Heinrich Thyssen (31 October 1875 – 26 June 1947), after 22 June 1907 Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, was a German-Hungarian
entrepreneur and
art collector.
The couple lived at the castle of
Rohonc until after
World War I and the uprising of
Béla Kun, when they fled and moved to
The Hague in the
Netherlands from whence they directed some of the Thyssen commercial and industrial interests, including the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. In 1926 he had refused to participate in the
Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, founded by his elder brother
Fritz Thyssen, although becoming a board member, but kept his own inherited wealth, including his father's foreign investments and some German companies apart from the Thyssen steelworks, in a separate organization, the August Thyssensche Unternehmungen des In- und Auslandes, GmbH, today Thyssen-Bornemisza Group Holdings N.V. (TBG).
Thyssen divorced his first wife on 17 March 1932 and married Else Zarske, known as Maud (born in
Thorn on 17 April 1909), at
Brussels on 29 August 1932. Maud was maintaining an affair with
Georgian polo player Alexis
Mdivani which was revealed in 1935 following her car accident in which Mdivani died.[2][3] They divorced in 1937 without issue. He married his third wife, Gunhild von Fabrice (born in
Magdeburg on 5 March 1908) in
Berlin on 15 November 1937. He died in
Lugano in 1947.
Margit Gabriella Lujza Freiin Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (
Rechnitz (Rohonc), 21/22 June 1911 –
Lugano-Castagnola, 15 September 1989), "The Killer Countess", married in
Gandria,
Ticino, 17 June 1933 Johann (Iván) Maria Josef Ladislaus Graf Batthyány-Strattmann de Németújvár (
Kittsee (Köpcsény), 21 April 1910 –
Lugano-Castagnola, 16 July 1985), son of
László Batthyány-Strattmann. During the final days of
World War II, on 24 March 1945, she hosted a
party for
SSofficers,
Gestapoleaders,
Nazi Youth, and local collaborators at the Thyssens' castle at
Rechnitz during which 200
Jews were
murdered.[5] They had:
Johann (Iván) Ladislaus Heinrich Maria Graf Batthyány-Strattmann de Német-Ujvar (
Vienna, 16 May 1934 –
Pressbaum, 26 August 1967), unmarried and without issue.
Robert Christof Heinrich Maria Graf Batthyány-Strattmann de Német-Ujvar (
Vienna, 12 July 1935 –), married at
Hamburg, 18 August 1966 Christine Riechert (
Nordhausen, 6 February 1938 –), daughter of Hans Joachim Riechert and wife Elfriede Brodthage, and had:
László Graf von Waldersee (
London, 16 February 2000 –)
Iván Christof Graf Batthyány-Strattmann de Német-Ujvar (
Hamburg, 2 March 1979 –)
Gabriella Vilma Hedvig Mária Freiin Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (
Rechnitz (Rohonc), 20 December 1915 –), married in
Gandria,
Ticino, 1 September 1938 Adolf Willem Carel Baron Bentinck (
Ede, 3 September 1905 –
Paris, 7 March 1970), and had:
Henriette Louise Maria Baronesse Bentinck (
London, 30 January 1949 – 29 November 2010), married firstly at
London, 13 June 1967 and divorced in 1973
Spencer Douglas David Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton (2 April 1946 –) and had issue, married secondly and divorced Richard Thompson, and married thirdly in
Paris, 1 July 1978 Serge Boissevain (
Neuilly, 10 July 1947 – 3 January 2011)
Carel Johannes Baron Bentinck (1957 –), married firstly and divorced in 1996
Nora Picciotto, without issue, and married secondly and divorced Lisa Hogan, and had issue.