Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (
German
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: ''Joachim Heinrich Maria Carl Rudolf Franz Xaver Joseph Antonius Christophorus Hubertus Alfons
Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau''; 4 February 1929 – 29 September 1998) was the nominal successor head of the former mediatised German
Counts of Schönburg-Glauchau until 1945. Dispossessed and expelled from his homeland in 1945, he and his family migrated to the
Rhineland, where he was an author and journalist. After the fall of the
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
, he returned to his homeland, represented the district in the
Bundestag, and served in local government.
Early life
He grew up in the idyllic setting of
Wechselburg () in the
Zwickauer Mulde
The Zwickauer Mulde () is a river in Saxony, Germany. It is the left tributary of the Mulde and in length.
The source of the river is in the Ore Mountains, near Schöneck, in the Vogtlandkreis. It runs northeast to Aue, then northwest to Z ...
river valley, about 25 kilometers north of
Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...
. The Schönburg family had occupied the
Schloss Rochsburg
Rochsburg Castle (german: link=no, Schloss Rochsburg), which was probably founded in the late 12th century, stands on a rock hill spur, spur, surrounded on three sides by the Zwickau Mulde river, above the eponymous town quarter in Lunzenau in Sax ...
there since 1637. His parents were
Count Friedrich Carl von Schönburg-Glauchau, born 26 July 1899 in Wechselburg and died 12 April 1945 in the defence of
Breslau, and Countess Maria Anna
Baworowska von Baworów (1902–1988). He was the second of their eight children.
Career
In 1945, Soviet occupation troops arrested him, expropriated his property, and he and the family were deported, living for a while in
Mainz. He supported his family as a journalist and author. In 1965, he accepted an assignment to
Somalia, where he established a broadcast station, and served as a foreign correspondent. His family lived with him in the
Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...
for five years, and two of his children were born there.
Immediately after
the fall of the Wall in 1990, he returned to his homeland in
Saxony, and from 1990 to 1994, served as a member of the
Bundestag for the representative district, which included the communities of
Glauchau,
Rochlitz,
Hohenstein,
Ernstthal and
Hainichen, in Saxony, for the
Christian Democratic Union. In the so-called
Berlin debate on 20 June 1991, he spoke against the transfer of the capital city status to Berlin.
He is known for his stance on the protection of nature, and, as an author, for his books about hunting. One of his most popular books, the humorous ''Der Jagdgast'' (The Hunt Guest), tells old hunting stories from his homeland. ''Der deutsche Jäger'' (The German Hunter) is a combination of hunting stories and hunting practices.
From 1991 to 1997 he lived in the former family castle of
Rochsburg, and served in the city council of
Lunzenau.
Personal life
Joachim was twice married. He married his first wife,
Countess Beatrix Széchenyi de Sárvár et Felsővidék (1930–2021), on 27 October 1957 in Vienna. She was the great granddaughter of the Hungarian social reformer and national hero,
Count István Széchényi.
[ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels] Before their divorce on 25 April 1986 in Munich, Bavaria, they were the parents of:
*
Maria Felicitas Alexandra Albertina Assunta Anna Fernanda Beatrix von Schönburg-Glauchau (1958–2019), who married
Friedrich Christian Flick
Friedrich Christian Flick (born 19 September 1944), also known as Mick Flick, is a German art collector.
Life
Trained as a lawyer, he is one of the heirs to the Flick family industrial fortune, and the founder of the Friedrich Christian Flick C ...
, in 1985.
*
Mariae Gloria Ferdinanda Joachima Josephine Wilhelmine Huberta von Schönburg-Glauchau (b. 1960), who married
Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, in 1980.
* Carl-Alban (b. 1966), who renounced his succession rights in 1995.
*
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (born August 15, 1969), known professionally as Alexander von Schönburg, is a German journalist and writer. He is, after his older brother Carl's abdication, the current head of the comital branch of the p ...
(b. 1969), a best selling author who married Princess Irina of Hesse, a daughter of Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse, in 1999.
From his second marriage, 18 July 1986, to Ursula
Zwicker (b. 1951), there is one child:
[ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels]
* Anabel Maya-Felicitas (b. 1980).
In 1998, he became very sick, and moved to Passau, in Bavaria, where he died. He is buried in the old cloister Basilika in
Wechselburg, his boyhood home.
Titles
Family members up until 1919 held the title ''
Graf''; Following the
German Revolution of 1918–19
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, the
German nobility as a legally defined class was abolished on August 11, 1919 with the promulgation of the
Weimar Constitution
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, under which all Germans were made equal before the law, and the legal rights and privileges due to all ranks of nobility ceased. Any title, however, held prior to the Weimar Constitution, were permitted to continue merely as part of the family name and heritage, or erased from future name use.
Publications
*''Der Jagdgast,'' München : BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, 2. Aufl.
*''Jagen mit dem "Uhu"'' Mainz : Hoffmann, 1985
*''Hohe Jagd in Zentral- und Südeuropa,'' with Días de los Reyes, Antonio. - Herrsching : Schuler, _381 1983
*''Der deutsche Jäger,'' München, Bern, Wien : BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1979
Citations
External links
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