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Karl von Habsburg

March 04, 2023

This article is about the living politician. For other uses, see Archduke Charles of Austria (disambiguation).

Karl von Habsburg (given names: Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam; born 11 January 1961) is an Austrian politician and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, therefore being a claimant to the defunct Austro-Hungarian thrones. As a citizen of the Republic of Austria, his legal name is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen.[1]

Karl von Habsburg
Member of the European Parliament for Austria
In office
1996–1999
Head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Assumed office
1 January 2007
Preceded byOtto von Habsburg
Personal details
Born (1961-01-11) 11 January 1961 (age 62)
Starnberg, Bavaria, West Germany
Political partyAustrian People's Party
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1993; div. 2017)​

Christian Nicolau de Almeida Reid
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(m. 2022)​
ChildrenEleonore von Habsburg
Ferdinand Habsburg
Gloria von Habsburg
Parent(s)Otto, Crown Prince of Austria
Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen

Karl is the son of Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Charles I. He is head and sovereign of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece. Karl von Habsburg served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People's Party (1996–1999). He is known for being Pro-European and is also an advocate for the Pan-European movement.

Karl von Habsburg's career has focused on the issue of protecting cultural heritage from threats such as armed conflict and natural disasters. He was president of the cultural protection organization Blue Shield International from 2008 until August 2020.[2]

Early life

Karl von Habsburg was born on 11 January 1961 in Starnberg, Bavaria. He was baptised in Pöcking, Bavaria, as Archduke Karl of Austria (Erzherzog Karl von Österreich), the name entered in the baptismal records.[3]

At the time of his birth, his father was de facto stateless and possessed a Spanish diplomatic passport (he had grown up in Spain), while his mother was a German citizen. Like his father and siblings, he was banished from Austria for the first years of his life. However, the administrative court of Austria later ruled that applying to return to the country was legal, and his family was granted visa entrance in June 1966.[4]

House of Habsburg titles and issues

In 1961, his father, Otto von Habsburg, renounced all claims to the defunct Austrian throne, as a necessary legal condition to being allowed to return to Austria. Karl does not use his ancestral titles, because unlike most European countries, even the unofficial use of such titles is not permitted in Hungary and Austria.[5] Habsburg says:

I don't refer to titles, I'm not that vain. People use these titles out of respect for history and the role of my family in history.[6]

Although the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz (Law on the Abolition of the Nobility) abolished all Austrian and Hungarian noble, royal, and imperial titles in 1919,[7] and their usage is still illegal in those countries,[8] media elsewhere occasionally refer to Karl von Habsburg by his ancestral titles[9][10] of Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia.[11]

At the request of the USSR, which was wary of a restoration of the monarchy, the anti-Habsburg laws became mandatory international and constitutional components of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955.[12][13][14] The family tried to get their former property returned under rules for victims of the Nazi regime. The attempt of Karl von Habsburg failed because the law of expropriation still has constitutional status.[15] On 1 January 2007, his father relinquished his position as the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, a status which then devolved on Karl,[16] and in 2008 he became the grand master of a Habsburg-Lorraine Order of St. George.[17]

As head of the Habsburg family, Karl undertakes numerous commitments. On the one hand, these are cultural, historical, political, but also tourist events and, on the other hand, commitments to orders of chivalry, associations or military units. Many events, such as the participation in the peace flight in 2018 as a pilot with his plane, concerned the centenary of World War I.[18] In 2019 there were many events in honor of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.[19] He is supported in this work by an adjutant general or adjutant.[20]

Career

Karl von Habsburg did his military service in 1981 as a Platoon commander of a Jäger (infantry) Platoon as a one-year volunteer with the Austrian Armed Forces, where he later also completed his pilot training and is currently a reserve Hauptmann (captain) in the Austrian Air Force. He is also an Austrian Army Cultural Property Protection Officer, first with the staff of the Military Command of Salzburg, later with the Armed Forces High Command, currently with IHSW at Staff College. As a paratrooper, he was elected President of the European Military Paratroopers Association (Europäischen Militär- Fallschirmsprungverbandes e.V.) in 2001 - a role that he still holds today.[21]

