Mitsuko Aoyama

Mitsuko Maria Thekla Coudenhove- Kalergi (* July 7, 1874 in Tokyo, † August 27, 1941 in Vienna) was wife of the Austro- Hungarian diplomat Count Heinrich von Coudenhove- Kalergi and mother of Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove -Kalergi.

Life

Mitsuko Coudenhove- Kalergi, born Aoyama (青山) was, in 1874 as a daughter of an antiques and oil dealer in Ushigome (today: Shinjuku, Tokyo) was born. At the age of 17, she learned the Austro- Hungarian Minister Heinrich Coudenhove- Kalergi know. The two married with the consent of the Austrian and Japanese Ministries of Foreign Affairs on 16 March 1892 in Tokyo. The claim that she had been so violated and disinherited by her father, is not the reality, because they would not get married without her father's consent can. Two sons were born in Japan.

1895 Henry finished his work as an envoy, returned with his wife returned to Europe and took over the family estates in the Bohemian Ronsperg. There are five more children were born.

1906 Henry died Coudenhove- Kalergi and Mitsuko took over the management of the family estates in West Bohemia and the education of children. In 1908 the family moved to Vienna when the sons of the Theresianumgasse visited. 1911-1915 was Maria Thekla C.-K. in Lehmann 's general housing indicator for Vienna 13 at the address Maxingstraße 12 ( next to the park of Schönbrunn Palace, the imperial residence ), registered.

In 1924 she moved to Mödling. In 1925 she suffered a mild stroke. They then left the house only rarely, in which she finally died in 1941. Her grave is at the Hietzing Cemetery (Group 13, Number 69).

Children and descendants

  • Johann Evangelist Virgilio Coudenhove -Kalergi (1893-1965), also Kotaro (光 太郎), called - he was married to the first female pilot of Austria, with Lilly Steinschneider.
  • Called Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove -Kalergi (1894-1972), also Eijiro (栄 次郎)
  • Gerolf Benedict Joseph Maria Franz Valentin Coudenhove- Kalergi (1896-1978), the father of journalist Barbara Coudenhove- Kalergi was a translator of haiku verses and official at the Japanese embassy in Prague.
  • Elisabeth Maria Anna Coudenhove- Kalergi (1898-1936) was secretary and research assistant of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
  • Olga Marietta Henriette Maria Coudenhove- Kalergi (1900-1976)
  • Ida Friederike Gorres Maria Anna (1901-1971)
  • Karl Heinrich Franz Maria Coudenhove- Kalergi (1903-1987) was an opera singer.

Afterlife

Mitsuko in Japan is a very popular person, the movies and a musical were dedicated.

Secondary literature

  • Julia Krejsa (actually: Susanne Krejsa MacManus ), Peter Pantzer: Japanese Vienna. Herold- Verlag ( 1989). ISBN 3,700,803,842th The book is also available in Japanese language before ( Simul Press, Tokyo, ISBN 4377408372 ).
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