Adolph Schwarzenberg

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Adolph (Prince zu) Schwarzenberg (born August 18, 1890 in Frauenberg , Bohemia , † February 27, 1950 in Bordighera , Italy ) was a Bohemian nobleman.

Life

Adolph Schwarzenberg came from the Schwarzenberg family and was the 10th Prince of Schwarzenberg. He married Princess Hilda of Luxembourg and Nassau (* February 15, 1897 , † September 8, 1979 ), daughter of Grand Duke Wilhelm of Luxembourg . Since the marriage remained childless, in 1940 he adopted the younger brother of his cousin and 11th Prince of Schwarzenberg, Joseph III. , Heinrich Duke of Krumau .

Adolph Schwarzenberg attended high school in Feldkirch . He studied world trade and law at the University of Prague , where he received Dr. iur. has been. During the First World War he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, where he fought in Italy and the Middle East in particular .

From 1921 he worked in the management of the family property. 1923 appointed him his father John II. To the Plenipotentiary for the Czech goods. After the death of his father on October 1, 1938 , Adolph Schwarzenberg inherited the family property.

Later he was a reserve officer in the Czechoslovak Army .

As an opponent of the Nazi regime , Adolph Schwarzenberg was ultimately forced to emigrate to Italy in 1939 and to the USA in 1941 . In 1938, after Austria was annexed to the German Reich, he had a plaque affixed to the park of his Viennese palace with the inscription “Jews are welcome here”. His adopted son Henry was on the orders of Himmler in the Buchenwald concentration camp abducted.

After the Second World War , Adolph Schwarzenberg tried unsuccessfully - against the resistance of the communists - to get the Bohemian possessions back. In 1947 all goods located in Czechoslovakia were expropriated ( Lex Schwarzenberg ).

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SURNAME Schwarzenberg, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarzenberg, Adolph Fürst zu; Schwarzenberg, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenberg, Bohemia (Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic)
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1950
Place of death Bordighera , Italy