Georg Constantin Heinrich Carl Friedrich Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (24 July 1889 – 1 August 1934) was the head of the House of Fugger-Babenhausen from 1925 to 1934.

Early life

Georg was born on 24 July 1889 in Sopron in the Kingdom of Hungary into the ancient House of Fugger. He was the eldest son of Karl, 5th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen (1861–1925), and Princess Eleonora of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (1864–1945). Among his siblings were Countess Friederike Fugger von Babenhausen (wife of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart), Countess Sylvia Fugger von Babenhausen (wife of Count Friedrich zu Münster, son of Prince

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), Count Leopold Fugger von Babenhausen (who married Countess Vera Czernin von und zu Chudenitz), and Countess Maria Theresia Fugger von Babenhausen (who married Prince Heinrich von Hanau und Horowitz, a grandson of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse). His paternal grandparents were Countess Friederike von Christalnigg-Gillitzstein and Karl Ludwig, 4th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen, who served as First President of the Chamber of Imperial Councillors. His mother was the third child of Prince Carl of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and Princess Rosa Karoline (née Countess von Sternberg). His maternal uncle, Prince Johannes of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein married Archduchess Anna Maria Theresia of Austria (a daughter of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany and sister of Luise, Crown Princess of Saxony). He grew up in

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, where his father served as an officer, and from 1895 in Vienna. In 1903, he asked the Emperor to be his confirmation sponsor, to which the Emperor agreed; at the ceremony he was represented by his First Lord Chamberlain,

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. After the death of his grandfather in 1906, Prince Karl Ludwig, in 1906, his family moved from Vienna to the Fugger Castle in Babenhausen.

Career

During the First World War, Hereditary Count Georg served in the Life Guards of the

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(the personal

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of the German Emperor). The Regiment wore a white cuirassier uniform with certain special distinctions in full dress. Upon his father's death in 1925, he inherited the Fugger-Babenhausen fideicommissum and succeeded to the

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title, 6th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen.

Personal life

In March 1912, '' The New York Times'' reported that Hereditary Count Georg and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, had fallen in love. Due to the Fuggers being Roman Catholic and their difference in rank, the Kaiser had forbidden the marriage and sent his daughter to

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on a "rest cure". She later married Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick in May 1913, which ended the decades-long feud between the Prussians and the Hanoverians.

Marriage

On 10 February 1914 in Berlin, then Hereditary Count George married Danish Countess Elisabeth von Plessen (1891–1976), a daughter of Carl Gabriel Joachim Wilhelm Scheel-Plessen of

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. Together, they were the parents of two children: * Friedrich Karl Fugger von Babenhausen (1914–1979), who founded Fürst Fugger Privatbank in 1954; he married Countess Gunilla

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, daughter of Count Thure Gabriel Bielke and Brigitta Marianne

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of Söfdeborg, in 1942. * Marie-Louise Fugger von Babenhausen (1916–1993), who married Wilhelm von Hagen in 1940. Prince Fugger von Babenhausen died at Wellenburg Castle in Augsburg, a city in the Bavarian part of

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, on 1 August 1934.

Descendants

Through his only son

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, he was a grandfather of Herbertus Victor, 8th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen (b. 1946), who married Princess Alexandra of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg, sister to Princess

Gabriele Oettingen Princess Gabriele of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg, known professionally as Gabriele Oettingen, (born ''Gabriele Elisabeth Aloisia Notgera Prinzessin zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg''; July 22, 1953 in Munich) is a Ger ...

, both daughters of Alois, 9th Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg and Countess Elisabeth Gabriele of Lynar, in 1977.

References

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Georg Georg may refer to: * Georg (film), ''Georg'' (film), 1997 *Georg (musical), Estonian musical * Georg (given name) * Georg (surname) * , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker See also

* George (disambiguation) {{disambiguation ...