Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen

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Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen

Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen (born March 10, 1918 in Baden near Vienna , † December 11, 2007 in Brussels ; born as Karl Ludwig Maria Franz Joseph Michael Gabriel Antonius Robert Stephan Pius Gregor Ignatius Markus d'Aviano, Archduke of Austria ) was a Manager active in Belgium and Canada and the fifth child of Emperor Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita .

Life

The children of the imperial couple: Otto, Adelheid, Robert, Felix, Carl Ludwig , Rudolph, Charlotte and Elisabeth (from right to left)

Karl Ludwig was born on March 10, 1918, just a few months before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , he was "greeted" with 101 cannon shots. He spent his childhood in exile with his family, including on the island of Madeira . In the 1930s, like his older brother Otto , he studied at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium . After the German invasion in 1940, the family fled to North America via several European locations. Zita settled in Québec with her younger children, including Karl / Carl Ludwig . There Carl Habsburg-Lothringen received his doctorate in law as well as in political and social sciences at the University of Laval .

In 1943 he joined the US Army and led President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secret negotiations with Hungary in neutral Portugal, but they failed. As a US officer, he participated in the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944 . In 1947 he was dismissed from the military with the rank of major . In New York he began to work on behalf of a Belgian company, later his place of work was in Washington .

After the war, in 1950, he married Princess Yolande de Ligne (* 1923 in Madrid ), with whom he had four children. 1958 Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen returned to Europe with his family and worked for the Brussels holding company Société Générale de Belgique . He later founded the subsidiary Genstar in Canada for this holding company , which he managed until his retirement in 1986. The company was active in sectors such as construction, cement, chemicals, ocean transport, finance and high technology and employed more than twenty thousand people when Habsburg-Lothringen left.

Together with his brother Felix , Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen led lawsuits for the restitution of parts of the private Habsburg family assets expropriated under the Habsburg Law . It is true that these parts were legally refunded in the time of the corporate state (1934–1938) around 1935/36. After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, the property was again confiscated , this time by the German National Socialists.

Unlike his older brother Otto , according to a documentation by 3sat Carl Ludwig would never have signed the declaration of renunciation of membership of the House of Habsburg with his claims to power and never declared himself a citizen of the republic because he never wanted to accept the republic (see Habsburg law: Second Republic ). At the funeral of Empress Zitas in 1989, the government initially intended to refuse entry to Felix and Carl Ludwig. They were finally allowed to enter, but only for a few hours. In fact, waiver declarations made by him and his brother Felix Habsburg-Lothringen were considered sufficient by the then Austrian government on March 26, 1996 and subsequently by the Parliament's main committee on April 16, “so that the issuing of passports that are also valid for the Entry into Austria are valid, nothing stands in the way. "

Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen died in Brussels in mid-December 2007. On Saturday, January 12th, 2008, a requiem took place for him in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, at which family members read the prayers, the music at the service came from Bach and Mozart. At 5:30 p.m., the funeral procession moved from St. Stephen's Cathedral via Kärntner Straße, Führichgasse and Tegetthoffgasse to the Capuchin Church . Numerous traditional civil and military associations from the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy took part in the conduct, and the deceased was bid farewell by Tyrolean riflemen at the entrance to the Capuchin Church. The last escort gave him, among others, the last living sons of Emperor Karl and thus brothers Otto (1912–2011), Felix (1916–2011) and Rudolph (1919–2010). Carl Ludwig was then buried in the Capuchin crypt at the side of his mother Zita, the Habsburg-Lothringen family gathered later that evening in the Liechtenstein city palace .

progeny

  • Rudolf Maria Carl Eugen Anna Antonius Marcus d'Aviano (born November 17, 1950); ∞ Baroness Hélène de Villenfagne de Vogelsanck (born April 24, 1954). Children: 8
  • Alexandra Maria Anna Philippa Othonia, (born July 10, 1952); ∞ (1984) Hector Riesle (born February 16, 1943)
  • Carl Christian Maria Anna Rudolph Anton Marcus d'Aviano, (born August 26, 1954); ∞ (1982) Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg (born February 17, 1954), daughter of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium and sister of the reigning Grand Duke Henri . Children: 5
  • Maria Constanza Anna Rosario Roberta, (born October 19, 1957); ∞ (1994) Franz Joseph Auersperg -Trautson (born December 11, 1954)

Religious affiliations

publication

  • Social Monarchy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karl Ludwig Archduke of Austria on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ When Habsburg-Lothringen changed his first name from Karl to Carl is not known.
  3. ↑ NEWS series part 3: Austria's zero hour. The new small state started on November 12th, 1918. In: News , March 28, 2008 (citing several sources cited, including Wikipedia). Retrieved September 19, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c d Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen is dead. ( Memento from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Kurier / APA .
  5. ↑ Princesse Yolande Marie Jeanne Charlotte de Ligne on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  6. ↑ Portrait: Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen. In: Wiener Zeitung , print edition, December 15, 2007. Accessed November 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b An (almost) normal family: The Habsburgs. In: 3sat documentation, August 2010. Retrieved on September 19, 2010.
  8. ↑ Main Committee: Declarations of waiver by the House of Habsburgs sufficient. National Council President Fischer welcomes unanimous decision. In: Parliament correspondence of the Austrian Parliament of April 16, 1996, No. 196.
personal data
SURNAME Habsburg-Lothringen, Carl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habsburg-Lothringen, Karl Ludwig; Karl Ludwig Maria Franz Joseph Michael Gabriel Antonius Robert Stephan Pius Gregor Ignatius Markus d'Aviano, Archduke of Austria (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2007
Place of death Brussels