Hubertus of Hohenlohe

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Hubertus zu Hohenlohe Alpine skiing
Hubertus zu Hohenlohe (Vienna 2015)
Hubertus zu Hohenlohe (Vienna 2015)
nation MexicoMexico Mexico
birthday 2nd February 1959 (age 61)
place of birth Mexico City , Mexico
size 184 cm
Weight 82 kg
Career
discipline Downhill, Super G, giant slalom,
slalom, combination
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 8, 1981
in Aprica
 Overall World Cup 42nd (1981/82)
 Combination World Cup 4. (1981/82)
last change: February 24, 2010

Hubertus Prinz zu Hohenlohe (born February 2, 1959 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is a photographer , singer and ski racer . He lives in Marbella ( Spain ), Liechtenstein and Vienna . Due to his professional activities, he spends long and long periods abroad, where he maintains contacts with the jet set .

The native of the Hohenlohe family was granted Liechtenstein citizenship through a decision made by his paternal grandfather in 1918 and, due to his birth in Mexico, also Mexican citizenship .

family

Hubertus zu Hohenlohe was born in Mexico City in 1959 as the son of Ira von Fürstenberg (* 1940) and Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1924–2003) when his father was building Volkswagen's Mexico business there.

In 1960, Ira von Fürstenberg met the Brazilian entrepreneur and playboy Francisco Pignatari (1916–1977). There was a spectacular dispute over the children with kidnapping and legal battles. It was only when it was decided that the children could stay with Alfonso that he withdrew the charges of adultery against Ira. But Alfonso opposed the court-ordered shared custody. As a result, Ira unsuccessfully sent private investigators to bring the children over. Only after her divorce from Pignatari in 1964 did Alfonso allow her to visit the children again.

When Hubertus zu Hohenlohe was four years old, the family moved to Marbella in Spain, where he partly grew up in his father's five-star hotel. The international jet set celebrities were often to be found in the parents' apartment in the hotel. When he was ten years old, his father sent him to a convent school with boarding school in Vorarlberg to keep him away from the “rich children in Spain”, “who started taking drugs at the age of 14, 15 [...] and otherwise smoking up”. When he was eleven, an aunt brought him into her family with seven children in Styria, where he completed his school days. He also grew up in Liechtenstein and studied there.

Hubertus' mother is a niece of the former Fiat boss Giovanni Agnelli . His older brother, Christoph Hohenlohe, died in 2006 after a short stay in a Thai prison. This was intended for the successor in the father's company, so that the younger one looked for his place in other fields, which brought him to skiing, photography and artistic activity.

The only slightly younger Karl Hohenlohe is a great-uncle of Christoph and Hubertus Hohenlohe.

According to his own information, his correct name is "Hubertus Prince zu Hohenlohe". At the FIS it is registered under the spelling "Hubertus von Hohenlohe".

Ski racer

World cup

His first race disputed Hohenlohe for Mexico at the Alpine Ski World Cup 1981/82 in the discipline combination on December 8, 1981 in Aprica (Italy). Werner Grissmann had made a bet with him for five bottles of champagne for this race that he would stay at least ten seconds ahead of Hohenlohe. Grissmann lost because he was only nine seconds ahead. He was only allowed to compete in Mexico because he was born in Mexico and because he founded the Mexican Ski Association in the year of his first race. He scored several World Cup points and made it into the top 10 in the combination five times . Since 1982 he has participated with interruptions in the World Ski Championships and therefore holds several records in this context.

Hohenlohe was initially an active ski racer until 1988, then he devoted himself more to art. From 1992 onwards he took part in skiing again, although at first he contested fewer and fewer World Cup races, and from 1996 to 2004 he stopped taking part in World Cup races at all. In the 2004/05 season he started in Adelboden , Wengen and Kitzbühel . In 2006/07 he was more active, taking part in the Reiteralm near Schladming , in Adelboden, Wengen and Kitzbühel - when he was almost 48 years old. With the exception of 54th and last place 25 seconds behind on the Reiteralm, however, he cannot show any result because he was either eliminated ( Lauberhorn descent ) or did not qualify for the second run.

