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Edmund Leopold Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg (18 November 1803, in Vienna – 17 November 1873, in Orlík Castle) was the last created Austrian field marshal of the 19th century.
Edmund Prince of Schwarzenberg 18 November 1803 – 17 November 1873 Field marshal - Last Austrian field marshal in the 19th century Friedrich Prince of Schwarzenberg 6 April 1809 – 27 March 1885 Cardinal Archbishop Primas Germaniae Prince of the Church - Cardinal and Archbishop of Salzburg, then Archbishop of Prague: Felix Prince ...
- Joseph II, 6th Prince of Schwarzenberg
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- Background, Education and Personal Life
- Exile, Human-Rights Activism and Career in Austrian Politics
- Career in Czech Politics
- Illness and Death
- Political Positions
- Titles, Names and Awards
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The House of Schwarzenberg originates in Franconia, where the family still owns substantial property,[citation needed] but made Bohemia their primary seat in the 17th century, also maintaining residences in Vienna. The family had possessed fiefdoms in Bohemia as far back as the Middle Ages; it was one of the richest noble families of Bohemia and Au...
In the 1960s, Schwarzenberg was active in the conservative Austrian People's Party and contributed to reforming the party before the 1966 legislative election. Voices inside the party considered him a possible candidate for the position of Foreign Minister of Austria, the position he would occupy in the Czech Republic decades later. Schwarzenberg s...
A long-time friend and close collaborator of Václav Havel, he served for two years as Havel's chancellor (from July 1990 to July 1992) during Havel's tenure as president.
Schwarzenberg was hospitalised in Prague in August 2023 with heart and kidney problems and was later flown to a clinic in Vienna. He died there on 11 November 2023, at the age of 85.
Position on communist crimes
In December 2010, Schwarzenberg, along with the foreign ministers of five other Central and Eastern European EU countries, called upon the European Commission to make "the approval, denial or belittling of communist crimes" an EU-wide criminal offence. Schwarzenberg said that the denial of the crimes of communism is analogous to denying the crimes of Nazism, which in many EU countries is a criminal offense, arguing that "there is a fundamental concern here that totalitariansystems be measured...
Condemnation of the Beneš decrees
In January 2013, while running for President of the Czech Republic, Schwarzenberg stated, referring to the Beneš decrees, that "what we committed in 1945 would today be considered a grave violation of human rights and the Czechoslovak government, along with President Beneš, would have found themselves in The Hague," referring to the International Criminal Court. The decrees led to the expulsion of many Germans and Hungarians from Czechoslovakia by the Czechoslovak government of Edvard Beneš.
Israel
In 2008, Schwarzenberg expressed support for Israel's right to defend itself during the Gaza–Israel conflict.
Titles and names
A member of the high nobility of Bohemia, his full name was Karl Johannes Nepomuk Josef Norbert Friedrich Antonius Wratislaw Mena Fürst zu Schwarzenberg in German and Karel Jan Nepomucký Josef Norbert Bedřich Antonín Vratislav Menas kníže ze Schwarzenberga in Czech. He was generally known as Karl zu Schwarzenbergin German and uses the Czech form of his first name, Karel, in Czech. Karel Schwarzenberg was the 12th Prince of Schwarzenberg, through his adoption by Heinrich Schwarzenberg, the bro...
Awards
1. In 1989, he received together with Lech Wałęsa, later president of Poland, the Council of EuropeHuman Rights Prize. 2. In 1991, he received the Order of the Golden Fleece(Austrian branch). 3. In 2003, he received the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk3rd Class of the Czech Republic. 4. In 2005, he received the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austriain Silver with Sash. 5. In 2008, he received the Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit – Bundesverdienstkreuz– of the Federal Repub...
(in Czech) Official websiteMarek, Miroslav. "Ancestors". genealogy.euweb.cz.(in Czech) Blog- Therese Hardegg
Edmund Leopold Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg (Vienna, 18 November 1803 - Orlík Castle 17 November 1873) was the last created Austrian Field marshal of the 19th century. He was the youngest son of famous Field marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, who won the Battle of Leipzig in...
Edmund, (1803-1873), Prince of Schwarzenberg, Knight of the Golden Fleece. (1824-1904), Prince of Schwarzenberg (Orlík), Knight of the Golden Fleece. Adolf Josef, (1832-1914), Prince of Schwarzenberg (Hluboká) and Duke of Krumau, Knight of the Golden Fleece. Karl IV, (1859-1913), Prince of Schwarzenberg (Orlík), Knight of the Golden Fleece.
15 de dic. de 2023 · Telegraph Obituaries. December 15, 2023 · 4 min read. Prince Karel Schwarzenberg at his marriage to Countess Therese von Hardegg in 1967. Prince Karel Schwarzenberg, who has died aged 85,...
The House of Schwarzenberg is a German ( Franconian) and Czech ( Bohemian) aristocratic family, formerly one of the most prominent European noble houses. The Schwarzenbergs are members of the German and Czech nobility, and they once held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
