German Royal. Officially known as Erzherzog Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria von Österreich (Archduke of Austria). He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833–1905) and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846–1927). Joseph August's grandfather had been Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776–1847), Palatine and Viceroy of Hungary, a younger son of Emperor Leopold II. Joseph August himself was for a short time the head of state of Hungary. When he died in 1962 he had been the last person to be appointed a Feldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Austro-Hungarian Army on 24 October 1918, as an attempt by Kaiser Karl to calm Hungarian nationalists. He remains were originally entered in the royal crypt at Friedhof Feldafing , but they were removed to the Royal Crypt at Buda Castle in 2005.
  • Name: Joseph August von Habsburg-Lothringen
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  • Birth: 09/08/1872 (Alcsútdoboz, Bicskei járás, Fejér, Hungary)
  • Death: 06/07/1962 (Straubing, Stadtkreis Straubing, Bavaria, Germany)
  • Died at 89
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