Fanny von Starhemberg

Franziska Princess of Starhemberg, also called Fanny Starhemberg, née Countess Franziska von Larisch - Mönnich, ( born October 24, 1875 in Vienna, † April 27, 1943 in Bad Darkau ) was an Austrian politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (CS).

She was from 1920 to 1931 a member of the Federal Council. In addition to party functions she held in Upper Austria numerous honorary positions, such as the presidency of the Catholic Women's Organization and the Women's Aid Society of the Red Cross.

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• About the abolition of the nobility: Michael Hainisch, President from 1920 to 1928, called the official abolition of the nobility " a childish start, if only because you do not hit the ones you had wanted to meet I once talked with the fine as well as. wise Princess Fanny Starhemberg on this point. ' us ', she said, ' makes the abolition of the nobility anything, we remain, with or without the title always the Starhemberg. "