Georg von Habsburg

Diplomat

Birthday December 16, 1964

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Starnberg, Bavaria, West Germany

Age 59 years old

Nationality Germany

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1961

His father, heir of Charles I and IV, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary, renounced all claims to the Austrian throne in 1961.

Georg von Habsburg was raised at his parents' home in exile, Villa Austria in Pöcking, Bavaria.

1964

Georg von Habsburg (born 16 December 1964) is a German-born Hungarian diplomat.

He is referred to in Austria as Georg Habsburg-Lothringen, in Hungary as Habsburg György, and in some international media by his courtesy title Archduke Georg of Austria.

Born in Germany as Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus, he is the second son (and seventh and youngest child) of Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Regina Prinzessin von Sachsen-Meiningen.

1972

He married Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg (born 22 August 1972 in Bad Segeberg), the elder daughter of Duke Johann of Oldenburg (younger son of Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and his wife Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont) and Countess Ilka of Ortenburg, on 18 October 1997 in Budapest, Hungary, contracting, unlike his elder brother Karl in 1993, a dynastic marriage according to the former Habsburg house laws.

His wife remained Lutheran.

The couple have three children:

Georg and his family live near the village of Sóskút, in Pest County in Hungary.

Their eldest child was the first Habsburg to be born in Hungary in more than fifty years.

While Georg is a Roman Catholic, Eilika has chosen to remain a Lutheran.

1996

Georg was the President of Red Cross in Hungary, having been named Hungary's Ambassador extraordinary to the European Parliament in 1996.

2020

In December 2020 he was named as Hungary's Ambassador to France.