Since 1986, Karl von Habsburg has been president of the Austrian branch of the Paneuropean Union, which co-organised the Pan-European Picnic. In May 1990, Habsburg personally led an aid convoy to Vilnius with food, medicine and clothing as a representative of the Paneuropean Union, in response to the Soviet Union's blockade of raw materials following the proclamation of Lithuanian independence in March 1990. In 1991 he organized international aid against the destruction in Dubrovnik and in the former Yugoslavia.[22]

In 1992/1993, he hosted a TV game show with Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF, called Who Is Who.[23][24] In October 1996, he was elected to the European Parliament for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Two years later, it emerged that the ÖVP's election campaign had benefited from at least 30,000 Mark of World Vision donation money via Paneurope Austria while Karl von Habsburg sat on the board of World Vision Austria, apparently without noticing the director's dubiously legal activities.[25] His father exacerbated the controversy when he complained that his son was being attacked unfairly and drew a parallel between the name "Habsburg" and a yellow badge.[25] ÖVP did not nominate Karl von Habsburg again for the 1999 elections.[23][26] In 2004, Karl von Habsburg paid 37,000 euros to the new World Vision Austria branch.[26]

On 19 January 2002, he was appointed Director General of UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) by the UNPO Steering Committee.[27]

Blue Shield

From 7 December 2008, he became the President of the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield,[28] a cultural protection organisation that later became Blue Shield International. Habsburg was a strong supporter of those who created the "No Strike List" of cultural heritage sites and cultural sites that should be preserved when attacks or flight operations were carried out.[29] This particularly moved NATO troops to protect the cultural assets and the economic and cultural basis of the civilian population.[30]

Habsburg particularly supports the bringing together of military and civilian personnel and the cooperation of various international organizations for the protection of cultural assets, such as the Blue Shield, UNIFIL and UNESCO deployment in Lebanon in 2019, and the cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2020.[31][32][33] After the explosion in the port of Beirut in Lebanon in summer 2020, Habsburg helped coordinate the reconstruction and aid on site.[34] He stepped down as President of the Blue Shield at the General Assembly in August 2020.[2]

Since 2010 he has been chairman of the advisory board of the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property Protection at the University of Vienna. He delivers lectures and training courses worldwide on the role of the military in protecting cultural property, such as at the United States Africa Command, the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence or the Theresian Military Academy.[35][36][37] He emphasizes that it is crucial for cultural property protection to be on the spot quickly: "We know the importance to be fast and in a place where there is a potential conflict or an actual conflict; you have to be there really fast to make an assessment and to see what you can do to immediately help."[38]

Business interests

Since 2009, he has been a shareholder in a media group in the Netherlands, consisting of radio stations, a magazine and a music television channel. He is also one of the three co-founders of BG Privatinvest, a Vienna-based investment company. In December 2010 the company acquired the two most important Bulgarian daily newspapers, Dneven Trud and 24 Chasa.[39] After ongoing conflicts with Bulgarian partners, BG Privatinvest sold the newspapers in April 2011.[40]

Personal life

 
Appearing on British television programme After Dark in 1989

Habsburg has lived in Salzburg, Austria, since 1981, and resided in Casa Austria, formerly called Villa Swoboda, in Anif, near the city of Salzburg, until 2022.[41][42] On 31 January 1993 in Mariazell, he married Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 7 June 1958 in Lausanne), the only daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon, a European industrialist, and his third wife, the fashion model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter.[43] The marriage received the dynastic authorization of Karl's father, as head of the House of Habsburg, despite objections from some members of the family as the bride, although a baroness in the nobility of pre-republican Hungary and Transylvania, did not descend in the canonically legitimate male line from a family of dynastic (ruling or formerly ruling or mediatised) status.[44][45]

In July 1998 an Austrian court fined Karl von Habsburg 180,000 schillings ($14,300); he had failed to declare immediately to customs officials that he had an antique diadem in his luggage when he crossed the border from Switzerland in July 1996.[46] The diadem belonged to his wife who intended to wear it at a wedding ceremony. After 10 years of marriage, the couple separated in 2003.[47] Finally, they divorced in 2017.[48]

