Hubert Franz Maria von Andlau-Homburg

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Hubert von Andlau-Homburg, as Vice President of the German Catholic Congress, 1905
Hubert d'Andlau-Hombourg

Hubert Franz Maria Graf von Andlau-Homburg (French Hubert d'Andlau de Hombourg , born June 7, 1868 in the Heidenfeld monastery ; † November 3, 1959 in Stotzheim , Alsace) was an Alsatian nobleman, landowner and politician.

Life

Graf von Andlau-Homburg came from a line of the Lower Alsatian noble family of Andlau . He was born the son of the Austrian officer Carl von Andlau-Homburg (1819–1874) and Emilie Freiin von Bodeck-Ellgau (1843–1910). His godfather was the future Cardinal von Faulhaber , his older brother the Jesuit Father Karl Maria von Andlau-Homburg (1865–1935), a confidante of Emperor Karl I of Austria . They were both great-nephews of Benedikt Anton Friedrich von Andlau-Homburg (1761-1839), last abbot of the Murbach monastery and prince of the Holy Roman Empire .

Hubert von Andlau-Homburg attended the Jesuit grammar school in Feldkirch (Austria) and served as a cavalry officer in the Austrian army from 1887 to 1898. In 1898 he returned to the family estate in Stotzheim. He became the association director of the rural cooperatives in Alsace-Lorraine and from 1911 was appointed by the emperor to be a member of the first chamber of the state parliament of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . In 1905 Andlau acted as Vice President of the German Catholic Congress in Strasbourg . From 1902 to 1935 he was mayor of Stotzheim, and between 1928 and 1941 he was also a member of the French Senate .

The Count had been married to Marie Sophie Klothilde Christine Freiin von Coehorn (1872–1960) since 1891, and the couple had six children. She was the great-granddaughter of Count Theodor Waldner von Freundstein (1786–1864) and granddaughter of Count Adalbert Waldner von Freundstein (1819–1857) and his wife Louise Cécile Rose Elisabeth Sophie Tascher de La Pagerie (1818–1890), whose father Pierre Claude Louis Robert Tascher de La Pagerie (1787–1861) in turn was the cousin of Emperor Napoleon's first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais .

literature

  • R. Adé, Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Our contemporaries. Who is it - 8th edition - Leipzig: Degener, 1922

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Remarks

  1. ↑ private records of the daughter of Josephine Gabriele Marie von Andlau-Homburg, which are in the diocese archive of Würzburg
  2. ↑ same source as for note 1
  3. ↑ Genealogical family website
  4. ↑ Genealogical website about the wife


personal data
SURNAME Andlau-Homburg, Hubert Franz Maria von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andlau-Homburg, Hubert Franz Maria Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nobleman, mayor, member of the French Senate
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenfeld Monastery
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1959
Place of death Stotzheim , Alsace