Karl Egon V. zu Fürstenberg

Landgrave Prince Karl Egon V zu Fürstenberg
oil painting by John Quincy Adams (1929)

Karl Egon V. zu Fürstenberg , full name: Karl Egon V. Maximilian Maria Emil Leo Erwin Franziskus Xaver Johannes Prince zu Fürstenberg, Landgrave in the Baar and zu Stühlingen, Count zu Heiligenberg and Werdenberg , (* May 6, 1891 in Vienna ; † September 23, 1973 in Munich ) was an Austrian or German nobleman and SS-Obersturmführer.

Life

Coat of arms of the princes of Fürstenberg

Karl Egon V. zu Fürstenberg was the son of Prince Max Egon II zu Fürstenberg and Irma Countess von Schönborn-Buchheim (1867–1948).

In 1921 in Vienna he married Franziska Ida Mena Countess Nostitz- Rieneck (1902–1961), a daughter of Erwein Nostitz-Rieneck . The marriage remained childless.

Karl Egon V was head of the Fürstenberg family. After the death of his father, the former Prince Max Egon II, he would have been given the "Swabian household goods". However, he renounced this in favor of his brother's children. While Karl Egon took up residence in Heiligenberg Castle on Lake Constance and in Weitra Castle (Lower Austria), his father lived in Donaueschingen Castle .

Karl Egon V was appointed SS-Obersturmführer in 1939, and he was accepted into the NSDAP ( membership number 8,543,545) at the beginning of January 1941. In the Wehrmacht, the former lieutenant of the Potsdam Guard du Corps held the rank of major since 1943 .

Fürstenberg was an honorary citizen of Heiligenberg and Weitra . He was also Grand Commander of the Order of St. George in Bavaria and holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of Malta .

He is buried in the Fürstenberg family crypt in Altweitra , Lower Austria.

literature

Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
Stephan Malinowski : From King to Leader. German nobility and National Socialism , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 3rd edition, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-16365-6 , p. 583.

Web links

Karl Egon V. Fürst zu Fürstenberg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1973 of December 10, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/nostitz/nostitz4.html
↑ Stephan Malinowski : From the king to the leader. German nobility and National Socialism. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 3rd edition, Berlin 2010, p. 583.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 153.

personal data
SURNAME	Fürstenberg, Karl Egon V. too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian and German nobleman and SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	23rd September 1973
Place of death	Munich

[1] ttp://genealogy.euweb.cz/nostitz/nostitz4.html

[2] Stephan Malinowski : From the king to the leader. German nobility and National Socialism. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 3rd edition, Berlin 2010, p. 583.

[Klee153-3] A ^b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 153.