Anton Habsburg-Lothringen

Anton Habsburg-Lothringen (born March 20, 1901 in Vienna , † October 22, 1987 in Salzburg ; born as Anton Maria Franz Leopold Blanka Karl Joseph Ignatius Raphael Michael Margareta Nicetas, Archduke of Austria ) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen .

Life

Anton was the third son of ten children of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (1863-1931) and his wife of the Spanish Infanta Blanca de Castilla de Borbón (1868-1949), eldest daughter of Infante Carlos María de los Dolores de Borbón , Duke of Madrid (1848–1909), as “Carlos VII.” Pretender to the Spanish throne, and his wife Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma . His paternal grandparents were Archduke Karl Salvator and Princess Maria Immaculata of Naples-Sicily .

After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy at the end of the First World War in 1918, Archduke Anton of Austria-Tuscany lived with his parents in Frohsdorf in Lower Austria - before the family of the deposed Emperor Karl I left because of his father's threatened expulsion . Later he lived with his parents in exile in Switzerland , later in Germany and France .

Wedding of Anton of Austria-Tuscany and Ileana of Romania in 1931

On July 26, 1931, Anton Habsburg-Lothringen (Anton of Austria-Tuscany) married at Peleș Castle in Sinaia (Princess) Ileana Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1909–1991), youngest daughter of the Romanian King Ferdinand I and his wife Princess Marie of Saxony -Coburg and Gotha . After the marriage, Ileana was ordered by her brother, King Charles II , to live outside of Romania for political reasons, as he believed that the Romanian people would not accept a marriage to a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine . The couple therefore stayed first in Munich and Mödling near Vienna and later at their Sonnberg Castle in the Weinviertel . Six children emerged from the joint relationship:

• Stefan (1932–1998) ⚭ 1954 Mary Jerrine Soper
• Maria-Ileana, called Minola (1933–1959) ⚭ 1957 Jaroslaw Graf von Kotulin and Dobrzenicz (1917–1959)
• Alexandra, called Sandi (* 1935) ⚭ 1962–1972 Eugen Eberhard Prince of Württemberg | ⚭ 1973 Victor Freiherr von Baillou
• Dominik, called Niki (* 1937), industrial designer ⚭ 1960 Engel de Voss
• Maria Magdalena, called Magi (* 1939) ⚭ 1959 Hans Freiherr von Holzhausen
• Elisabetha, called Herzi (1942–2019) ⚭ 1964 Friedrich Sandhofer

During the Second World War , Anton Habsburg-Lothringen served as an aviator in the German Wehrmacht until the end of 1944 . After his release he moved to Bran in Romania, where his family lived at Bran Castle . After the coup and the dissolution of Romania's alliance with Germany on August 23, 1944, the couple, their children and domestic workers, as citizens of the German Reich, were in danger of being interned or expelled from the country. But it was not until King Michael I had to abdicate and leave the country on December 30, 1947, that the Habsburgs-Lorraine family was expelled from the country.

The family initially resided in Switzerland and Argentina , and in the early 1950s they lived in the United States . In 1954 the couple divorced and Anton Habsburg-Lothringen went back to Austria, where he lived in Emmerberg (Lower Austria) and in St. Lorenz am Mondsee (Upper Austria) in the Villa Minola (after his death from the new owner) until his death renamed Villa Mizzi) lived. His grave is in the Mondsee cemetery. Bran Castle was given back to the children after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 .

Nobility historical titles

• Until 1919: His Imperial and Royal Highness Anton Maria Franz Leopold Blanka Karl Joseph Ignatius Raphael Michael Margareta Nicetas, Imperial Prince, Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Royal Prince of Tuscany (see Nobility Repeal Act ).
• Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia

Religious affiliations

• Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
• Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle
• Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert
• Knight of the Order of Charles I of Romania

various

• On May 26, 2006, the return document for Bran Castle was signed in Bran in the presence of Dominic of Austria-Tuscany and the Romanian Minister of Culture Adrian Iorgulescu .
• Succession to the throne in Great Britain

literature

• Archduke Anton , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1949 of August 22, 1949, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Ileana von Österreich-Toskana: A Live Again Princess Of Romania Archduchess Of Austria . Rinehart & Company Incorporated, 1952.
• Hannah Pakula: The Last Romantic. Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania . Phoenix House, 1996, ISBN 1-85799-816-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hannah Pakula: The Last Romantic: Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania. Phoenix House, 1996, ISBN 1-85799-816-2 .
2. ↑ Entry about Schloss Sonnberg on Burgen-Austria
3. ↑ Russian billionaire wants Dracula's castle.
4. ↑ British throne on wargs.com

Web links

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