Friedrich Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

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Friedrich Franz Augustin Maria Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (born February 15, 1879 in Budapest ; † May 24, 1958 in Curitiba , Brazil ) was an Austro-Hungarian nobleman and is primarily the husband of Stephanie von Hohenlohe , born Richter, known.

Life

Origin and first marriage

Friedrich Franz was the second son of Prince Chlodwig Karl zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1848–1929) and his first wife Franziska, nee. Countess Esterházy von Galántha, born. He had two brothers and two sisters.

As an aristocrat from the Hohenlohe family, he was appointed military attaché at the Austro-Hungarian embassy in Saint Petersburg , then the capital of the Russian Empire (according to another source, military attaché in Hungary). According to documents published by the British Security Service (better known as MI5 ) in 2005 , Friedrich Franz zu Hohenlohe became head of German propaganda and director of German espionage in Switzerland during the First World War . It was in this environment that he met the much younger middle-class Jew Stephanie Juliana Richter, who lives in Vienna, and who is of Hungarian descent. Three weeks later he proposed marriage to her, as the historian Martha Schad did in her monograph Hitler's Spy. The life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe (2002) writes:

“Stephanie reports that she was asked to play something on the piano at a hunt organized by Princess Metternich. A young man joined them and she met her future husband - Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. The next day they met again and he offered to take her home. Then he noticed that Stephanie had a governess. But this "obstacle" could also be overcome, and Stephanie managed to arrange three secret rendezvous with the prince. "And within two weeks he proposed to me."

According to the Schad monograph mentioned and other sources, this contradicts the fact that the marriage was arranged by Emperor Franz Joseph I to cover up the scandal that Stephanie Richter was having an affair with Franz Joseph's son-in-law, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria-Tuscany : Stephanie was pregnant by him, but her lover was married to Marie Valerie von Austria and was already the father of ten children. On May 12, 1914, Franz, as he was called by his nickname, married in London in an morganatic marriage and Stephanie Richter, who thus became Princess Stéphanie zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst , later better known as Stephanie von Hohenlohe and " Hitler's spy". It is probable that she subjugated the future child to her groom Friedrich Franz before the marriage :

“When Stephanie was expecting a child, the“ good Emperor Franz Joseph ”arranged the marriage to the 36-year-old Friedrich Franz Prince von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. But the way the wedding went, it doesn't exactly suggest a love marriage. It took place on May 12, 1914 in silence in Westminster Cathedral in London . "

Seven months after the marriage, Stephanie's son Franz Josef Rudolf Hans Weriand was born in Vienna on December 5, 1914, Max Stefan Anton Prince zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (* December 5, 1914; † July 12, 2008). Friedrich Franz recognized him as his biological child and gave him his family name. The Prince, son of Stephanie and Friedrich Franz,

“… Speaks of a happy childhood. Franz spent most of his early years in the elegantly furnished apartment of his mother and grandmother opposite the opera, Kärntner Ring 2. Whenever the political situation seemed particularly tense, Franz and his nanny were sent away from the city center. At the age of ten, "Franzi" went to the Swiss private school "Le Rosey" near Lausanne , where well-off parents sent their hopeful offspring to be educated. The young Prince Franz then moved to the "College de Normandie" near Rouen, and finally to the "Magdalen College" in Oxford . "

On July 20, 1920, the marriage in Budapest was divorced at the request of Friedrich Franz.

Second marriage and death

On December 6, 1920, Friedrich Franz married Countess Emanuela Katharine Barbara Helene Batthyány Németújvári (born April 1, 1883 in Ikervár ; † December 13, 1964 in Curitiba), daughter of Count Ludwig Stefan Ladislaus Anton Geza Batthyány (1860– 1951) and Countess Helene Andrassy de Csik-Szent-Kiraly et Krasna-Horka (1858–1952). This marriage remained childless. In the last days of World War II, the couple moved to Curitiba in Brazil . He died there on May 24, 1958.

literature

  • Jim Wilson: Nazi Princess. Hitler, Lord Rothermere and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe. The History Press, 2011, ISBN 0752461141 .
  • Martha Schad : Hitler's spy. The life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 9783453211650 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chlodwig Karl married Countess Franziska Esterházy in Vienna on January 15, 1877 (date of divorce unknown), his second marriage to Countess Sarolta Mailáth de Székhely was on March 2, 1890, cf. Chlodwig Karl Joseph Maria Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst on thepeerage.com , accessed on July 28, 2018. Chlodwig Karl's father was Friedrich zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst .
  2. ↑ a b c d cf. September 16, 1891 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe. In: Stichtag, radio broadcast of WDR 2 , in the online version from September 16, 2011, accessed on July 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Martha Schad: Hitler's spy. The life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe. Pp. 12-14.
  4. ↑ a b Martha Schad: Hitler's spy. The life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe. P. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Friedrich Franz zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Friedrich Franz Augustin Maria Prinz zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian nobleman and military attaché
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1958
Place of death Curitiba , Brazil