Archduke Felix of Austria
Felix Habsburg-Lothringen ( born May 31, 1916 in Vienna, † 6 September 2011 in San Ángel, Mexico City, born Felix Friedrich August Maria vom Siege Franz Joseph Peter Karl Anton Robert Otto Pius Michael Benedikt Sebastian Ignatius Marcus d' Aviano, Archduke of Austria ) was the fourth child of Emperor Karl I of Austria.
Life
Felix, still born at Schloss Schönbrunn, spent after the abdication of his father in 1918 his childhood in exile in Switzerland, Portugal and the island of Madeira. After the death of Charles in 1922, the family lived in Belgium. At the University of Leuven studied Habsburg-Lothringen law.
In 1937 he returned to Austria, where he attended Theresa Military Academy. After the "Anschluss " of Austria, he fled with two siblings on the Czechoslovakian border.
In 1939, Habsburg- Lorraine with his uncle Felix of Bourbon- Parma broke out just at the World's Fair in New York, when the Second World War. He volunteered for military service, but was not used. At the same time, he began with his eldest brother Otto the agitation for a " free and independent " Austria. He tried in vain to warn President Roosevelt to leave Stalin Central Europe.
In 1952 he married Anna Eugenie Duchess of Arenberg ( 1925-1997 ), with whom he had seven children. He worked as a banker and economic adviser in Mexico. Together with his brother Carl Ludwig Habsburg- Lorraine, he had in vain used for the return of the former Habsburg private assets.
The 1961 output of Otto von Habsburg waiver refused within the family only Carl Ludwig and Felix Habsburg- Lorraine to sign, so they continue being denied entry into Austria. At the funeral Empress Zita 1989, the Government therefore proposed first also, Felix and Carl Ludwig to refuse entry. The entry was them finally allowed, but only for a few hours. It was not until a later, after an illegal entry of his brother and him discharged renunciation of claims to power, was considered by the Austrian Government on 26 March 1996 and the Main Committee of Parliament on 16 April as sufficient " so that the issue of passports, which also for entry into Austria have validity, nothing stands in the way. "
In 2011, he died as the last child of the former imperial couple, in the obituary he is still referred to as " Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Duke of Bar ." The grave of Felix Habsburg- Lothringen is situated in the family vault of the Habsburgs in the Loreto chapel of the monastery of Muri in Switzerland.