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Georg, 6th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen

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Georg Constantin Heinrich Carl Friedrich Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (24 July 1889 – 1 August 1934) was the head of the House of Fugger-Babenhausen from 1925 to 1934.

Early life

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Georg was born on 24 July 1889 in Sopron in the Kingdom of Hungary into the ancient House of Fugger. He was the eldest son of Karl, 5th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen (1861–1925), and Princess Eleonora of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (1864–1945). Among his siblings were Countess Friederike Fugger von Babenhausen (wife of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart),[1] Countess Sylvia Fugger von Babenhausen (wife of Count Friedrich zu Münster, son of Prince Alexander Münster),[2][3] Count Leopold Fugger von Babenhausen (who married Countess Vera Czernin von und zu Chudenitz)[4][a], and Countess Maria Theresia Fugger von Babenhausen (who married Prince Heinrich von Hanau und Horowitz, a grandson of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse).[6][4]

His paternal grandparents were Countess Friederike von Christalnigg-Gillitzstein and Karl Ludwig, 4th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen, who served as First President of the Chamber of Imperial Councillors.[7] His mother was the third child of Prince Carl of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and Princess Rosa Karoline (née Countess von Sternberg). His maternal uncle, Prince Johannes of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein married Archduchess Anna Maria Theresia of Austria (a daughter of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany and sister of Luise, Crown Princess of Saxony).[8]

He grew up in Ödenburg, where his father served as an officer, and from 1895 in Vienna.[9] In 1903, he asked the Emperor to be his confirmation sponsor, to which the Emperor agreed; at the ceremony he was represented by his First Lord Chamberlain, Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein. After the death of his grandfather in 1906, Prince Karl Ludwig, in 1906, his family moved from Vienna to the Fugger Castle in Babenhausen.[10]

Career

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Fugger Castle, 1910

During the First World War, Hereditary Count Georg served in the Life Guards of the Prussian Army (the personal bodyguard of the German Emperor). The Regiment wore a white cuirassier uniform with certain special distinctions in full dress.[11]

Upon his father's death in 1925, he inherited the Fugger-Babenhausen fideicommissum and succeeded to the primogeniture title, 6th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen.[10]

Personal life

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In March 1912, The New York Times reported that Hereditary Count Georg and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, had fallen in love. Due to the Fuggers being Roman Catholic and their difference in rank, the Kaiser had forbidden the marriage and sent his daughter to St. Moritz on a "rest cure".[12] She later married Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick in May 1913, which ended the decades-long feud between the Prussians and the Hanoverians.[13]

Marriage

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On 10 February 1914 in Berlin, then Hereditary Count George married Danish Countess Elisabeth von Plessen (1891–1976), a daughter of Carl Gabriel Joachim Wilhelm Scheel-Plessen of Selsø.[14][6] Together, they were the parents of two children:[15]

Prince Fugger von Babenhausen died at Wellenburg Castle in Augsburg, a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia,[18] on 1 August 1934.[17]

Descendants

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Through his only son Friedrich, he was a grandfather of Herbertus Victor, 8th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen (b. 1946), who married Princess Alexandra of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg, sister to Princess Gabriele Oettingen, both daughters of Alois, 9th Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg and Countess Elisabeth Gabriele of Lynar,[19] in 1977.[20][17]

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Count Leopold Fugger von Babenhausen and Countess Vera Czernin von und zu Chudenitz divorced in 1936, and in 1938 she married the former Chancellor of Austria Kurt Schuschnigg.[5]
  2. ^ Countess Gunilla Bielke (1919–2015), was a member of the Swedish noble family Bielke and her namesake, Gunilla Bielke, was Queen of Sweden as the consort to King John III of Sweden.[16]
Sources
  1. ^ Ogden, Alan (4 November 2021). The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Adrian Carton de Wiart: Soldier and Diplomat. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-350-23314-0. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  2. ^ Korotin, Ilse Erika (2016). BiografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen (in German). Böhlau Verlag. ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  3. ^ Shaw, Christine (2007). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's. p. 576. ISBN 978-1-870520-80-5. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b McNaughton, Arnold (1973). The Book of Kings: The Royal Houses. Garnstone Press. pp. 61, 133. ISBN 978-0-900391-19-4. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  5. ^ Schuschnigg, Kurt von; Schuschnigg, Janet Von (1 January 2012). When Hitler Took Austria: A Memoir of Heroic Faith by the Chancellor's Son. Ignatius Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-58617-709-6. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  6. ^ a b The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. 1914. pp. 674–675. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  7. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der gräflichen Häuser (in German). Justus Perthes. 1889. p. 1189. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Prinzessin Eleonora von Fugger-Babenhausen". 4 October 1864.
  9. ^ Stauber, Anton (1900). Das Haus Fugger (in German). Lampart. p. 247. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  10. ^ a b Fugger (Fürstin), Nora (1932). The Glory of the Habsburgs: The Memoirs of Princess Fugger. Dial Press.
  11. ^ Schulz, Hugo (1992). Die preussischen Kavallerie-Regimenter 1913/1914 nach dem Gesetz vom 3. Juli 1913. Augsburg: Weltbild. pp. 9–11. ISBN 3893503439.
  12. ^ Times, Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York (28 March 1912). "KAISER'S DAUGHTER LOVES COUNT IN VAIN; Princess Is Prostrated When Romance with a Handsome Lieutenant Is Cut Short". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  13. ^ Diplomat, A. Veteran (18 May 1913). "ROYAL MARRIAGE ENDS FAMOUS FEUD BEGUN IN 1866; Wedding of Princess Victoria Louise, Daughter of the Kaiser, to Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Luneburg Next Saturday Heals the Long-standing Hohenzollern-Guelph Enmity -- A Real Love Match". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  14. ^ Herrenhaus, Prussia (Kingdom) Landtag (1911). Handbuch für das preussische Herrenhaus (in German). Heymanns. p. 356. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  15. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der gräflichen Häuser (in German). Justus Perthes. 1917. p. 822. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  16. ^ Matheson-Pollock, Helen; Paul, Joanne; Fletcher, Catherine (16 July 2018). Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe. Springer. p. 85. ISBN 978-3-319-76974-5. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  17. ^ a b c d Montague-Smith, Patrick W. (2003). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. pp. 101–102. ISBN 978-0-333-66093-5. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  18. ^ Dornberg, John (30 June 1985). "AUGSBURG MARKS 20 CENTURIES". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  19. ^ Seligman, Martin E.P. (2014-09-18). Aprenda optimismo: Haga de la vida una experiencia maravillosa. ISBN 9788499087979.
  20. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1973. p. 117. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
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