Raphael Rainer von Thurn and Taxis

Raphael Rainer Karl Maria Joseph Antonius Ignatius Hubertus Lamoral Prince of Thurn and Taxis (born May 30, 1906 in Regensburg , † June 8, 1993 in Schwangau ) was president of EV Füssen for many years, during its most successful period, and for a long time as a councilor and church caretaker of the community of Schwangau. He came from the Thurn und Taxis family .

Life

Raphael Rainer was the sixth son of Prince Albert I of Thurn and Taxis (1867–1952) and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870–1955), a daughter of Archduke Joseph Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833–1905) and his wife Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846–1927). He had six brothers and a sister. One of his brothers was Max Emanuel Prince von Thurn und Taxis (1902-1994), who became a member of the Benedictine order as Father Emmeram .

Raphael Rainer did not fulfill any key political and military functions under National Socialism , but in contrast to his father or his siblings he was associated with the National Socialist movement.

Like all members of the House of Thurn and Taxis at the age of 18, Raphael Rainer also received the Order De Parfaite , donated by Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn and Taxis (1704–1773) as a merit and house order, which since 1806 has only been awarded as a house order Amitié .

In 1928 he got to know his relative Eulalia von Thurn and Taxis - the daughter of Friedrich von Thurn and Taxis (1871–1945) and Eleonora de Ligne (1877–1959) - who soon became his fiancée. When the wedding date approached in February 1929 and the preparations were well advanced, Eulalia withdrew. She informed Raphael Rainer's father, Albert, that she loves someone else and, according to her own conscience, must not allow marriage. Albert took up talks with Friedrich, Eulalia's father, and with members of his own princely family branch. It was finally agreed that the wedding would not take place.

The broken marriage was also reported in the American press.

Bullachberg Castle

Raphael von Thurn und Taxis bought Bullachberg Castle . His grandson Philipp explained in 2012: “My grandfather Rafael was provided with the purchase of Bullachberg Castle in 1926, so to speak. He lived here until his death in 1996. ”He lived here with his family until his death in 1996. The castle has been empty since then, but is not open to the public. Thurn und Taxis loved to hunt. He took part in many company hunts. In 1964, at his suggestion, the Füssen district group of wind groups of the Bavarian Hunting Association was founded, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014.

In 1954/55 Raphael von Thurn und Taxis became 1st President of the EV Füssen ice hockey club and donated the Thurn and Taxis Cup, which was played from 1955 as the successor to the Leinweber Cup. The first winner of the Thurn and Taxis Cup was SC Riessersee in 1955 . The EV Füssen was around 1965 as the most important German ice hockey club. During this most successful period of the Füssen ice hockey club, Raphael von Thurn und Taxis was its long-time president. The first three-time winner of the Thurn and Taxis Cup in 1964, 1966 and 1969 was the ZKL Brno . At the end of the 1970s, the trophy was stopped. However, in 2006, the year in which Thurn und Taxis would have celebrated its 100th birthday, the Thurn und Taxis Memorial Cup was played.

Raphael von Thurn und Taxis was a member of the CSU and was involved as a councilor for Schwangau, the village of the royal castles, from 1952 to 1990. He also belonged to the district council in what was then the district of Füssen for four electoral terms and, after the regional reform in 1972, to the district council in the new Ostallgäu district for six years . In addition to local politics, he also worked in the parish: Raphael Prince von Thurn und Taxis was a church clerk in Schwangau-Waltenhofen for almost 30 years.

Marriage and offspring

On May 24, 1932, Raphael Rainer married Margarete von Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg (born October 19, 1913 in Berlin ; † June 16, 1997 in Füssen ). Raphael Rainer and his wife Margarete have only one child, a son, Max Emanuel Prinz von Thurn und Taxis, who was born on September 7, 1935 in Bullachberg Castle .

ancestors

Pedigree of Raphael Rainer von Thurn and Taxis (1906–1993)
Great grandparents	Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn and Taxis (1802–1871) ⚭ 1828 women Wilhelmine von Dörnberg (1803–1835)		Duke Max Joseph in Bavaria (1808–1888) ⚭ 1828 Duchess Ludovika Wilhelmine of Bavaria (1808–1892)		Archduke Joseph Anton Johann of Austria (1776–1847) ⚭ 1819 Archduchess Maria Dorothea of ​​Württemberg (1797–1855)		Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1881) ⚭ 1843 Princess Clementine d'Orléans (1817–1907)
Grandparents	Prince Maximilian Anton von Thurn und Taxis (1831–1867) ⚭ 1858 Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834–1890)				Archduke Joseph Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833–1905) ⚭ 1864 Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846–1927)
parents	Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (1867–1952) ⚭ 1890 Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870–1955)
Prince Raphael Rainer von Thurn and Taxis (1906–1993)

literature

• Martin Dallmeier, Martha Schad : The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis. 300 years of history in pictures . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7917-1492-9 .
• Johann Baptist Mehler : The princely house of Thurn and Taxis in Regensburg. For the 150th anniversary of the Residenz . Regensburg 1899.
• Wolfgang Behringer : Thurn and Taxis. The history of your post office and your company . Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-492-03336-9 .
• Fabian Fiederer: "... hold on to all old traditions". The living environment and self-image of the high nobility using the example of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in the time of Prince Albert I (1888–1952). (= Thurn and Taxis Studies, New Series , No. 5.) Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-2795-0 .
• Ice Hockey. Hallelujah in the stadium . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1966, pp. 97 ( Online - Feb. 14, 1966 ).

Web links

• The story of Daisy and Toni
• Postcard with a picture of Raphael Rainer von Thurn und Taxis
• Postcard with a picture of the couple Raphael Rainer and Margarete von Thurn und Taxis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zeit Archiv online: Die Zeit , 1995, issue 02: When money goes on ice page 3/3 (accessed on June 12, 2014)
2. ↑ Dallmeier, Schad: The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis.
3. ^ Jonathan Petropoulos: Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hessen in Nazi Germany . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-516133-5 , p. 111 ( limited preview in Google book search).
4. ↑ Princess Prefers Ex-Fiance's Brother , The New York Times , Regensburg, Bavaria, 2 February 1929
5. ^ Princess Illa Calls Off Wedding at Last Minute : The Washington Post, February 1, 1929
6. ^ Rhein-Zeitung on January 3, 2012: Related to Glanz und Gloria (9)
7. ↑ The aristocracy was hunting wild boar
8. ↑ 81 black smocks stayed on the Princely Route
9. ↑ Homepage of the district group Füssen e. V. of the wind groups of the Bavarian Hunting Association (accessed on June 12, 2014)
10. ↑ ICE HOCKEY: Let me go . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1986 ( online ).
11. ↑ ^{a b} Ice Hockey Lexicon online: Table Tip-in ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2014 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. (accessed on June 12, 2014) 
12. ↑ National team: nail up the goal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1965, p. 88-89 ( Online - Mar. 24, 1965 ).
13. ↑ Ice hockey info from August 20, 2006: Oberliga: EV Füssen: Torfestival in the duel of the old masters-leopards defeat the SC Riessersee almost double-digit (accessed on June 12, 2014)
14. ^ Personal details : Walter Stanner . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1970, pp. 140 ( Online - June 29, 1970 ).