Karl and Francesca have three children:

In the spring of 2022 in Portugal, Karl married Christian Nicolau de Almeida Reid, a woman of Portuguese descent.[50]

In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he tested positive for the virus. Habsburg self-isolated at home.[51] He was the first royal person and head of a royal house to contract the virus.[52] Karl von Habsburg was officially declared healthy after almost three weeks of quarantine. After his illness, Karl von Habsburg encouraged everyone to follow the official protective measures strictly, and asked survivors of the disease to donate blood plasma.[53]

Honours

National dynastic honours

Other

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The family name of Karl von Habsburg's father was declared to be Habsburg-Lothringen by an Austrian ministerial decision in 1957 [1] and by a German court (Landgericht Würzburg) on 16 July 1958. Otto was, however, at the time de facto stateless, living in Germany with a Spanish diplomatic passport, and was denied both entry to Austria and an Austrian passport. Otto's official name as a German citizen from 1978 was Otto von Habsburg.

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External links

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Karl von Habsburg
Born: 11 January 1961
Titles in pretence
Preceded by — TITULAR —
Emperor of Austria,
King of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia, Dalmatia,
Slavonia, Galicia, Illyria, and Jerusalem
4 July 2011 – present
Reason for succession failure:
Austro-Hungarian Empire abolished in 1918 		Incumbent
Heir:
Ferdinand Habsburg

