Lex Schwarzenberg
Law 143/1947 passed on July 10, 1947 by the Czechoslovak Parliament is referred to as Lex Schwarzenberg . It legalized the expropriation of the holdings of the Primogenitur of the House of Schwarzenberg in Czechoslovakia.
background
The first, relatively insignificant Schwarzenberg possessions go back to the 15th century. The Schwarzenberg family owned lands, ponds, industry, real estate, collections and archives in what would later become Czechoslovakia since the 17th century. Although the family also had estates in Franconia and Austria , their economic and social center was clearly the Kingdom of Bohemia for almost 300 years, and the Czechoslovak Republic since 1918. During this time, the family's activities contributed significantly to the economic (for example, through the construction of the Schwarzenberg alluvial canal ), social and cultural advancement of South Bohemia.
The last legitimate owner of the Schwarzenberg Primogeniture properties in what was then Czechoslovakia was Adolph Schwarzenberg . Since he was an uncompromising opponent of the Hitler regime, all of his property, which was located in the so-called Reich territory, was expropriated by the Gestapo in 1940 on Heinrich Himmler's personal orders . Adolph Schwarzenberg fled to the USA with his wife Hilda, née Luxembourg . His adoptive son and chief representative Heinrich Schwarzenberg, however, was arrested and imprisoned in various prisons and in the Buchenwald concentration camp .
From the end of the 18th century , two lines of the House of Schwarzenberg, called the formed first primogeniture (also primogeniture called) with the princes Joseph II. As the first Heir , and the Second primogeniture (also Sekundogenitur ) his younger brother Charles I Philip , who 1804 also received a hereditary prince title. Since Heinrich's Primogenitur line had no male descendants, Heinrich adopted the heir to the Secondogenitur, Karel Schwarzenberg , which reunited the two majorates in 1979.
application
As an opponent of National Socialism and a Czech citizen, Adolf Schwarzenberg did not inferior to the Beneš decrees . The properties of the Primogenitur line were expropriated by a law specially enacted in 1947, the Lex Schwarzenberg , and became the property of the State of Bohemia. The possessions of the secondary school were not expropriated.
Web links
- Original text of Law 143/1947 (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.restitution.cz/de/majetek
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.restitution.cz/de/dokumenty/dopisy/id/77
- ↑ Heike Vowinkel: Bohemian inheritance dispute. In: welt.de . October 4, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 .
