Leopold Salvator of Austria-Tuscany

Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria-Tuscany, 1905

Leopold Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (born October 15, 1863 in Alt-Bunzlau , Bohemia , † September 4, 1931 in Vienna ) from the House of Habsburg-Lothringen ( Habsburg-Lothringen-Tuscany line ) was Archduke of Austria, Feldzeugmeister and since 1916 Colonel General .

Life

Archduke Leopold Salvator, with full name Leopold Salvator Maria Joseph Ferdinand Franz of Assisi Karl Anton of Padua Johann Baptist Januarius Aloys Gonzaga Rainer Wenzel Gallus of Austria-Tuscany , was born as the eldest son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria-Tuscany and Maria Immaculata of Naples Sicily , born Princess of Bourbon Sicily in 1863. He was a grandson of Leopold II of Tuscany . He was thus a member of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen and held the title Archduke of Austria until 1919 (see Nobility Repeal Act ). As a scion of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, he enjoyed a liberal upbringing.

Archduke Leopold Salvator with sister, brothers, wife and sister-in-law (1896)

Education and career

Archduke Leopold Salvator joined the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 77 as a lieutenant in 1878 and received his military training from 1881–83 at the Technical Military Academy in Vienna . After various deployments of the troops, he graduated from the war school from 1887-89 and came to Lemberg as a major in Corps Artillery Regiment No. 11 (1891 Lieutenant Colonel). Promoted to colonel in October 1892, he commanded a battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 24 in Lemberg, and since September 1894 the Corps Artillery Regiment No. 13 in Agram; In March 1896 he was appointed commander of the 13th Artillery Brigade in Agram (April 1896 Major General).

Archduke Leopold Salvator returned to the infantry in 1898: he commanded the 72nd Infantry Brigade, then - in 1899 as Lieutenant Field Marshal - the 36th Infantry Division in Zagreb (Agram), and finally the 25th Infantry Division in Vienna from 1900-06 . Archduke Leopold Salvator was appointed Feldzeugmeister on October 27, 1906 and General Artillery Inspector on April 20, 1907 . On May 20, 1916 he was promoted to Colonel General , and since March 5, 1918 he was on leave.

During the First World War, Leopold Salvator delivered expensive and inferior dried vegetables to the front. His goods and factory management in Jistebnitz near Tabor in Bohemia supplied the War Ministry with 11.3 million kilograms of dried vegetables for the army from 1914 to 1918 at a price of 84.6 million crowns. Dried vegetables were one of the main foods of the common soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army. Leopold Salvator actually had the monopoly here and dictated the price, with the Archduke earning around 20 million kroner as a net profit.

After the end of the First World War in 1918 he left Austria for Spain, then lived in Barcelona and did not return to Austria until 1930, shortly before his death. He was buried in the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna.

Doña Blanca de Borbón, Archduchess of Austria-Tuscany

Leopold Salvator with his wife and children (1912)

progeny

On October 24, 1889 , Leopold married Salvator Blanca de Castilla de Borbón (1868–1949), the eldest daughter of Infante Carlos María de Borbón , Duke of Madrid (1848–1909), as " Carlos VII. " Pretender to the Spanish throne, and his wife Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma (1847-1893).

• Maria de los Dolores Beatrix (1891–1974)
• Maria Immaculata (1892–1971)

⚭ 1932 Nobile Igino Neri-Serneri

• Margaretha (1894-1986)
• Rainer Karl (1895–1930)
• Leopold Maria Alphons (1897-1958)

⚭ 1919–1931 (morning) Dagmar Baroness Nicolics-Podrinska

⚭ 1932 (morning) Alicia Gibson Coburn

• Maria Antonia (1899–1977)

⚭ 1924 Don Ramón de Orlandis y Villalonga († 1936)

⚭ 1942 Luis Perez Sucre

• Anton (1901–1987)

⚭ 1931–1954 Ileana Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

• Assumpta Alice (1902-1993)

⚭ 1939–1950 Joseph Hopfinger

• Franz Josef (1905–1975)

⚭ 1937–1938 (morning) Maria Aloisa Baumer

⚭ 1962 (morning) Maria Elena Seunig

• Karl Pius (1909–1953)

⚭ 1928–1950 Doña Christa Satzger de Bálványos

literature

• Rainer Egger :  Leopold Salvator. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 293 ( digitized version ).
• Rainer Egger:  Leopold Salvator Archduke of Austria. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 146.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brigitte Hamann: The Habsburgs. A biographical lexicon. Vienna, 1998, p. 261
2. ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung, January 23, 1919, p. 5.
3. ↑ Official part - (Wednesday, July 19 this year,…; Archduke Leopold Salvator; Archduchess Blanca; Maria Antonia, Roberta, Blanca, Leopoldina, Beatrix, Margarita, Carolina, Josefa, Raphada, Michada, Ignatia Aurelia; Herzog Robert of Parma; Duchess Maria Antonia of Parma). In:  Wiener Zeitung , July 20, 1899, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).

Web links

• Sound recording by Leopold Salvator from Austria-Tuscany in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library