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Hungarian diplomat
Georg von Habsburg
[1] (born 16 December 1964) is a German-born Hungarian diplomat. He is referred to in
Austria as Georg Habsburg-Lothringen ,
[1] in
Hungary as Habsburg György , and in some international media by his
courtesy title
Archduke Georg of Austria .
[2]
Family ties
Born in Germany as Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus , he is the second son (and seventh and youngest child) of
Otto von Habsburg , the last
Crown Prince of
Austria-Hungary , and his wife
Regina Prinzessin von Sachsen-Meiningen . His father, heir of
Charles I and IV , the last monarch of Austria-Hungary, renounced all claims to the Austrian throne in 1961.
[3] Georg von Habsburg was raised at his parents' home in
exile , Villa Austria in
Pöcking ,
Bavaria .
He married
Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg (born 22 August 1972 in
Bad Segeberg ), the elder daughter of Duke Johann of Oldenburg (younger son of
Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg , and his wife
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont ) and Countess Ilka of
Ortenburg , on 18 October 1997 in
Budapest , Hungary, contracting, unlike his elder brother
Karl in 1993, a
dynastic marriage according to the former Habsburg
house laws .
[2] While Georg is a Roman Catholic, Eilika has chosen to remain a Lutheran.
[2] The couple have three children:
Georg and his family live near the village of
Sóskút , in
Pest County in Hungary. Their eldest child was the first Habsburg to be born in Hungary in more than fifty years.
Georg and Otto
Career
Georg was the President of
Red Cross in Hungary, having been named Hungary's
Ambassador extraordinary to the
European Parliament in 1996.
[2]
In December 2020 he was named as
Hungary 's Ambassador to
France .
[4]
Honours and awards
Dynastic
National
Other
Arms
References
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a
b The Habsburgs' titles are not recognised anymore in Austria or in Hungary, where he is referred to as Georg Habsburg-Lothringen, which is his legal name (see
Austrian nobility and
Statute IV of 1947 regarding the abolition of certain titles and ranks (Hungary) ).
^
a
b
c
d de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. ‘'Le Petit Gotha'’. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, pp. 172–176, 201–202 (French)
ISBN
2-9507974-3-1
^ Brook-Shepherd, pg. 181
^ Viktor, Buzna (13 December 2020).
"Habsburg György lesz a következő párizsi nagykövet" . index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 30 March 2024 .
^
"Knights of the Golden Fleece" . www.antiquesatoz.com . Retrieved 29 November 2021 .
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"The Order Government – St. Georgs-Orden" . Retrieved 29 November 2021 .
^ Debrecen, University of.
"University of Debrecen" . edu.unideb.hu . Retrieved 28 January 2022 .
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"Országos Polgárőr Szövetség - Kitüntetések, elismerések kimutatása" . www.opsz.hu . Retrieved 28 January 2022 .
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"Díszpolgárok" . Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (in Hungarian). Retrieved 29 November 2021 .
External links
Georg von Habsburg
Born: 16 December 1964
Austro -
Hungarian royalty
Preceded by
Line of succession to the defunct Austro-Hungarian throne 2nd position
Succeeded by
Generations are numbered by male-line descent from the first archdukes. Later generations are included although Austrian titles of nobility were abolished in 1919.
1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation 4th generation 5th generation 6th generation 7th generation 8th generation 9th generation 11th generation 12th generation 13th generation 14th generation 15th generation 16th generation
Habsburg Tuscany Palatines of Hungary
17th generation
Descent of Charles I Tuscany Palatines
18th generation
19th generation
S: also an infante of Spain
P: also an infante of Portugal
T: also a prince of Tuscany
M: also a prince of Modena
B: also a prince of Belgium