Graf Carl Ernst Maria Fidel Alfred Anton Fugger von Glött, since 1914: Fürst Fugger von Glött (2 July 1859,

Oberndorf am Lech Oberndorf is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Al ...

– 25 April 1940,

Kirchheim in Schwaben Kirchheim or Kirchheim in Schwaben (English language, engl. ''Kirchheim in Swabia'') is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality and a market town in the district of Unterallgäu in the region of Swabia (Schwaben) in the south-west of Bav ...

) was a member of the noble family of the

Fugger The House of Fugger () is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. ...

. He was a jurist, president of the imperial council of the crown of Bavaria and royal colonel marshal of the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria ( ; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingd ...

. Furthermore, he was Lord of

, Lord of Oberndorf and Count of Kirchberg and Weißenhorn.

Early life

Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött was the oldest of seven children and one of four sons of Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, Lord of Oberndorf and Lord of Kirchheim (1821–1885) and Maria Luise Alexandra, Freiin von

Künsberg The Künsberg family was an old German nobility, German noble family of knights from the Franconian Forest and Upper Franconia. History The Künsberg family took its name from Künsberg near Creußen and was directly related to the House of S ...

(1834–1901). He visited the clerical residential schools in

Metten Metten is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany. The town grew up around the Benedictine Metten Abbey, founded in 766. Metten is also the birthplace of former Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e ...

und Feldkirch/Vorarlberg and studied laws at the universities Munich, Würzburg and Erlangen.

Career

As a jurist he was working in Donauwörth, Passau, Bamberg and Lindau. From 2 October 1891 to 1918 he was as a hereditable (formerly corporative) imperial counselor member of the imperial council ( ger. Reichsrat) of the crown of Bavaria and from 1911 to the end of the

in 1918 president of the imperial council ( ger. Reichsrat) of the crown of Bavaria. Together with count

Georg von Hertling Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then imperial chance ...

and count Maximilian von Soden-Fraunhofen he had a crucial share in the proclamation of Ludwig III to be the king. On 30 December 1913 he was awarded the hereditable rank of a prince ( ger. Fürst) for his merits for the

. As a confident Catholic he had the heraldic motto 'God and Mary'. In 1901 he was awarded for his charitable work by

Pope Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII (; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2March 181020July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the Ap ...

with the grand cross of the

Order of St. Gregory the Great The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (; ) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope. The order is one of the five Papal order of knighthood, orders of knighthood of th ...

. Since 1904 he has been honorary citizen of

because of his charitable and cultural merits, especially for public education. He had also an important role in the implementation of the railway line

Pfaffenhausen Pfaffenhausen is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany. The town is seat of a Municipal association (Germany), municipal association with Breitenbrunn, Swabia, Oberrieden, Bavaria and Salgen. ...

- Kirchheim. On 9 May 1918 he was appointed to be royal colonel marshal of the

. But he could hold this position only until November 1918 because of the end of the monarchy by the November Revolution. From 1922 to 1938 he was supervisory board member of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank, which opposed the Nazi dictatorship. From 1931 to 1938 he had the position of the chairman of the supervisory board of the bank.

Personal life

On 1 November 1891, he married in Moss, near

Lindau Lindau (, ''Lindau am Bodensee''; ; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Lindou'') is a major Town#Germany, town and Lindau (island), island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital ...

, to Countess Elisabeth of Quadt-Wykradt-Isny (1862–1940), the daughter of Count Friedrich von Quadt-Wykradt-Isny. With her he had three children: * Anna Friederike Elisabeth Maria, Countess Fugger von Glött (1893–1962) * Maria Countess Fugger von Glött (1894–1935) *

Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött , since 1940: Fürst Fugger von Glött (26 October 1895, in Kirchheim in Schwaben – 13 May 1981, in Miesbach) was a German politician and representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He was a mem ...

(1895–1981). Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött died on 25 April 1940 in

and is buried there.

Notes/Further reading

Bosl, Karl (Hg.): Bosls Bayerische Biographie: 8000 Persönlichkeiten aus 15 Jahrhunderten. Regensburg 1983; Ergänzungsband 1988.

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