Maximilian Egon zu Fürstenberg

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Maximilian Egon Maria Erwin Leo Franziskus Amos Wenzeslaus Hubertus Prince zu Fürstenberg (born March 31, 1896 in Prague , † April 6, 1959 in Donaueschingen ) was a German nobleman.

Life

Maximilian Egon zu Fürstenberg was the son of Prince Max Egon II zu Fürstenberg and Irma Countess von Schönborn-Buchheim . He grew up in Prague , where he attended grammar school and the German university . Entrusted by his father with the administration of the Bohemian family estates, after their sale he moved to Donaueschingen in 1934, where he initially looked after the princely art collections.

In the time of National Socialism he belonged to the NSDAP since June 1, 1934 after the list of those party comrades who are members of princely houses ( membership number 3.454.652, Gau Baden ).

He had four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. The eldest Karl Egon was head of the Fürstenberg family after the death of his father, but left the property in Donaueschingen to his brother Maximilian Egon's family. The youngest brother Friedrich Eduard Prinz zu Fürstenberg fell during the First World War. Maximilian Egon himself was a captain during the war. After the war he dedicated himself to the cultural reconstruction in Baden. He initiated the Donaueschinger Musiktage (probably together with his father), which soon became a center of modern music far beyond Baden. Furthermore, after the end of the war he became chairman of the Association of the Nobility in Baden and, since the end of April 1954, the first chronologically chairman of the newly founded Association of German Nobility Associations (VdDA). In 1945 he was also the second district administrator in what was then the district of Donaueschingen (now the Schwarzwald-Baar district), replacing his predecessor Erwin Trippel. He was married to Wilhelmine Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau (1902–1964). His successor was the son Joachim Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg . His daughter Maria Josepha (1922–2008) married the racing driver and automobile dealer Günther Graf von Hardenberg .

Fürstenberg was an honorary doctor of the University of Freiburg, art collector and promoter of modern music at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. He died at his desk from a stroke.

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 .
• Max Rieple : Obituary in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 77th year 1959, pp. VII – VIII ( digitized version )
• Max Egon Prinz von Fürstenberg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/1959 of May 25, 1959, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Eduard Johne: Dr. h .c. Max Egon Prince zu Fürstenberg - March 31, 1896 to April 6, 1959 [obituary]. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar , Vol. 25/1960, pp. 4–7.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Rutkowski: Letters and documents on the history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Volume 1: The Constitutionally Loyal Large Estate 1880–1899 . Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-51831-3 , p. 27 ff.
2. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 170.
3. ↑ Fürsten zu Fürstenberg ( Memento of the original of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.