Otto of Habsburg
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Otto von Habsburg in 2004
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| Head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine | |||||
| Tenure | 1 April 1922 – 1 January 2007 | ||||
| Predecessor | Charles I & IV | ||||
| Successor | Archduke Karl | ||||
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20 November 1912 Wartholz Castle, Reichenau an der Rax, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary |
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| Died | 4 July 2011 (aged 98) Pöcking, Germany |
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| Burial | 16 July 2011 (body); 17 July 2011 (heart) Imperial Crypt (body); Pannonhalma Archabbey (heart) |
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| Spouse | Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen | ||||
| Issue Detail |
Archduchess Andrea, Hereditary Countess of Neipperg Archduchess Monika, Duchess of Santángelo Archduchess Michaela Archduchess Gabriela Archduchess Walburga Archduke Karl Archduke Georg |
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| House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
| Father | Charles I of Austria | ||||
| Mother | Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg |
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Otto von Habsburg MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
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In office 1979–1999 |
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| Nationality |
 Austria (since 1956) Hungary Germany (since 1978) Croatia (since 1990) |
| Political party | Christian Social Union |
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Styles of Crown Prince Otto of Austria |
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| Reference style | His Imperial and Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Imperial and Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Otto von Habsburg (20 November 1912 – 4 July 2011), also known by his traditional royal titulature of Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1919, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and parts of Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. He became the pretender to the former thrones, Head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1922, upon the death of his father. He resigned as Sovereign of the Golden Fleece in 2000 and as head of the Imperial House in 2007.
The eldest son of Charles I and IV, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Otto was born as third in line to the thrones, as Archduke Otto of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia. With his father's accession to the thrones in 1916, he was likely to become the Emperor. As his father never abdicated, Otto was considered by himself, his family and Austro-Hungarian legitimists to be the rightful Emperor-King from 1922.
Otto was active on the Austrian and European political stage from the 1930s, both by promoting the cause of Habsburg restoration and as an early proponent of European integration—being thoroughly disgusted with nationalism—and a fierce opponent of Nazism and communism. He has been described as one of the leaders of the Austrian Resistance. After the 1938 Anschluss, monarchists were severely persecuted in Austria and sentenced to death by the Nazis, Otto fled to the United States with a visa issued by the noted Portuguese consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
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