Maya Felicitas Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau

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Maya Felicitas Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau (born August 15, 1958 in Berlin-Steglitz ; † January 27, 2019 in Munich ) was a German public figure. She was also known as Maya von Schönburg or Maya Flick .

Life

Maria Felicitas Alexandra Albertina Assunta Anna Fernanda Beatrix - Maya von Schönburg for short - was the daughter of Joachim Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau and his first wife Beatrix Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsövidék (* 1930). She had three siblings, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis , Carl Alban von Schönburg (* 1966) and Alexander Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau , as well as a half-sister.

Her father was a journalist and worked as a foreign correspondent for a radio station. On behalf of the Foreign Office , the family moved to Africa, first to Togo and later to Somalia . In Africa, Maya attended Benedictine schools with her younger sister Gloria , including an Italian mission school in Mogadishu . In 1970 the family returned to the Federal Republic of Germany. Maya completed her law studies at the University of Bonn with the first state examination and was Elisabeth von Werthern's favorite to succeed him in the management of the German Parliamentary Society in Bonn.

Maya von Schönburg was married to the major entrepreneur Friedrich Christian Flick from 1985 to 1993 . The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter (* 1986 Alexander, * 1988 Moritz, * 1989 Pilar), from the later relationship with Stephan Hipp another daughter, * 2004 Carlotta. She lived in England until 2011, then moved to Italy, where she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2012. She died in 2019 in her mother's house in Munich and was buried at her own request on February 2 (Mariä Lichtmess), because her name is Maria, in the Munich North Cemetery. She had also chosen the grave site herself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert u. a .: German princely houses. New shine on old crowns . Econ, 2000, ISBN 3-430-18276-X , p. 52.
  2. ↑ Miroslav Marek (genealogy.eu): The Schönburg family , as of August 2004.
  3. ↑ Miroslav Marek (genealogy.eu): The Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék family , as of August 2009.
  4. ↑ Gloria Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  5. ↑ Maja Flick (60): Cancer drama about Gloria's sister ; accessed on January 31, 2019
  6. ↑ Ehrenkrook, Hans Friedrich von; Franke, Christoph; Hueck, Walter von; German Aristocratic Archives; Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv: Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Princely Houses; . tape 149 . Starke, Glücksburg / Ostsee 2011, ISBN 978-3-7980-0849-6 .
  7. ↑ Mourning for Gloria's sister Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau. January 28, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schönburg-Glauchau, Maya Felicitas Countess of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönburg, Maya von; Flick, Maya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German public figure
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Steglitz
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2019
Place of death Munich