Archduke Rainer of Austria (1895–1930)

Archduke Rainer
Archduke of Austria Prince of Tuscany
Archduke Rainer (right) with his mother and his younger brother Archduke Leopold (left)
Died	25 May 1930(1930-05-25) (aged 34)
House	Habsburg-Tuscany
Father	Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany
Mother	Infanta Blanca of Spain

Archduke Rainer of Austria German: Rainer, Erzherzog von Österreich-Toskana; (21 November 1895 – 25 May 1930) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, a member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg, an Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany by birth. He was the eldest son Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany. He served as officer in the Austrian army during World War I. At the fall of the Habsburg dynasty, he remained in Vienna and worked for a time as taxi driver. He died unmarried at the age of 34 from blood-poisoning.

Archduke Rainer was born in Agram (the historic Austrian-German name for what is now the city of Zagreb in Croatia), the fourth child and eldest son of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and Infanta Blanca of Spain (daughter of Carlos, Duke of Madrid). He received the names Rainer Karl Leopold Blanka Anton Margarete Beatrix Peter Joseph Raphael Michael Ignaz Stephan.

During World War I Rainer served as a lieutenant of artillery in the Austro-Hungarian Army. After the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy and the establishment of the First Austrian Republic, he renounced his rights to the Austrian throne in order that he could remain in Austria. Henceforward he used the name Rainer Habsburg. He lived in an apartment in the Palais Toskana, but also retained properties in Zagreb, and in Galicia, and at Schloss Hernstein.