Karl Maria von Andlau

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Father Karl Maria von Andlau

Karl Maria Graf von Andlau-Homburg (born November 28, 1865 in Stotzheim , Alsace ; † December 30, 1935 in Kalksburg , today a district of Vienna ) was an Alsatian count and Jesuit priest .

family

Karl von Andlau came from a line of the Lower Alsatian noble family of the Counts of Andlau . He was born to the Austrian officer Raymond Carl von Andlau-Homburg (1819–1874) and his wife Emilie von Bodeck-Ellgau (1843–1910). His younger brother was the politician Hubert Franz Maria von Andlau-Homburg (1868-1959). Both were the great nephews of Benedikt Anton Friedrich von Andlau-Homburg (1761–1839), last abbot of the Murbach monastery and prince of the Holy Roman Empire .

Life

The count entered the Jesuit order on October 30, 1887. There he mostly had no title of nobility and simply called himself Father Karl Andlau. He was a well-known preacher of his order and was promoted to rector of the Jesuit college in Kalksburg on August 18, 1904 . From 1915 to 1919 Karl von Andlau acted as Provincial of the Austro-Hungarian Jesuits. At the Eucharistic Congress in Vienna in 1912 he gave a widely acclaimed sermon on the subject of “The Holy Eucharist and the House of Habsburg” . He died in December 1935 in the college in Kalksburg.

Father Karl Maria von Andlau had a special relationship of trust with the last Austrian Emperor Karl I and with his wife Empress Zita . He got to know the future emperor as a child when he was given physical education at the Kalksburger Kollegium. The Habsburg elected him confessor and Father Andlau prepared him and his bride for the sacrament of marriage in 1911 .

Even after the death of Emperor Karl, the Jesuit stayed in contact with his family and visited them in 1923, for example, in their Spanish exile. Here he gave Empress Zita a Christmas mass that he had composed in German with old Slovak melodies as a present, which is still sold today under the name “Small Christmas Mass for the Empress” . The emperor's son Otto von Habsburg described Andlau as a “great friend” of his widowed mother.

Karl Maria von Andlau also worked as a religious advisor to Countess Ada Chotek , later Sr. Maria Annuntiata (1890-1939), whose father Karl Maria Paul Anton Boguslaw Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin (1853-1926) a cousin of Sophie Chotek, Princess of Hohenberg , the wife of the Austrian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand . Father Andlau supported her in founding her order of the Eucharistic Sisters . In the book “Answer of Love, Life and Work of Mother Maria Annuntiata Chotek” (House Königstein Institute for Church History of Bohemia-Moravia-Silesia, 1997) the author Rudolf Grulich sees him “almost as a co-founder of the congregation, since he was with self-sacrificing love promoted the work, stood by the founder with the rich treasure of his experiences and helped overcome many difficulties. "

literature

  • Schematism of the Austro-Hungarian Jesuit Province, 1909 : To Pater Andlau, p. 22 u. 84; ( PDF document )
  • Fritz Fellner: Fateful Years of Austria, 1908-1919: Josef Redlich's political diary , Volume 40, Böhlau Verlag, 1954, p. 360; (Detail scan)
  • Elisabeth Kovács: Fall or Rescue of the Danube Monarchy ?: Political documents on Emperor and King Charles I from international archives , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 2004, ISBN 3205772385 , p. 103, footnote 1; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Czech curriculum vitae of Father Andlau with photo and date of death
  2. ↑ Genealogical family website
  3. ↑ Charles E. O'Neill, Joaquín María Domínguez: Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús , Volume 1, p. 298, Univ. Pontifica Comillas, 2001, ISBN 8484680371 ; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Elisabeth Kovács: Biographical information on Archduke Carl Franz Joseph , Chapter III .; (Digital output)
  5. ↑ Jan Mikrut: Emperor Karl I (IV.) As a Christian, statesman, husband and family father , Volume 1 of: Publications of the International Research Institute for the Promotion of Church History in Central Europe , 2004, ISBN 3853511880 , p. 46; (Detail scan)
  6. ^ Website on the history of the fair
  7. ^ Report of Otto von Habsburg; (PDF view)
  8. ↑ Website with an article on Countess Ada Choteck and the foundation of the Eucharistic Sisters
personal data
SURNAME Andlau, Karl Maria von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andlau-Homburg, Karl Maria Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian count and Jesuit priest
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Stotzheim , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1935
Place of death Kalksburg , today a district of Vienna