He continued to believe in his right to the throne and opposed the Nazi Anschluss of Austria in 1938. Otto von Habsburg attended the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and graduated in 1935. When his father Charles died in Madeira in 1922, Otto von Habsburg became head of the House of Habsburg, aged nine. Austria dispossessed the Habsburgs in 1919, but they were allowed to keep their personal fortunes. His great-uncle was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and according to genealogists, his ancestry could be traced back to the sixth century.įollowing the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, the family went into exile and later moved to France and Belgium.
His father, Charles, was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary his mother was Zita of Bourbon-Parma. He was born at Reichenau an der Rax, Lower Austria, in November 1912.
FRANZ JOSEPH HABSBURG FULL
Otto von Habsburg’s full name is Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg. His heart was taken to Hungary and buried a day later in the Benedictine Pannonhalma Archabbey in accordance with the Habsburg tradition. His funeral took place on Saturday July 17th in Vienna, where his body was interred in the Imperial Crypt alongside his wife, the German Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen who died in February 2010. Otto von Habsburg, the last heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, died on July 4th at his home in Pöcking, Bavaria, aged 98.
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