March 04, 2023
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Francesca Thyssen Bornemisza m 1993 div 2017 wbr Christian Nicolau de Almeida Reid m 2022 wbr ChildrenEleonore von HabsburgFerdinand HabsburgGloria von HabsburgParent s Otto Crown Prince of AustriaPrincess Regina of Saxe MeiningenKarl is the son of Archduke Otto von Habsburg Crown Prince of Austria and Princess Regina of Saxe Meiningen and the grandson of the last Austro Hungarian emperor Charles I He is head and sovereign of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece Karl von Habsburg served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People s Party 1996 1999 He is known for being Pro European and is also an advocate for the Pan European movement Karl von Habsburg s career has focused on the issue of protecting cultural heritage from threats such as armed conflict and natural disasters He was president of the cultural protection organization Blue Shield International from 2008 until August 2020 2 Contents 1 Early life 1 1 House of Habsburg titles and issues 2 Career 2 1 Blue Shield 2 2 Business interests 3 Personal life 4 Honours 4 1 National dynastic honours 4 2 Other 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksEarly life EditKarl von Habsburg was born on 11 January 1961 in Starnberg Bavaria He was baptised in Pocking Bavaria as Archduke Karl of Austria Erzherzog Karl von Osterreich the name entered in the baptismal records 3 At the time of his birth his father was de facto stateless and possessed a Spanish diplomatic passport he had grown up in Spain while his mother was a German citizen Like his father and siblings he was banished from Austria for the first years of his life However the administrative court of Austria later ruled that applying to return to the country was legal and his family was granted visa entrance in June 1966 4 House of Habsburg titles and issues EditIn 1961 his father Otto von Habsburg renounced all claims to the defunct Austrian throne as a necessary legal condition to being allowed to return to Austria Karl does not use his ancestral titles because unlike most European countries even the unofficial use of such titles is not permitted in Hungary and Austria 5 Habsburg says I don t refer to titles I m not that vain People use these titles out of respect for history and the role of my family in history 6 Although the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz Law on the Abolition of the Nobility abolished all Austrian and Hungarian noble royal and imperial titles in 1919 7 and their usage is still illegal in those countries 8 media elsewhere occasionally refer to Karl von Habsburg by his ancestral titles 9 10 of Archduke of Austria Royal Prince of Hungary Bohemia and Croatia 11 At the request of the USSR which was wary of a restoration of the monarchy the anti Habsburg laws became mandatory international and constitutional components of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955 12 13 14 The family tried to get their former property returned under rules for victims of the Nazi regime The attempt of Karl von Habsburg failed because the law of expropriation still has constitutional status 15 On 1 January 2007 his father relinquished his position as the head of the House of Habsburg Lorraine a status which then devolved on Karl 16 and in 2008 he became the grand master of a Habsburg Lorraine Order of St George 17 As head of the Habsburg family Karl undertakes numerous commitments On the one hand these are cultural historical political but also tourist events and on the other hand commitments to orders of chivalry associations or military units Many events such as the participation in the peace flight in 2018 as a pilot with his plane concerned the centenary of World War I 18 In 2019 there were many events in honor of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I 19 He is supported in this work by an adjutant general or adjutant 20 Career EditKarl von Habsburg did his military service in 1981 as a Platoon commander of a Jager infantry Platoon as a one year volunteer with the Austrian Armed Forces where he later also completed his pilot training and is currently a reserve Hauptmann captain in the Austrian Air Force He is also an Austrian Army Cultural Property Protection Officer first with the staff of the Military Command of Salzburg later with the Armed Forces High Command currently with IHSW at Staff College As a paratrooper he was elected President of the European Military Paratroopers Association Europaischen Militar Fallschirmsprungverbandes e V in 2001 a role that he still holds today 21 Since 1986 Karl von Habsburg has been president of the Austrian branch of the Paneuropean Union which co organised the Pan European Picnic In May 1990 Habsburg personally led an aid convoy to Vilnius with food medicine and clothing as a representative of the Paneuropean Union in response to the Soviet Union s blockade of raw materials following the proclamation of Lithuanian independence in March 1990 In 1991 he organized international aid against the destruction in Dubrovnik and in the former Yugoslavia 22 In 1992 1993 he hosted a TV game show with Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF called Who Is Who 23 24 In October 1996 he was elected to the European Parliament for the Austrian People s Party OVP Two years later it emerged that the OVP s election campaign had benefited from at least 30 000 Mark of World Vision donation money via Paneurope Austria while Karl von Habsburg sat on the board of World Vision Austria apparently without noticing the director s dubiously legal activities 25 His father exacerbated the controversy when he complained that his son was being attacked unfairly and drew a parallel between the name Habsburg and a yellow badge 25 OVP