Alexander, Count of Schonburg-Glauchau
| Alexander von Schönburg | |
|---|---|
| Count of Schönburg-Glauchau | |
| Born |
August 15, 1969 Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Spouse | Princess Irina of Hesse |
| Issue | Countess Maria-Letitia Count Maximus Count Valentin |
| House | House of Schönburg |
| Father | Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau |
| Mother | Countess Beatrix Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (born August 15, 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia), known generally and professionally as Alexander von Schönburg, is a German journalist and writer. He is the current head of the comital branch of the noble House of Schönburg.
Alexander was born in 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia to parents Joachim, Count von Schönburg-Glauchau, and Beatrix, Countess Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék. He is the youngest of four children from this marriage, after siblings Maria Felicitas (b. 1958), Gloria (b. 1960), and Carl-Alban (b. 1966). Their parents divorced in 1986. Afterwards, Alexander's father married Ursula Zwicker, and their union produced a daughter, Anabel Maya-Felicitas.
During the second half of the 1960s, Alexander's father's profession as a journalist and foreign correspondent took the family to Togo. They later moved to Somalia, before returning to Germany in 1970. The family thereafter resided in Meckenheim, in the Rhineland. Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, Alexander's father reclaimed the family's possessions in Saxony which had been taken from them after World War II. In later years, he was elected to the Bundestag.
Alexander's sister, Gloria, famously married into a very wealthy and princely house, becoming Princess of Thurn and Taxis. After ten years, however, her husband Prince Johannes died in 1990 leaving her with three young children and debts in the hundreds of millions. She was forced to downsize and reorganize their holdings in order to rescue the Thurn and Taxis fortune and legacy for Alexander's two nieces and his nephew, Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis.
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