Thun-Hohenstein

The Thun und Hohenstein family, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, belonged to the historical Bohemian and Austrian nobility. One branch of the family lived at Děčín (Tetschen), Bohemia, for more than 200 years.

A feudal family originally from Tyrol, the male line traces back to Manfreinus of Tunno in 1187. All males of the family were granted the title of Count of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgraf) in 1629, and the title of Prince (Fürst) was conferred upon the head of the family, along with the style of Durchlaucht in the Austrian Empire in 1911. They were hereditary members of the Austrian House of Lords, in right of possession of the entailed manor of Tetschen since 1879.

Of the three sons of Count Franz, the eldest, Friedrich (1810–1881), entered the diplomatic service. After holding other posts he was in 1850 appointed president of the restored German Diet at Frankfurt, where he represented the anti-Prussian policy of Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, and often came into conflict with Prince Bismarck, who was the Prussian envoy. He was afterwards ambassador at Berlin and St. Petersburg. After his retirement in 1863 from the public service in the Bohemian Landtag and the Austrian Reichsrat he supported the federal policy of his brother Leo. In 1879 he was made a hereditary member of the Upper House. In this position he was, on his death 24 September 1881, succeeded by his eldest son Franz Anton (born 1847).

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