did not nominate Karl von Habsburg again for the 1999 elections 23 26 In 2004 Karl von Habsburg paid 37 000 euros to the new World Vision Austria branch 26 On 19 January 2002 he was appointed Director General of UNPO Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization by the UNPO Steering Committee 27 Blue Shield Edit From 7 December 2008 he became the President of the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield 28 a cultural protection organisation that later became Blue Shield International Habsburg was a strong supporter of those who created the No Strike List of cultural heritage sites and cultural sites that should be preserved when attacks or flight operations were carried out 29 This particularly moved NATO troops to protect the cultural assets and the economic and cultural basis of the civilian population 30 Habsburg particularly supports the bringing together of military and civilian personnel and the cooperation of various international organizations for the protection of cultural assets such as the Blue Shield UNIFIL and UNESCO deployment in Lebanon in 2019 and the cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2020 31 32 33 After the explosion in the port of Beirut in Lebanon in summer 2020 Habsburg helped coordinate the reconstruction and aid on site 34 He stepped down as President of the Blue Shield at the General Assembly in August 2020 2 Since 2010 he has been chairman of the advisory board of the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property Protection at the University of Vienna He delivers lectures and training courses worldwide on the role of the military in protecting cultural property such as at the United States Africa Command the Civil Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence or the Theresian Military Academy 35 36 37 He emphasizes that it is crucial for cultural property protection to be on the spot quickly We know the importance to be fast and in a place where there is a potential conflict or an actual conflict you have to be there really fast to make an assessment and to see what you can do to immediately help 38 Business interests Edit Since 2009 he has been a shareholder in a media group in the Netherlands consisting of radio stations a magazine and a music television channel He is also one of the three co founders of BG Privatinvest a Vienna based investment company In December 2010 the company acquired the two most important Bulgarian daily newspapers Dneven Trud and 24 Chasa 39 After ongoing conflicts with Bulgarian partners BG Privatinvest sold the newspapers in April 2011 40 Personal life Edit Appearing on British television programme After Dark in 1989 Habsburg has lived in Salzburg Austria since 1981 and resided in Casa Austria formerly called Villa Swoboda in Anif near the city of Salzburg until 2022 41 42 On 31 January 1993 in Mariazell he married Baroness Francesca Thyssen Bornemisza born 7 June 1958 in Lausanne the only daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon a European industrialist and his third wife the fashion model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell Walter 43 The marriage received the dynastic authorization of Karl s father as head of the House of Habsburg despite objections from some members of the family as the bride although a baroness in the nobility of pre republican Hungary and Transylvania did not descend in the canonically legitimate male line from a family of dynastic ruling or formerly ruling or mediatised status 44 45 In July 1998 an Austrian court fined Karl von Habsburg 180 000 schillings 14 300 he had failed to declare immediately to customs officials that he had an antique diadem in his luggage when he crossed the border from Switzerland in July 1996 46 The diadem belonged to his wife who intended to wear it at a wedding ceremony After 10 years of marriage the couple separated in 2003 47 Finally they divorced in 2017 48 Karl and Francesca have three children Eleonore Maria del Pilar Iona Christina Jelena born 28 February 1994 in Salzburg Married civilly to Jerome d Ambrosio on 20 July 2020 Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard born 21 June 1997 in Salzburg Gloria Maria Bogdana Paloma Regina Fiona Gabriela born 15 October 1999 in Salzburg her godmother is Gloria Princess of Thurn and Taxis 49 In the spring of 2022 in Portugal Karl married Christian Nicolau de Almeida Reid a woman of Portuguese descent 50 In March 2020 during the COVID 19 pandemic he tested positive for the virus Habsburg self isolated at home 51 He was the first royal person and head of a royal house to contract the virus 52 Karl von Habsburg was officially declared healthy after almost three weeks of quarantine After his illness Karl von Habsburg encouraged everyone to follow the official protective measures strictly and asked survivors of the disease to donate blood plasma 53 Honours EditNational dynastic honours Edit House of Habsburg Sovereign and Head of the Order of the Golden Fleece 54 House of Habsburg Sovereign of the Order of the Starry Cross 54 House of Habsburg Lorraine Sovereign of the Order of St George 55 Other Edit Grand Master of the Military Order of Saint Sebastian in Europe Ritterschaft vom Heiligen Sebastianus in Europa 56 Supreme Bearer of the Couleur of the Austrian Catholic Student Fraternities katholisch osterreichischen Landsmannschaften 57 Protector of the Order of Knights of Wine Ordo Equestris Vini Europae 58 Grand Cordon of the Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl 59 See also EditHeads of former ruling familiesNotes Edit The family name of Karl von Habsburg s father was declared to be Habsburg Lothringen by an Austrian ministerial decision in 1957 1 and by a German court Landgericht Wurzburg on 16 July 1958 Otto was however