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Karl von Habsburg Biography

Karl von Habsburg is one of the most popular and richest Austrian Politician who was born on January 11, 1961 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. Habsburg stated in an interview about his private living in 21st-century America “If you don’t deliver results, you won’t get any further. There are no inherited laurels to rest on. And I don’t see anyone in my family who has a problem with that.” Concerning the profession of racing Ferdinand, his son Ferdinand: “I’m pretty relaxed now. When I think about how often I took him to the hospital with broken bones after a kart race!”

Karl von Habsburg (Karl Thomas Robert Franziskus Georg, aka Bahnam born on 11 January 1961) is also called Karl of Austria and also known by his ancestral titles of Archduke of Austria and the Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, is an Austrian politician who is currently the chief of the House of Habsburg respectively House of Habsburg-Lorraine which was the name of the land that were part of the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Empire of Austria and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Kingdom of Hungary as well as the Crown territories from Bohemia and Croatia by hereditary right up to the conclusion in World War I.

Karl von Habsburg studied law, political science and philosophy from 1982 at the University of Salzburg and received a scholarship in 1984 for further studies at Michigan State University. He received later an LLM and MBA degree from IMADEC University in Vienna in 2012. Habsburg has been giving lectures on many topics such as European unification, legal philosophy, political and historical developments in Europe and security issues. He speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

Since 1986, Karl von Habsburg has been president of the Austrian branch of the Paneuropean Union, which co-organised the Pan-European Picnic (- an important event during the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Revolutions of 1989). Under his responsibility, the opposition and freedom movements in Central and Eastern Europe were supported and he participated extensively in political events in what was then Czechoslovakia, Hungary, then Yugoslavia and the Baltic States.

He was born in Starnberg, Germany, in 1961, he was the grandson of the Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen and the grandchild of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Charles I. He is the head and head of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece. Habsburg was a member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People’s Party 1996-1999. He is regarded as a Pro-European and a defender of an Pan-European movement.

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In 1992/1993, he hosted a TV game show with Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF, called Who Is Who. In October 1996, he was elected to the European Parliament for the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). Two years later, it emerged that the ÖVP’s election campaign had benefitted from at least 30,000 Mark of World Vision donation money via Paneurope Austria while Karl von Habsburg sat on the board of World Vision Austria, apparently without noticing the director’s dubiously legal activities. His father exacerbated the controversy when he complained that his son was being attacked unfairly and drew a parallel between the name “Habsburg” and a yellow badge. ÖVP did not nominate Karl von Habsburg again for the 1999 elections. In 2004, Karl von Habsburg paid 37,000 euros to the new World Vision Austria branch.

Karl von Habsburg Net Worth

Karl von Habsburg is one of the richest Austrian Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karl von Habsburg's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In response to the requests of USSR who feared rebellion in its oppressed states The anti-Habsburg laws were made legally binding international and constitutional parts in the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. The family attempted to have their previous property returned according to the rules for those who were those who were victims of their Nazi regime. The effort failed due to the fact that the law on expropriation is legally recognized. Habsburg family members Habsburg family played an important part in the demise of the Iron Curtain.

Karl von Habsburg was born 11 January 1961 at Starnberg, Bavaria. He was baptized at Pocking, Bavaria, as Archduke Karl of Austria (Erzherzog Karl von Osterreich) The name was recorded in the baptismal registers. At the time of his birth his father was stateless and had the Spanish diplomat’s passport (he had been raised in Spain) and his mother was also a German citizen. As his siblings and father He was exiled from Austria during the early years during his childhood. But the administrative court in Austria decided that his application to be allowed to return to Austria was lawful and the relatives were granted visa entry in June of 1966.

Karl von Habsburg did his military service in 1981 as a Platoon commander of an Jäger (infantry) Platoon as a one-year volunteer with the Austrian Armed Forces, where he later also completed his pilot training and is currently the reserve Hauptmann (captain) in the Austrian Air Force. He is also an Austrian Army Cultural Property Protection Officer, first with the staff of the Military Command of Salzburg, later with the Armed Forces High Command, currently with IHSW at Staff College. As a paratrooper, he was elected President of the European Military Paratroopers Association (Europäischen Militär- Fallschirmsprungverbandes e.V.) in 2001 – a role that he still holds today.

Habsburg has lived in Salzburg, Austria, since 1981, and resides in Casa Austria, formerly called Villa Swoboda, in Anif, near the city of Salzburg. On 31 January 1993 in Mariazell, he married Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 7 June 1958 in Lausanne), the only daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon, a European industrialist, and his third wife, the fashion model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter. The marriage received the dynastic authorization of Karl’s father, as head of the House of Habsburg, despite objections from some members of the family inasmuch as the bride, although a baroness in the nobility of pre-republican Hungary and Transylvania, did not descend in the canonically legitimate male line from a family of dynastic (ruling or formerly ruling or mediatised) status, as does his younger brother Georg’s wife.

In July 1998 an Austrian court fined Karl von Habsburg 180,000 schillings ($14,300); he had failed to declare immediately to customs officials that he had an antique diadem in his luggage when he crossed the border from Switzerland in July 1996. The diadem belonged to his wife who intended to wear it at a wedding ceremony. After 10 years of marriage, the couple separated in 2003.

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In May 1990, Habsburg personally led an aid convoy to Vilnius with food, medicine and clothing as a representative of the Paneuropean Union, in response to the Soviet Union’s blockade of raw materials following the proclamation of Lithuanian independence in March 1990. In 1991 he organized international aid against the destruction in Dubrovnik and in the former Yugoslavia.

On 19 January 2002, he was appointed Director General of UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) by the UNPO Steering Committee.

Who is Karl von Habsburg Dating?

According to our records, Karl von Habsburg married to Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza . As of December 1, 2023, Karl von Habsburg’s is not dating anyone.

In 1961, his father, Otto von Habsburg, renounced all claims to the Austrian throne, as a necessary legal condition to being allowed to return to Austria. On 30 November 2000, Karl’s father transferred over to him the position of head and sovereign (grand master) of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece. In 2005, Karl von Habsburg filed an unsuccessful lawsuit before Austria’s constitutional court after a failed attempt to have former properties of the Habsburg family returned. The family’s estates had been expropriated by the First Austrian Republic; this had in part been reverted under Austrofascism, and then the Nazis had expropriated them again.

Facts & Trivia

Karl Ranked on the list of most popular Austrian Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Karl von Habsburg celebrates birthday on January 11 of every year.

On 1 January 2007, his father relinquished his position as the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, a status which then devolved on Karl, and in 2008 he became the grand master of an Habsburg-Lorraine Order of St. George.

Does the Habsburg family still exist?

Members of the Habsburg family oversee the Austrian branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Imperial and Royal Order of Saint George. The current head of the family is Karl von Habsburg.

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At the other end of the scale is Charles II, King of Spain from 1665 to 1700, who was determined to be the ‘individual with the highest coefficient of inbreeding’, or the most inbred monarch.

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