Victor III. of Racibórz
Victor III. August Maria Duke of Ratibor, Prince Corvey, Prince of Hohenlohe (born February 2, 1879 in Rauden , † November 11, 1945 in Corvey ) was a German lawyer , farmer and forest manager and 1923-1945 head of the House of Ratibor .
Life
Victor III. was the son of Victor II Amadeus von Ratibor (1847-1923) and Countess Marie von Breunner-Enckevoirth (1856-1929). He trained as a farmer and forester and studied law at the universities in Bonn , Leipzig , Breslau and at the Sorbonne in Paris . He was a royal Prussian government trainee. He also served in the Prussian army and completed military service as a lieutenant . Like his father, he was a member of the Order of Knights of Malta .
After the First World War , he was primarily concerned with the administration of the extensive family estates, which were then the fourth largest in Silesia. The time was difficult at first because there were uprisings and referendums in Upper Silesia . In 1922 the Upper Silesian property was divided. Some villages of the Ratibor district were incorporated into Poland, others that belonged to the Rybnik district remained in Germany and were, including Rauden , attached to the Ratibor district. The Ratibor family not only lost property, but also sales markets in the Upper Silesian industrial area , which now mainly belonged to Poland.
In 1923, after the death of his father, Victor III. Head of the House of Ratibor and the associated family businesses, estates and castles, which included the Rauden Monastery , Corvey Castle including the Princely Library and Grafenegg Castle in Lower Austria .
In 1925, the export of agricultural products was made even more difficult by the German-Polish customs war , overcapacities, rising prices and financial crises. It was not until the Geneva Conventions that the ownership of 2,500 hectares of agricultural land in Poland was finally protected, making it possible to sell the products again in Upper Silesia .
Right at the beginning of the Second World War , on September 18, 1939, Victor's eldest son, Victor IV, died during the attack on Poland . His Panzerkampfwagen IV as well as a Panzerkampfwagen 35 (t) and a Panzerkampfwagen 38 (t) were shot down by a Polish TKS during a tank battle .
At the end of 1944, before the arrival of the Red Army , the most valuable items from Rauden Castle were transported to western Germany. In 1945 the family finally had to leave the country and fled to Corvey. The Silesian possessions with 34,000 hectares of forest fell to Poland.
Marriage and offspring
On November 19, 1910 in Munich , he married Elisabeth zu Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (born October 31, 1886 - October 2, 1976), a daughter of Prince Franz Albrecht zu Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (1847-1916 ). He had the following children with her:
- Marie Agathe Elisabeth Clementine Marguerite Caroline (1911–1971)
- ⚭ 1946 Edmundo Lasalle y Garcia Mayon († 1975)
- Sophie Agathe Marie Charlotte (1912–1981)
- ⚭ 1937 Friedrich Leopold Maria, Count of Praschma (1900–2000)
- Eleonore Marie Amelie Gabriele (1914–1993)
- Viktor Albrecht Johannes Josef Michael Maria (1916–1939), fallen
- Clementine Gabrielle Georgine Benoite Marie (1918-2005)
- ⚭ 1940 Anton Prince von Croÿ (1909–1976)
- ⚭ 1962 Isabella Countess zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim and Dyck (* 1939).
Memberships
- Order of Malta
- Corps Borussia Bonn
- Honorary member of the Hubertia Breslau Hunting Corps .
Pedigree
| Pedigree of Victor III. of Ratibor (1879–1945) | ||||||||
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| Great grandparents |
Franz zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst |
Karl Egon II. Zu Fürstenberg |
August von Breuner-Enckevoirt |
Janos Széchenyi de Sarvar-Felsovidek |
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| Grandparents |
Victor I. von Ratibor |
August Johann von Breunner-Enkevoirth |
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| parents |
Victor II. Amadeus von Ratibor |
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Victor III. of Ratibor (1879–1945) |
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literature
- Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 235 [2] .
- GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 238 [3] .
- Günter Tiggesbäumker: From Schillingsfürst to Corvey and Höxter. On the history of the ducal family Ratibor and Corvey . In: Die Warte, No. 136, 2007, pp. 13-18.
- Günter Tiggesbäumker: The ducal house Ratibor and Corvey. German Princely Houses, Issue 5. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2008.
- Günter Tiggesbäumker: The Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst family in Höxter and Corvey. On the history of the ducal house Ratibor and Corvey . In: Frankenland 60 (1) 2008, pp. 26–34.
- Günter Tiggesbäumker: The ducal house Ratibor and Corvey . 7th expanded edition. Werl: Börde-Verlag, 2012.
- Günter Tiggesbäumker: "EX FLAMMIS ORIOR" - The Hohenlohe House in Corvey, Westphalia. In: Diversity of Franconian History. Commemorative writing for Gerhard Rechter. Yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia 104, 2016. P. 527–551.
- C. Arnold McNaughton: The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy , in 3 volumes (London, UK: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 1, p. 495.
Individual evidence
- ↑ GG angle : Biographical Corp album of Borussia Bonn from 1821 to 1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 238.
- ↑ Günter Tiggesbäumker: The Ducal House Ratibor and Corvey . 7th expanded edition. Werl: Börde-Verlag, 2012, p. 24.
- ^ Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographisches Corpsalbum der Borussia zu Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 171.
- ↑ Source: The fame of the House of Ratibor - Article from the website: Piast Castle in Ratibor.
- ↑ Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. and district group Karlsruhe: The referendum in Upper Silesia 1921: Ratibor [1]
- ↑ Günter Tiggesbäumker: The Ducal House Ratibor and Corvey. German Princely Houses, Volume 5. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2008, pp. 17-19.
- ↑ Website: Zamek Piatowski w Raciborzu (Polish)
- ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Princely Houses , Vol. 1, Glücksburg an der Ostsee 1951, p. 245.
- ^ Genealogical manual of the princely houses , vol. 13, Limburg an der Lahn 1987, p. 226.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ratibor, Victor III. from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Corvey, Victor III. Prince; Hohenlohe, Victor Prince of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and forester |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rauden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1945 |
| Place of death | Corvey |