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Zdenko Lobkowitz (full name Maria Zdenko Vinzenz Kaspar, Prince of Lobkowitz; 5 May 1858 – 13 August 1933) was an Austrian officer in the Common Army of Austria-Hungary and a confidant of its last Emperor-King, Charles I. He was a member of the princely Lobkowicz family, an old Bohemian noble family.
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Zdenko Lobkowitz (full name Maria Zdenko Vinzenz Kaspar, Prince of Lobkowitz; 5 May 1858 – 13 August 1933) was an Austrian officer in the Common Army of Austria-Hungary and a confidant of its last Emperor-King, Charles I. He was a member of the princely Lobkowicz family, an old Bohemian noble family.
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Biography Zdenko Lobkowitz was born on 5 May 1858 in Vienna. He was one of the ten children of Cavalry General Joseph Franz Karl Prince of Lobkowicz (1803–1875) and his second wife, Maria Sidonia of Lobkowicz (1828–1917). After attending the gymnasium, in July 1876 the Prince joined the 14th Dragoon Regiment (Prince of Windisch-Graetz's Own), which was then stationed in Kőszeg in western Hungary. In 1878 he passed the cadet examination and became a lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Regiment (Emperor Francis I's Own) at Stanislau in Galicia, where he served until May 1901. He was promoted to Rittmeister in 1890. He then served in the 7th Dragoon Regiment (Duke of Lorraine's Own) in Brandýs nad Labem. In 1902 he became a major and in 1906 a lieutenant colonel. From 18 August 1907, after his career as an officer, he acted as head of chambers for Archduke Karl Franz Josef, who was 29 years his junior and who had interrupted his military service in Brandýs nad Labem in Bohemia to study in Prague. The Archduke, then number two in the line of succession, behind Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, became the direct heir to the throne of Emperor Franz Joseph I…
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Family The Prince was married to Pauline (Maria Paula) Duchess von Schönborn-Wiesenthal (1861–1922), a younger sister of the politician Friedrich von Schönborn. The couple had six children together:
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Imperial Order of Leopold Commander Order of the Iron Crown Knight 1st Class, War Decoration In addition, as mentioned above, the Emperor awarded Lobkowitz the Golden Fleece, the house order of the dynasty, which was not a specifically military order:
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Literature Rainer Egger: "Lobkowitz (Lobkowicz), Zdenko Prinz von". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 5, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 262.