Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi

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Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi

Mitsuko Maria Thekla Coudenhove-Kalergi (* July 7, 1874 in Tokyo , † August 27, 1941 in Mödling ) was the wife of the Austro-Hungarian diplomat Heinrich Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi and mother a. a. by Richard Nikolaus , Gerolf Coudenhove-Kalergi and the writer Ida Friederike Görres .

Life

Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi

Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi, b. Aoyama ( 青山 ), was born in 1874 as the daughter of an antique and oil dealer from the Aoyama house in Ushigome (today: Shinjuku , Tokyo ). At the age of 17, she met the Austro-Hungarian chargé d'affaires in Japan Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi know. Mitsuko was baptized a Catholic in Japan and was given the first name Maria Thekla. Then, with the consent of the Austro-Hungarian and Japanese Foreign Ministries, the two married on March 16, 1892 in the residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tokyo. The claim that because of this she was cast out and disinherited by her father does not correspond to the facts, since she could not have married without her father's consent. She gave birth to two sons, Hans and Richard, in Japan.

Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi had no intention of returning to Europe and had therefore prepared his younger brother Hans to take over the inheritance in the Bohemian Ronsperg . When his father Franz Karl Coudenhove died in 1893, however, it turned out that he had not bequeathed his inheritance to Heinrich, but to the eldest son of my eldest son . As his guardian, Heinrich felt obliged to quit diplomatic service and return to the Bohemian family estates. Mitsuko came with him. There she gave birth to five other children.

After the death of Heinrich Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1906, Mitsuko took over the management of the family estates in West Bohemia and the upbringing of the children, but moved from Ronsperg Castle to the nearby Stockau monastery . Her sons attended the Theresianum in Vienna, the daughters the Mary-Ward School in St. Pölten . The children spent their holidays in Stockau until at least 1922. At the same time, from 1911 to 1915, Maria Thekla Coudenhove-Kalergi was also registered in Lehmann's general housing advertisement for Vienna at 13 , Maxingstrasse 12 (next to the park of Schönbrunn Palace , the imperial residence).

Parte of Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi
Grave of Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi in the Hietzinger Friedhof

In 1924 she moved to Mödling . In 1925 she suffered a minor stroke. She then rarely left the house, where she finally died in 1941. Her grave is in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 13, number 69).

Children and offspring

Afterlife

Mitsuko is an extremely popular person in Japan who has been dedicated to films and a musical. She plays a leading role in Bernhard Setzwein's historical novel The Bohemian Samurai (2017) about the Coudenhove-Kalergi family.

literature

  • Julia Krejsa (actually: Susanne Krejsa MacManus), Peter Pantzer : Japanese Vienna . Herold-Verlag, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3700803842 . The book is also available in Japanese (Simul Press, Tokyo, ISBN 4377408372 ).
  • Masumi Schmidt-Muraki: The Countess came from Tokyo- The life of Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi , Pilum Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-902960-57-3

Web links

Commons : Mitsuko Coudenhove  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Countess Mitsuko (Maria Thekla) Coudenhove-Kalergi ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Stadtmuseum Mödling, accessed on November 25, 2009
  2. Manfred Wagner: European cultural history: lived, thought, conveyed. 2009, p. 160.
  3. Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi : Home is everywhere. Memories. Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05601-5 , p. 55 ff.
  4. a b c d Closer to the Fujiyama ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.2 MB), p. 17 from 2009, accessed on January 29, 2013
  5. Our home district Bischofteinitz , Furth im Wald 1967
  6. ^ Ronsperg: A book of memory. Furth in the forest 1970
  7. Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi: Soy sauce on the grave. The press of July 25, 2008.