Otto von Habsburg dies
 

Poecking, Germany - Otto von Habsburg, the oldest son of the last monarch of the Austro-Hungarian empire and grand-son of Franz Joseph, died Monday at his home in southern Germany, a family employee disclosed. He was 98.


'He went peacefully,' a female staff member at the Habsburg home in Poecking, on Starnberg Lake south-west of Munich, told the German Press Agency dpa.


Further details were not immediately disclosed.
Habsburg was born on November 20, 1912, two years before the start of World War I which would lead to the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire ruled by his family.


The Austrian monarchy was abolished in 1918, and Otto von Habsburg's father, Emperor Karl I, relinquished the throne.


He was instrumental in the international recognition of Slovenia and Croatia. His biggest achievement was aranging dr. France Bucar's speech before the European Comunity about the democratization of Slovenia, without it Europe might have taken a longer time in recognizing Slovenias fight for independence, the Brion declaration would never have happened and the war might have been longer and bloodier.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg

When I saw your headline, I thought, he must have been 100 years old. So 98 he was...

RIP, Otto

Last of the line eh?

RIP Sir.

Not quite

There is Andrea, Monika, Michaela, Gabriela, Walburga, Karl, and Georg

And not to mention a cubic buttload of little von Hapsburgs kids running around.

:D

the current Head of the House of Habsburg.
 

No, the current Head of the House of Habsburg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Habsburg-Lothringen

Ah well the impression I had was he was the end of the bloodline...my apologies :yep:

:hmmm: Hmmm, there are two sons, so the bloodline continues? :06:
What do You think?

Paco.

....and so it continues.

He was the last with some sort of legal right to claim the throne of AH. His sons and their children merely ensure the survival of the name. There is a Napoleon something out there, the head of his house, but has no claims, similar to Karl now. Still odd to see old Otto go, he seemed ubiquitous.