at the time de facto stateless living in Germany with a Spanish diplomatic passport and was denied both entry to Austria and an Austrian passport Otto s official name as a German citizen from 1978 was Otto von Habsburg References Edit Karl Habsburg Lothringen Biografie Parlament Osterreich www parlament gv at in German Retrieved 2 June 2022 a b Blue Shield General Assembly The Blue Shield Blue Shield International 23 September 2020 Retrieved 12 January 2021 Habsburgs Erbe zerfiel und erlebte dennoch eine Renaissance DiePresse com diepresse com Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 13 November 2016 House of Habsburg European dynasty Encyclopedia Britannica Archived from the original on 1 August 2018 Retrieved 1 August 2018 RIS Gesamte Rechtsvorschrift fur Habsburgergesetz Bundesrecht konsolidiert Fassung vom 09 08 2015 bka gv at Archived from the original on 30 September 2019 Retrieved 7 May 2011 Ist der Adel passe Herr Habsburg Kronen Zeitung 25 February 2018 Archived from the original on 3 March 2020 Retrieved 2 April 2020 Law of April 3 1919 on the referral from the state and the takeover of the assets of the House of Habsburg Lorraine Rechtsinformationssystems des Bundes Archived from the original on 30 September 2019 Retrieved 7 May 2011 Korom Philipp Dronkers Jaap 2015 Nobles among the Austrian economic elite in the early twenty first century PDF Nobilities in Europe in the Twentieth Century Reconversion Strategies Memory Culture and Elite Formation Peeters pp 281 304 S2CID 148519346 PDF Retrieved 7 July 2020 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a Check archive url value help CS1 maint url status link Kaiser Joseph II harmonische Wahlkapitulation mit allen den vorhergehenden Wahlkapitulationen der vorigen Kaiser und Konige Croatian Coronation Oath of 1916 pp 2 4 Emperor of Austria Hungary and Croatia Slavonia and Dalmatia Apostolic king For some examples of this usage see Burke s Guide to the Royal Family edited by Hugh Montgomery Massingberd published by Burke s Peerage London 1973 p 240 ISBN 0 220 66222 3 Nicolas Enache s La Descendance de Marie Therese de Habsburg published by ICC Paris 1996 pp 44 50 Chantal de Badts de Cugnac and Guy Coutant de Saisseval s Le Petit Gotha published by Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery Paris 2002 pp 201 202 ISBN 2 9507974 3 1 the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Furstliche Hauser Vol XVI published by C A Starke Verlag 2001 pp 87 90 ISBN 3 79800824 8 fn 1 A Habsburg monarchy or Danube federation as aimed by the British side was seen by 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Bedrangnis Volkspartei und Adel ein schwieriges Verhaltnis Datum 10 archived from the original on 14 May 2007 UNPO UNPO Steering Committee appoints Karl von Habsburg as the organizations new Director General UNPO Website Archived from the original on 3 September 2010 Retrieved 23 April 2011 This position is separate from the Secretary General as the UNPO Website explains This is a newly created senior position within the UNPO aimed at further enhancing the fundamental rights of its Members world wide Blue Shield ANCBS An organization for protection of culture in danger Blue Shield Website Archived from the original on 23 March 2012 Retrieved 23 April 2011 Kane Susan May 2013 Lessons Learned From Libya SAA 13 3 Retrieved 12 January 2021 Protecting Libya s heritage NATO Archived from the original on 7 August 2020 Retrieved 3 July 2020 The ICRC and the Blue Shield signed a Memorandum of Understanding 26 February 2020 Archived from the original on 22 March 2020 Retrieved 22 March 2020 via 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Protecting Libya s heritage NATO News 4 Januar 2012 Von Habsburg propagates vehemently worldwide through on site missions lectures workshops and interviews on the protection of archaeological finds and archaeological sites in addition to the establishment of rules documentation and lists and the training of the police the military civil administration and international organizations but with particular importance the strong involvement of the local population It is only through cooperation with the locals that the protection of archaeological finds exhibits and excavation sites from destruction looting and robbery can be implemented sustainably He summed it up with the words Without the local community and without the local participants that would be completely impossible lt ref gt Action plan to preserve heritage sites during conflict United Nations Peacekeeping Archived from the original on 27 May 2020 Retrieved 24 March 2020 German media group sells its newspaper and publishing business in Bulgaria Associated Press Newswire 15 December 2010 Sopharma Owner Partner Win Battle for WAZ Asssets in Bulgaria Novinite 18 April 2011 Villa Swoboda Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine SalzburgWiki ttrenkler 17 June 2022 Habsburg verkauft Villa Wohnen wie bei Kaisers kurier at in German Retrieved 18 September 2022 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Furstliche Hauser vol 16 C A Starke Verlag 2001 pp 87 90 German ISBN 3 79800824 8 Enache Nicolas La Descendance de Marie Therese de Habsburg ICC Paris 1996 p 50 French ISBN 2 908003 04 X de Badts de Cugnac Chantal and Coutant de Saisseval Guy Le Petit Gotha Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery Paris 2002 pp 201 202 French ISBN 2 9507974 3 1 Member of Habsburg family fined for smuggling Reuters News 21 July 1998 Shaw William We Are Not a Muse Archived 27 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine New York Times 25 February 2007 Collector Francesca Thyssen Bornemisza on artists being advocates for change Financial Times 1 November 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