Georg von Habsburg
Paul Georg Habsburg-Lothringen (Hungarian Habsburg György, in Germany, Hungary and the media also (Paul ) Georg von Habsburg) ( born December 16, 1964 in Starnberg as Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominic Habsburg-Lothringen ) is a manager in the media industry and was from December 16, 1996 served as special Ambassador of Hungary to the EU negotiations.
He stands behind his nephew Ferdinand Zvonimir second succeeding his brother Charles as head of the "House of Habsburg ". According to the historical traditions Georg Habsburg-Lothringen is medially and socially often referred to as Archduke.
Life
Paul Georg Habsburg-Lothringen is the youngest son of Otto and Regina Habsburg-Lothringen (of Habsburg). After graduating from high school in 1984 in Tutzing ( Bavaria ), he studied from 1984 to 1993 law, political science, history and Islamic Studies in Innsbruck, Madrid and Munich. Władysław Bartoszewski described his former student in retrospect as " more right -minded conservative." In addition to his studies, he was the 1987/88 staff at the ZDF Contemporary History and led from 1990 to 1992, a television production company.
Since 1993, Georg Habsburg- Lorraine lives in Sóskút in Budapest, where he took over from 1995 senior positions in television production companies and TV stations. It was the end of 1996 Special Ambassador of Hungary and sat down for 2004, the country has been the European Union. In the 2009 European elections to the European Parliament he was a candidate on the list of Magyar Demokrata Fórum (MDF). The moderate -conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum reached only 5.3 % and with only a mandate but did not fall to Georg Habsburg.
Unlike Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, who refused full membership of Turkey to the EU altogether and a "privileged partnership " preferred insured son Georg Turkey if they met the entry criteria from its estimate in 10 to 15 years, his support. He speaks six languages, including the native language of German and Hungarian.
Family
1995 learned the Catholic in a mountain hike in the Allgaeu the Protestant Eilika Duchess of Oldenburg ( born August 22, 1972 in Bad Segeberg ). The couple got engaged in February 1997 and married on 18 October 1997 in St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest. The couple has three children, Sophia, Ildikó and Karl Konstantin.
" Dream Wedding "
The event was referred to by the media as a " dream wedding " Hungarian President Árpád Göncz and the Prime Minister Gyula Horn participated. Árpád (v.) Klimó sees it in an essay on the Hungarian Vergangenheitsbewältigung a " concrete [ it ] " sign " that in Hungary [ find ] no work-up, but rather an annihilation of the period of 1945-89 instead of" would, where now the " Holy crown of St. Stephen " " now and again how to Horthyzeit the Hungarian national coat of arms [ sheet ] " " and you [ ... ] of a very superficial re-Christianization and Remonarchisierung of state symbols talk " could.
Nationalities and Name
(Paul ) Georg Habsburg-Lothringen is by birth an Austrian citizen. In 1991 he received Hungarian citizenship. The question in an interview to The Budapest Times in March 2009: " Unlike your father, you seem the additional name, borne by ' rare. Why? " He answered with:
"I myself use the, from ' not at all. It also comes in both my passports, the Austrian and Hungarian, not before. Actually I need as a Habsburg no, of '. Who can do anything with Habsburg, can not do anything with a, of '. Again and again I will but addressed by other people with, of Habsburg ' or announced at events like this. Of course, I will not correct people or pranks that of ' away. Finally, there is the historical name. "
Affiliations and honorary positions
- Since 1987: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
- Since December 2004 he has been President of the Hungarian Red Cross.
- Honorary Chairman of the Tüke Foundation.