Alois von und zu Liechtenstein (Prince)

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Alois von und zu Liechtenstein with Mrs. Elisabeth Amalie
Aus Sport & Salon , Vienna, April 25, 1903

Alois Maria Adolf , also Aloys Gonzaga Maria Adolf , (born June 17, 1869 at Hollenegg Castle near Deutschlandsberg , Styria , Austria ; †  March 16, 1955 in Vaduz , Liechtenstein ) was a Prince of Liechtenstein.

biography

Alois was born as the third child of Alfred von und zu Liechtenstein and Henriette von Liechtenstein at Hollenegg Castle.

He was an active Rittmeister in the 12th Uhlan Regiment, most recently as a lieutenant colonel. Alois married Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria , a daughter of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and Marie Therese von Braganza , on April 20, 1903 in Vienna . At the engagement on November 8, 1902 in Laxenburg , Emperor Franz Joseph I personally made it clear that his niece Elisabeth Amalie could not marry any of his subjects and consequently no Austrian citizen. He therefore made the prince's abandonment of Austrian citizenship a condition for marriage.

The family property in Bohemia and Moravia was greatly reduced by a land reform. The high inheritance taxes in Czechoslovakia were the motive to skip a whole generation in the succession. After the childless brothers Johann II. And Franz, who ruled as Prince Franz I from 1929 to 1938 , the sons of Prince Alfred (1842–1907) were entitled to inheritance. But on February 26, 1923, both the next heir, but unmarried and childless Prince Franz (1868–1929) and his younger brother Prince Alois renounced the princely majority candidate and the succession to the throne in the Principality of Liechtenstein. The succession passed to Alois' eldest son Franz Josef (1906–1989), the emperor's godchild. The waiver was announced by handwriting from Prince Johann II on March 15, 1923. Franz Josef II. Took during the war in 1944 his parents from their home in the Moravian Castle United Ullersdorf on Vaduz Castle .

Alois von und zu Liechtenstein was seen as a patron of science and the arts. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts. Alois was a knight of the order of the Golden Fleece ; his wife Elisabeth Amalie was a lady of the Star Cross . Alois was a member of the K.Ö.St.V. Austria Wien in the ÖCV .

Alois von und zu Liechtenstein with his wife Elisabeth Amalie and their eldest son Franz Josef as a toddler

progeny

  • Franz Josef II (born August 16, 1906 - November 13, 1989), Prince of Liechtenstein, ⚭ 1943 Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921–1989)
  • Marie Therese (born January 14, 1908; † September 30, 1973), ⚭ 1944 Count Arthur Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche and Camminetz (1905–1996)
  • Karl Alfred (born August 16, 1910; † November 17, 1985), ⚭ 1949 Archduchess Agnes Christina of Austria (1928–2007)
  • Georg Hartmann (born November 11, 1911; † January 20, 1988), ⚭ 1948 Duchess Maria Christina von Württemberg (* 1924)
  • Ulrich (born August 29, 1913 - † October 13, 1978), unmarried
  • Marie Henriette (born November 6, 1914 - October 13, 2011), ⚭ 1943 Peter Graf and Edler Herr von und zu Eltz, called Faust von Stromberg (1909–1992)
  • Aloys (born December 20, 1917 - † February 14, 1967), unmarried
  • Heinrich (* October 21, 1920; † November 29, 1993), ⚭ 1968 Countess Amalie von Podstatzki (* 1935)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Emperor Franz Joseph I was in Laxenburg 100 years ago" PDF , from Kulturstein - newspaper of the Kulturverein Alt-Laxenburg, issue 57, December 2002, page 4, accessed on February 11, 2010 from the Google Cache as HTML due to reading problems with the original PDF file
  2. ^ Information from Arthur Stögmann, archivist of the Princely House Archives of the House of Liechtenstein, February 18, 2010
  3. ^ History of the House of Liechtenstein: Succession to the Throne ( Memento of October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Portal Principality of Liechtenstein, accessed on February 11, 2010
  4. ^ Prince Franz I ( Memento from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Portal Principality of Liechtenstein, accessed on February 11, 2010
  5. ↑ Darryl Lundy: Elisabeth Amelie Archduchess of Austria , on The Peerage.com
personal data
SURNAME Liechtenstein, Alois from and to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alois Maria Adolf; Aloys Gonzaga Maria Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince von und zu Liechtenstein
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH near Deutschlandsberg , Styria , Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1955
Place of death Vaduz , Liechtenstein