Joachim von Schönburg-Glauchau (1873–1943)

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Joachim Count von Schönburg-Glauchau

Joachim von Schönburg-Glauchau , full name Joachim Maria Joseph Franz de Paula Anton Alfred Alfons Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (born July 20, 1873 in Wechselburg ; † July 3, 1943 in Leipzig ) was a German count and member of the First Chamber of Saxony Landtag .

biography

He was born the son of Count Karl Heinrich Wolf Wilhelm Franz von Schönburg-Glauchau (1832–1898) and his wife, Countess Adelheid von Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld (1845–1873). The mother died just five days after his birth, of the aftermath, which is why the boy grew up with the stepmother and second wife of his father, Countess Marie Eugenie Leonarde Sophie d'Ursel (1851-1932). She was the sister of the Catholic Belgian politician Joseph d'Ursel .

Joachim von Schönburg-Glauchau studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Prague and Leipzig . In 1895 he became a lieutenant in the 1st Royal Saxon Hussar Regiment "King Albert" No. 18 , when his father died in 1898 he inherited the Fordglauchau Castle in Glauchau and the family property in Penig and Wechselburg; In 1900 also Hinterglauchau Castle in Glauchau and Rochsburg Castle in the town of the same name. From 1899 he sat as a member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament. At the same time he remained an officer à la suite in the Saxon army .

The count was also involved in the Catholic Church, among other things, he acted as Vice President of the event at the German Katholikentag in Augsburg in 1910 .

In 1898 Joachim von Schönburg-Glauchau married Octavia, Countess Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin (1873–1946) in Prague . She was the daughter of Count Boguslaw Chotek von Chotkow (1829-1896) and the sister of Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkova and Wognin, Princess von Hohenberg (1868-1914), who, together with her husband, the Austrian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria -Este , was murdered in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 , which led to the outbreak of the First World War .

The Saxon nobleman died in Leipzig in 1943. His daughter Adelheid Henriette Wilhelmine Sophia Maria (1900–1987) married Count Franz Ludwig von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1892–1989) in 1920 , from 1950 head of his aristocratic family. His great-granddaughter Gloria von Thurn und Taxis is among his direct descendants .

progeny

  • Friedrich Carl, called Carl (born July 26, 1899 - † April 12, 1945)
⚭ 1927 Maria Anna von Barorów-Baworowska (1902–1988)
  • Adelheid Henriette (born July 28, 1900 - † January 7, 1987)
⚭ 1920 Franz Ludwig von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1892–1989)
  • Wolfgang (* 1901 / † 1901)
  • Wilhelmine Aloyse (born October 17, 1902 - † September 25, 1964)
⚭ 1921 Maximilian Egon zu Fürstenberg (1896–1959)
  • Maria Immaculata (born August 22, 1904, † May 13, 1999)
  • Elizabeth Karoline (born November 11, 1905 - † October 25, 1999)
  • Franziska Sophie (born December 25, 1907 - † January 10, 1965)
  • Ernst Heinrich (born January 13, 1910 - † September 5, 1939)
  • Marie-Agnes (born January 12, 1912 - † July 6, 1994)
⚭ 1935 Felix Fleischer (1908–1990)

literature

  • Franz Neubert : Deutsches Zeitgenossen-Lexikon , 1905, page 1300

Web links

Commons : Joachim von Schönburg-Glauchau (* 1873)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical website on Marie Sophie d'Ursel and her family
personal data
SURNAME Schönburg-Glauchau, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönburg-Glauchau, Joachim Graf von; Schönburg-Glauchau, Joachim Maria Joseph Franz de Paula Anton Alfred Alfons Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wechselburg
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1943
Place of death Leipzig