavy casualties Catastrophe .

Rudolf II , Holy Roman Emperor was an obstinate and stubborn monarch .

Forced to make Manufacturing concession to his Hungarian subjects in order to appease them for his indecisive war with the Ottoman Empire , Rudolf ceded Surrendering his Hungarian , Austrian and Moravian holdings to his brother , Matthias .

In 1609 , Rudolf granted Giving them concessions with the Letter of Majesty which included Cause_to_be_included religious tolerance and a church for the Bohemian Estate controlled Control by the Protestant nobility .

When the Protestant estates in Bohemia requested Request even more liberties , Rudolf sent Sending in an army to quiet them .

Rudolf II died Death a couple of months later in 1611 , at which point his brother Matthias acquired Getting the rest of his titles , including that of Holy Roman Emperor .

Ferdinand had not received Receiving his Bohemian throne in a weak position , as Mathias or Rudolf had .

Thirty-eight competitors Competition from thirteen nations competed Competition , with the event being won by Norway 's Alf Andersen ahead of countryman Sigmund Ruud and Czechoslovakia 's Rudolf Burkert .