Countess Georgina von Wilczek
Countess Georgina von Wilczek ( Georgina Norberta Antonie Marie Raphaela Johanna Franziska, called Gina, born October 24, 1921 in Graz, † October 18, 1989 in Grabs ) was Princess of Liechtenstein.
Life
She was the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Wilczek and Countess Norbertine Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau and was born in Graz in Austria. Her great-grandfather was Count Johann Nepomuk von Wilczek (1837-1922), an Austrian polar explorer and patron of the arts.
In 1942, she became engaged to Prince Franz Josef II on March 5, 1943, she was received at the station of Schaan, two days later, on March 7, the marriage took place by Bishop Christian Caminada of Churchill, it was the first wedding of Liechtenstein history, which took place on the territory of modern principality.
During the Second World War, the princess sat very one who had fled for forced laborers and prisoners of war and founded on 22 June 1945, the Liechtenstein Red Cross, of which she was president from 1945 to 1984, before she gave this function to her daughter.
The couple had five children together:
- Prince Hans Adam II ( b. 1945 )
- Prince Philip Erasmus ( b. 1946 )
- Prince Nikolaus Ferdinand ( b. 1947 )
- Princess Nora (* 1950)
- Prince Franz Josef Wenzel ( * 1962, † 1991)
Her son Hans Adam married Marie Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, a relative of her mother.
Princess Georgina died on 18 October 1989 at the hospital in Grabs in Switzerland after a long battle with cancer, less than a month before her husband.
Franz Joseph II and his wife Gina were both members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem in the rank of Grand Cross Knight or a Dame Grand Cross.
Tomb
46 years were Princess Gina and Prince Franz Josef II married, then died Princess Gina on October 18, 1989 Princess Gina had once said. " My husband and I have become one, everyone believes to be without the other can not be ". So she was right. Only 26 days later, on 13 November 1989, Prince Franz Joseph II died in hospital Grabs. Prince Franz Josef II and Princess Gina found their final resting place in 1960 completed Princely tomb at the Catholic parish church of St. Florin in Vaduz. The graves are only once a year on All Saints' Day, on November 1 of each year (each 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ) to the public.