Leopold of Austria-Tuscany
Leopold of Austria-Tuscany (born January 30, 1897 in Zagreb , Croatia ; † March 14, 1958 in Willimantic , Connecticut , United States ) from the House of Habsburg-Lothringen ( Habsburg-Lothringen-Tuscany line ) was Archduke of Austria.
Life
Leopold Maria Alfons Blanka Karl Anton Beatrix Michael Joseph Peter Ignatz of Austria-Toscana was the second son of Archduke Leopold Salvator (1863-1931) (and thus a descendant of Emperor Leopold II ) and of Blanka von Bourbon (1868-1949), daughter by Carlos María de los Dolores de Borbón (1848–1909), who had been Carlos (VII) pretender to the Spanish throne.
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy at the end of the First World War in 1918, Archduke Leopold of Austria-Tuscany lived with his parents in Frohsdorf in Lower Austria - before the family of the deposed Emperor Karl I left, in view of his father's threatened expulsion from the country . Later he lived with his parents in exile in Switzerland , later in Germany and France .
After the end of the monarchy, he verbally renounced membership of the Habsburg family, tried his hand at the hop trade, and married Dagmar Baronesse von Nicolics-Podrinje (1898–1967) in a marriage that was not in accordance with house law. The later divorced marriage has his only child Maria Gabrielle. In 1931 he got engaged in Paris to Alice Gibson Coburn (1898-1960), who came from a well-known Canadian family.
After his death in 1958 he was the first Habsburg to receive a cremation ; his urn was transferred from the USA to Austria and buried in the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna.
Religious affiliations
- Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1916)
literature
- Brigitte Hamann (ed.): The Habsburgs. A biographical lexicon. 4th, corrected edition. Piper et al., Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-492-03163-3 .
- Bertita Harding: Lost Waltz. A story of exile. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis IN et al. 1944.
- Thomas Mang: Gestapo control center Vienna - My name is Huber. Who was locally responsible for the murder of the Jews of Vienna? (= Series of publications of the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance on resistance, Nazi persecution and post-war aspects. 1). Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7258-0 .
Web links
- Leopold Salvator Habsburg, Archduke, called in to work in the Gestapo
- Spy in the House of Habsburg
- Archduke Leopold Salvator is said to have been a spy for the Third Reich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Austria-Tuscany, Leopold von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Archduke, Prince of Hungary and Prince of Tuscany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zagreb |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1958 |
| Place of death | Willimantic |