Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg
Maximilian "Max" Hohenberg, maiden name Maximilian Karl Franz Michael Hubert Anton Ignatius Joseph Maria Prince of Hohenberg, 1914-1919 Duke of Hohenberg ( born September 29, 1902 Belvedere Palace in Vienna, † January 8, 1962 in Vienna ) was an Austrian aristocrat and head of the House of Hohenberg.
Life
Maximilian was the eldest son of four children of the Austrian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria -Este (1863-1914) and his wife Countess Sophie Chotková, Duchess of Hohenberg ( 1868-1914 ). Through the morganatic marriage of his parents, he and his siblings were excluded from the succession. After the assassination of his parents in 1914, he and his siblings came into the care of his maternal aunt, Henriette Countess Chotková. They were received by Emperor Franz Joseph I. only once. Maximilian received after the death of the parents as firstborn the title of Duke and was head of the House of Hohenberg. The needle lifting law raised in 1919 in Austria, all titles of nobility on; outside of Austria, Maximilian's descendants call but Prince or Princess of Hohenberg.
In 1919 a special act of the new Czechoslovak Republic determined the expulsion of the brothers to Austria. Maximilian visited the Scots School in Vienna. He then studied law. In 1926 he received his doctorate in Graz Dr. jur. In the same year married Maximilian Elisabeth Bona Countess of Waldburg Wolfegg and Waldsee. Professionally, he worked as a lawyer and the possession of the family managed. Like his brother, he appeared as a speaker monarchist and had close contact with Otto von Habsburg.
In 1938, he and his younger brother Ernst ( 1904-1954 ), who had called for the independence of Austria and against connection to the German Empire, taken to the Dachau concentration camp. Both brothers were preferably used for cleaning the latrines. The later Chancellor Leopold Figl reported that the brothers the humiliations endured with cheerful dignity and against the inmates always behaved matey. Maximilian was released in 1940, while Ernst was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and was able to return home until 1943. After his release, Maximilian was assigned to Artstetten a forced residence. In addition, the possession of the family was expropriated.
After the liberation of the people chose him with the consent of the Soviet occupying power to the mayor of Artstetten. He retained twice five years the position. He was also for many years the agent of Otto von Habsburg in asset negotiations between the House of Habsburg and the Austrian Federal Government. These talks said Maximilian in 1958 failed because it became no compromise line. Otto von Habsburg commissioned Hohenberg then to negotiate with the government on the return of the Habsburgs. As the Austrian Constitutional Court precluded this, Maximilian lay down the mandate.
Maximilian died on 8 January 1962 in Vienna at the long-term consequences of maltreatment suffered in a concentration camp and was buried in the crypt under the church of Artstetten in Lower Austria next to his parents.
Marriage and issue
On 16 November 1926 he married in Wolfegg, Württemberg Elisabetha Bona Countess of Waldburg Wolfegg and Waldsee ( 1904-1993 ), a daughter of Prince Maximilian of Waldburg Wolfegg and Waldsee and Sidonie, born Princess of Lobkowicz. The marriage produced six sons were born:
- Franz Ferdinand (1927-1977) ∞ 1956 Princess Élisabeth of Luxembourg ( 1922-2011 ), eldest daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg
- George ( * 1929) ∞ 1960 Eleonore Auersperg - Breunner ( b. 1928 )
- Albrecht ( born 1931 ) ∞ 1962 Countess Leontine Cassis - Faraone (* 1933)
- John (1933-2003) ∞ 1969 Elisabeth Meilinger - Rehrl ( b. 1947 )
- Peter ( b. 1936 ) ∞ 1970 Christine -Maria Meilinger - Rehrl (* 1945)
- Gerhard ( b. 1941 )