Alfred von und zu Liechtenstein

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Prince Alfred von und zu Liechtenstein (1842–1907)

Alfred Aloys Eduard Prince von und zu Liechtenstein (born July 11, 1842 in Prague , †  October 8, 1907 at Hollenegg Castle ) was an Austrian politician.

origin

Prince Alfred was a son of the Austrian General Franz von und zu Liechtenstein and Countess Julie Eudoxia von Potocka-Piława. Alfred came from a branch of the Princely House , which came to government in Liechtenstein with his grandson Franz Josef II in 1938 .

biography

After completing his law studies from 1864 to 1866, Prince Alfred joined the Austrian army, in which he rose to the rank of major . As a politician, he emerged in Graz from 1873 as the leader of a conservative and anti-liberal committee. He succeeded in entering the state parliament of the Duchy of Styria , to which he belonged until 1899. With a mandate from the Radkersburg - Feldbach constituency , he moved into the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat in 1879 , to which he belonged until 1878. In the Hohenwart Right Party he campaigned for the introduction of a denominational school. In 1881 he founded the Christian-oriented Liechtenstein Club with his brother Aloys von und zu Liechtenstein. When his father died in 1887, Alfred became head of his Liechtenstein sideline and took over the hereditary mandate that went with it in the manor house . There he took over the leadership of the clerical wing of the Conservatives. Towards the end of his life, Alfred von Liechtenstein stayed in seclusion on his estates in Styria.

Honors

Memorial plaque in the Deutschlandsberger Klause

Prince Alfred was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1903 as the 1143rd Knight .

progeny

On April 26, 1865, Prince Alfred married his cousin Henriette in Vienna . The couple had ten children together:

  • Franziska (1866–1939) remained unmarried
  • Franz (1868–1929) remained unmarried
  • Julia (1868) died shortly after giving birth
  • Alois (1869–1955), married Elisabeth Amalie of Austria in 1903 . The marriage had eight children, including Prince Franz Josef II.
  • Maria Theresa (1871–1964) remained unmarried
  • Johannes (1873–1959), married to Countess Marie Andrássy von Czik-Szent-Király and Krasna-Horka (1886–1961) since 1906. The marriage resulted in five children, including Hans von Liechtenstein , and numerous offspring.
  • Alfred Roman (1875–1930), provisional head of government of Liechtenstein in 1928, married to Theresia Maria Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Wallerstein (1887–1971) since 1912. The marriage resulted in four children and numerous offspring.
  • Heinrich Alois (1877–1915), remained unmarried, died in the First World War
  • Karl Aloys (1878–1955), 1918–1920 provisional administrator of Liechtenstein, married to Elisabeth von Urach since 1921 . The marriage resulted in four children and numerous offspring.
  • Georg (1880–1931), Benedictine monk in Prague

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ † Prince Alfred Liechtenstein. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 15493/1907, October 9, 1907, p. 5, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp;
    Prince Alfred Liechtenstein †. (With portrait). In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 42/1907 (XII. Year), October 16, 1907, p. 8, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  2. ↑ Master list of the House of Liechtenstein in Paul Theroff's online Gotha
personal data
SURNAME Liechtenstein, Alfred von und zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liechtenstein, Alfred Aloys Eduard Prinz von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince von und zu Liechtenstein, Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1907
Place of death Hollenegg Castle