Franz Josef zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Franz Josef zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (born June 6, 1894 in Graz , † January 3, 1970 in Schillingsfürst ) was a German genealogist . He founded the Genealogical Handbook of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria and published a number of genealogical treatises himself.

Life

He was the son of the then Prince and later Prince Moritz zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1862–1940). He spent his youth in Altaussee in the Salzkammergut . In 1924 he married Aglae zu Schönburg-Hartenstein in Vienna and moved to the headquarters in Schillingsfürst. In 1940 he succeeded the deceased father in his property management, in 1960 he was elected senior of the entire Hohenlohe family .

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He dealt with genealogy from an early age. His first comprehensive publication was the pedigree of Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , published in 1937, and a little later he published a pedigree for the quay. Russian Field Marshal Ludwig Adolf Peter Graf zu Sayn-Wittgenstein . The 1358 descendants of the painter Peter Paul Rubens followed in 1940 . His last major writing was Monarchs - Nobles - Citizens. The descendants of Prince Karl Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg from 1952, which goes far beyond a purely genealogical work and shows how a change in the choice of partners of former rulers has taken place through the loss of the throne and civil professions.

In the spring of 1945 he succeeded the late Karl von Aretin in continuing the Bavarian aristocratic registers. Plans for the continuation of the Gothaischen Genealogical Handbook , which had been interrupted since 1942, led to the establishment of the Genealogical Handbook of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria , which appeared from 1950. In addition to the continuation of the register, one of the aims of the publications was to bring together the aristocratic families, who were widely dispersed due to the chaos of war. From the second volume of 1951, the genealogist Gerhart Nebinger contributed to the nobility handbook. Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst published the first five volumes himself before the Association of the Aristocracy in Bavaria took over the publication with Volume VI .

children

• Karl Albrecht, 7th Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1926-2005)

∞ Ladislaja, Countess of Meran (* 1926)

• Johanna, Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (* 1930)

∞ Volkart Heim (* 1928)

∞ Thomas Rehner (1918–2011)

literature

• Adalbert Freiherr von Pechmann: Prince Franz Josef zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, the founder of the Bavarian genealogical aristocratic manual for memory , in: Genealogie , Heft 11-12 / 1994, pp. 344–346.