His best World Cup result was a 5th place in the combination of Val Gardena together with Madonna di Campiglio (December 9th / 13th, 1981), in which only five runners came into the ranking (score 258.98 compared to winner Phil Mahre 18.56). According to the FIS homepage, he continues to take part in official FIS races under the identification number 540001.

winter Olympics

Hubertus zu Hohenlohe as the flag bearer for the entry of the teams at the 2010 Olympic Games

At the Olympic Games he represented Mexico in Sarajevo in 1984 , in Calgary in 1988 , in Albertville in 1992 , in Lillehammer in 1994 , in Vancouver in 2010 and in Sochi in 2014 . At the age of 51, Hohenlohe was the only representative of Mexico and also the oldest participant in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in the alpine ski disciplines of giant slalom and slalom . In the giant slalom he started 103rd and finished 78th. At the 2014 Winter Olympics , he was again the only representative of Mexico. His uncle Max von Hohenlohe also competed as a ski racer at the Olympic Games.

National championships

He has been Mexican champion several times, most recently in 2015 as the only representative of his ski association.

Alpine World Championships

His participation in the 2013 World Championships in Schladming at the age of 54 earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . At the 2015 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , he finished 46th and last in slalom.

His best World Cup results were two 26th places in the slaloms of Bormio 1985 and Vail 1989.

He participated in another World Championship in 2017 in St. Moritz , although he was unable to qualify for the main giant slalom competition (he wore start number 123 and was eliminated in the second qualifying run). In the slalom, however, he was there on February 19th: he started with No. 100, but was disqualified in the first round.

Occur

Hohenlohe is considered exotic in skiing because it competes in all races for the Mexican ski association and has only competed in the jerseys of well-known football clubs at world championships for some time. He wanted to take part again at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , but received a rejection from the Mexican Olympic Committee, as he would have been the only Mexican participating after the few others were all prevented, among other things by injuries. In the ARD show " Olympia with Waldi & Harry ", in which he was a guest, Hohenlohe presented his Olympic address, with which he would have started in the downhill . The typical clothing of a desperado was recorded on it, including a revolver. At the 2014 Winter Olympics , he again wore a conspicuous Olympic dress, but was eliminated after 54 seconds.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • Five top ten placements (all in combination)
World Cup ratings
  • 1981/82 : 42nd overall, 4th combination
  • 1982/83 : 80th overall, 29th combination
  • 1983/84 : 77th overall, 23rd combination
  • 1988/89 : 96th overall, 24th combination

National ski championships

  • 1995: DNF Super G
  • 1996: DNS1 giant slalom
  • 1996: DNF1 departure
  • 1996: 1st Super G
  • 1996: DNS1 giant slalom
  • 1997: 1st departure
  • 1997: DNF1 Super G
  • 2001: 1st departure
  • 2001: DNF1 Super G
  • 2001: 1st departure
  • 2003: 1st departure
  • 2003: DNF1 Super G
  • 2003: 1st departure
  • 2004: 1st departure
  • 2004: 1st Super G
  • 2005: 1st Super G
  • 2005: 1st departure
  • 2005: DNS1 departure
  • 2005: DNS1 Super G
  • 2006: 1st departure
  • 2006: 1st Super G
  • 2006: 1st Super G
  • 2006: DNS1 giant slalom
  • 2010: 1st slalom
  • 2010: 1st Super G
  • 2013: 1st slalom
  • 2013: 1st slalom
  • 2014: DNF1 giant slalom
  • 2015: 1st slalom

Musician

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Mirror images
  AT 60 05/05/2002 (2 weeks)
Singles
Hollywood
  AT 28 05/09/2004 (3 weeks)

Hohenlohe began his career as a musician in the mid-1980s. At the awarding of the golden record for Junge Roemer he met Falco , with whom he developed his song America . In 1987 he produced the work The Rhythm Devine, sung by Shirley Bassey , with the Swiss electro-pop duo Yello . In 1988 Hohenlohe released his first CD, Rio-Vienna. Other albums are Busy going nowhere (1994), Spiegelbilder (2002) and Enter my universe (2005).

