Ernst Hohenberg

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Ernst Hohenberg circa 1914
Ernst Hohenberg circa 1914

Ernst Hohenberg , birth name Ernst Alfons Franz Ignaz Joseph Maria Anton Fürst von Hohenberg (born May 27, 1904 in Konopischt in Böhmen ; † March 5, 1954 in Graz ) was a forester, until 1919 an Austrian aristocrat of the ducal-princely house of Hohenberg and a political speaker and victims of the Nazi regime.

Life

Franz Ferdinand with his family, around 1908

Ernst was the second son of four children of the Austrian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1863-1914) and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868-1914). Due to the morganatic marriage of his parents, he and his siblings were excluded from the line of succession. After the assassination attempt on his parents in 1914, the children came into the care of his maternal aunt, Countess Henriette Chotek. They were received only once by Emperor Franz Joseph I. While his brother Maximilian was given the title of firstborn duke with the death of his parents , Ernst and the other family members had the nobility title of prince and princess.

Ernst Hohenberg studied forestry in Bruck an der Mur . Together with his brother Maximilian , he was a speaker at monarchist meetings in Austria. Both brothers were members of the Home Guard in the 1930s . You were also in close contact with Otto von Habsburg .

In 1938 he and his brother, who had spoken out in favor of Austria's independence and against the "Anschluss" to the German Reich , were sent to the Dachau concentration camp . The brothers were also expropriated by the National Socialist rulers. Ownership of 20,000 hectares became the property of the German Empire. This was one of the largest expropriations ever in Austria. The imprisonment of the Hohenberg brothers attracted a lot of attention in western countries.

Maximilian was released after six months, while Ernst was transferred to other concentration camps and was only able to return home in 1943. After the war, Ernst von Hohenberg regained the expropriated property with the support of Minister Peter Krauland .

Ernst Hohenberg died on March 5, 1954 in Graz as a result of the abuse he suffered in the concentration camp and was buried next to his parents in the crypt under the church of Artstetten Castle in Lower Austria .

In the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand Museum in Artstetten Castle, which was established in 1982 by the French Count Romée de La Poeze d´Harambure, who married Maximilian's granddaughter Anita Hohenberg, are the lives of the children of the heir to the throne, family life, the loss of property from Konopischt and Chlumetz in Bohemia, documented the expropriation by the National Socialists and the imprisonment of the two brothers Max and Ernst Hohenberg during the Nazi regime. Documents about this period and the attempts at liberation are kept in the castle archive.

Marriage and offspring

On May 25, 1936, he married Maria Therese Wood (1910–1985) in Vienna, a daughter of Georg Jervis Wood and Countess Rosa Lónyay von Nagy-Lónyay and Vásáros-Namény. The connection resulted in two children:

  • Franz Ferdinand (1937–1978)
⚭ 1964 Heide Zechling (1941–2015)
  • Ernst Georg (* 1944)
⚭ 1973–1999 Patricia Anette Caesar (* 1950)
⚭ 2007 Margareta Anna Ndisi (* 1959)

Web links

Commons : Ernst Hohenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The nobility and the Nazis, Part 2: Reich within the Reich. In: profil , No. 32/08, May 27, 2004. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  2. ^ Fritz Kieffer: Persecution of the Jews in Germany - an internal matter? 2002, p. 159 ( side view in Google Book search .)
personal data
SURNAME Hohenberg, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenberg, Ernst Alfons Franz Ignaz Joseph Maria Anton (full name); Hohenberg, Ernst Alfons Franz Ignaz Joseph Maria Anton Fürst von (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian victim of National Socialism, member of the Austrian Home Guard, descendant of the House of Habsburg
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Konopischt , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1954
Place of death Graz