Robert Habsburg-Lothringen

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Robert Habsburg-Lothringen

Robert Habsburg-Lothringen, also Robert von Österreich-Este, (born February 8, 1915 at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna ; † February 7, 1996 in Basel , Switzerland ; born as Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius Johannes Marcus d'Aviano, Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia and Duke d'Este ) was a banker , legitimist functionary and publicist . He was the third child of Emperor Karl I of Austria and Empress Zita .

Life

The children of the imperial couple: Otto, Adelheid, Robert , Felix, Carl Ludwig, Rudolph, Charlotte and Elisabeth (from right to left)
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Robert was the second son of eight children of the last Austrian imperial couple and was born as Archduke of Austria. After the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este was assassinated in 1914, the name Austria-Este passed to his great-nephew Robert. After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy at the end of the First World War , Robert von Österreich-Este lived with his parents in Eckartsau Castle in Lower Austria from November 11, 1918 to March 23, 1919 - before the former imperial family left the country in view of the impending internment of his father . From 1919 to 1921 Robert lived with his parents in exile in Switzerland , later on Madeira and in Spain .

On December 29, 1953, Robert Habsburg married in Bourg-en-Bresse Margherita of Savoyen-Aosta (born April 7, 1930 in Naples ), daughter of Amadeus, 3rd Duke of Aosta and Viceroy of Abyssinia , and his wife Anne Hélène Marie the Elder 'Orleans. The marriage resulted in five children (and sixteen grandchildren):

Robert Habsburg-Lothringen is buried in the Habsburg family crypt in the Loreto Chapel of the Muri Monastery in Switzerland .

literature

  • Archduke Robert , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1966 from June 13, 1966, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • J. Balsano: Les Bourbons de Parme. Biarritz 1966.
  • Hellmut Andics : The women of the Habsburgs. Vienna 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Vocelka: The Habsburg and Habsburg-Lothringen families. Politics, culture, mentality. Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78568-2 , p. 71. ( Side view in Google book search .)
  2. ^ A b Reinhard Müller: Some Austrian refugees in Great Britain. Chapter 1. Writers, Journalists, Translators and Publishers ”, p. 8; Chapter “6. Politicians and Diplomats ”, p. 75. In: Project Austrian literature in exile since 1933. Ed .: University of Salzburg, Institute for German Studies. (Online as PDF ; pp. 8, 75. Retrieved September 9, 2011.)
  3. ↑ See also: Peter Schwarz: Exile without government in exile. ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (1998) In: Documentation archive of Austrian resistance . Retrieved September 9, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Habsburg-Lothringen, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robert Karl Ludwig Maximilian Michael Maria Anton Franz Ferdinand Joseph Otto Hubert Georg Pius Johannes Marcus d'Avianovon of Austria-d'Este (birth name); Habsburg, Robert von; Austria-Este, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian banker, legitimist functionary and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1996
Place of death Basel , Switzerland