He wrote a song for the musician Falco .

photographer

In 2001 von Hohenlohe initiated a photo series called Ira Valencia, in which he not only portrayed the central figure, but was also the director. He was discovered by the artist Irene Da Punt, who saw his photographs on the CD cover of his album Spiegelbilder . A series of exhibitions followed: Barcelona (2002), Marbella (2003), Bratislava (2004), Pisa (2004), Bologna (2004), Hamburg (2005), Vienna (2005), Paris (2006), Hamburg (2006) and the Byzantine Museum in Athens (2007). Contracts for advertising shoots followed, for example for Palmers and Puma . Hubertus von Hohenlohe was recently commissioned by Sir Rocco Forte to shoot a series of photos about his restaurant in the legendary Brown's Hotel in London . The central theme of his photographs is his own cosmopolitan life.

After a few years Hubertus von Hohenlohe is back in Marbella (Spain), his second home, and exhibited in the Houses of Art in the Marbella Club Hotel . In the exhibition Urban Jungles, which was on view from July 16 to August 20, 2009, he showed photographs from various cities around the world.

Works

Movie

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Let's talk about money: “Life is a game.” ( Memento from February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Hubertus von Hohenlohe. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 15, 2010. Accessed July 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph zu Hohenlohe: THE PRINCE & his journey into death. ( Memento of August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Park Avenue , issue 10/2006. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c Who is Hubertus von Hohenlohe, and why is he skiing for Mexico? In: Time.com, February 13, 2010 (English). Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  4. ^ A b Thomas Lelgemann: World Ski Championships: Hubertus von Hohenlohe writes ski history. In: Der Westen , February 16, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  5. ↑ In the program "Plasberg personally" on September 6, 2013 Hohenlohe said that he does not have Austrian citizenship.
  6. ↑ Ira von Fürstenberg: The prevented princess of Monaco. ( Memento of March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stern , April 18, 2005. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  7. ^ Francisco R. Pignatari. Biography. In: Glamor Girls Finder, undated. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  8. ^ Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe Plans His $ 1,000-a-Day 'Club Med for Millionaires. In: People.com magazine, April 7, 1980, Vol. 13, No. 14 (English). Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  9. ↑ a b Royal luxury for ski princes: Hubertus von Hohenlohe has no qualification concerns. In: News.at / APA , January 31, 2005. Accessed July 4, 2011.
  10. ↑ “At Stöckl” on ORF: Princes Hubertus and Karl Hohenlohe, Andrea Jonasson and Gaby Letzing. In: APA-OTS broadcast by the ORF press office, April 20, 2004. Accessed July 4, 2011.
  11. ↑ Biography: VON HOHENLOHE Hubert. Entry on the FIS website. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  12. ↑ The satisfied piste prince. In: Der Standard , February 24, 2010. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  13. ↑ Olympic superlatives: Hohenlohe is the oldest participant. In: Die Presse, February 12, 2010.
  14. ^ Sochi 2014: Olympic Team Mexico
  15. ^ Result of the slalom from April 4th, 2015.
  16. ↑ The noble Hubertus von Hohenlohe. Ski prince into the Guinness book. 8 In: Blick.ch , February 3, 2011. Accessed July 4, 2011.
  17. ↑ fis-ski.com ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ^ Result list Slalom WM 1985. See also Alpine Ski World Championships 1985 In: List of the Alpine World Championships 1931–2005. February 10, 1985, Bormio. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  19. ^ Result list of Slalom World Championships 1989. ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) In: List of the Alpine World Championships 1931–2005. February 12, 1989, Vail. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
  20. ↑ Failure in Sochi 2014: bild.de
  21. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  22. ↑ National Championships - Men's Giant Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  23. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  24. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  25. ↑ National Championships - Men's Giant Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  26. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  27. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  28. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  29. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  30. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  31. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  32. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  33. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  34. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  35. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  36. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  37. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  38. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  39. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  40. ↑ National Championships - Men's Downhill data.fis-ski.com/
  41. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  42. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  43. ↑ National Championships - Men's Giant Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  44. ↑ National Championships - Men's Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  45. ↑ National Championships - Men's Super G data.fis-ski.com/
  46. ↑ National Championships - Men's Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  47. ↑ National Championships - Men's Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  48. ↑ National Championships - Men's Giant Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  49. ↑ National Championships - Men's Slalom data.fis-ski.com/
  50. ↑ Charts AT

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personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe, Hubertus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe, Hubertus Prinz zu (real name); Hohenlohe, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein musician and photographer, Mexican ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico