Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Friedrich Franz Augustin Maria, Prince zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, was born on 15 February 1879 in Budapest and died on 24 May 1958 in Curitiba, Brazil. He was an Austrian prince and soldier who worked as a military attaché in Saint Petersburg and, during World War I, led German propaganda and espionage efforts in Switzerland. He also served with his regiment on the Russian front.
He married twice. In May 1914 he wed Stephany Julienne Richter, a commoner who became a princess by marriage. They had a son, Franz Josef von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst; some accounts say the boy’s father was Archduke Franz Salvator, but the family acknowledged him. Friedrich Franz and Stephany divorced on 20 July 1920. Later that year he married Countess Emanuela Batthyány von Német-Ujvár of Hungary. They had no children.
The family moved to Brazil around the end of World War II, where Friedrich Franz spent the rest of his life and died in 1958.
His former wife, Stephanie, continued to use the title Princess Stephanie after the divorce and was suspected of spying for Germany in the 1930s. MI5 and FBI files released in 2005 support some of these claims. She lived in London, then the United States, and was arrested in 1941 as an enemy alien and interned until 1945. She died in 1972 in Geneva.
Friedrich Franz came from the noble Hohenlohe family. His father was Chlodwig Karl Joseph Maria Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and his mother was Maria Franziska Esterházy von Galántha. He had four siblings; his elder brother Nikolaus Moritz Aloys Hubertus Maria was the head of the family. He and his second wife had no children.
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