Sunday, October 6, 2024

Count Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg weds Katja Tegeder

 

Count and Countess Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg



The marriage between Count Franz Clemens Gabriel Ludwig Ghislain Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg and Katja Sophia Tegeder took place on September 7 at St. Veit-Michaelskirche in Heiligenstadt.

The officiant was Father Wolfgang Dichgans, the son of Joseph Dichgans and Countess Eleonore von Waldburg-Zeil.

Franz is the son of Count Alexander Otto Philipp Eckart Berthold MariaSchenk von Stauffenberg (1954) and H Ill H Countess Maria-Anna Gabrielle Ghislaine (1960).  The groom was born in 1993.  He is a great-great nephew of Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg who was executed in 1944 after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. 


Archduchess Maria and Archduke Simeon of Austria

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria and her husband, Prince Peter Galitzine

Prince Oskar of Prussia


Countess Maria Anna is the daughter of the late Paul, Prince von Quadt zu Wykradt und Isny (1930-2011) and HRH Princess Marie-Charlotte of Bavaria (1931-2018), daughter of Duke Albrecht of Bavaria and a granddaughter of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria by his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabriele in Bavaria.

 Count and Countess Franz Clemens of Waldburg-Zeil 

Archduke Christian and Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria

Count Franz (the groom) with his mother, Countess Maria-Anna.  Count Antonius Keglevich is the man in front of them


The reception was held at Schloss Greifenstein, owned by Count Franz's uncle, Count Christoph Schenk von Stauffenberg.





Duke Franz of Bavaria, head of the royal house, with his partner Thomas Greinwald.  The couple have been together since 1980.




The wedding guests included Duke Franz von Bayern and his partner, Thomas Greinwald, Archduke Carl Christian and Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria, Archduke Carl Peter of Austria, Archduke Simeon and Archduchess Maria of Austria, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria and her husband, Prince Peter Galitzine, Prince Oskar of Prussia,  the Prince and Princess of Quadt zu Wykradt und Isny and their three daughters, Countesses Philippa, Charlotta and Anna, Prince and Princess Erich von Lobkowicz with their son Prince Felix, and daughter, Princess Anna and her husband, Count Albrecht zu Eltz, Princes Josias and Johannes von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Prince and Princess Louis (Helene) von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, along with Helene's parents, Kilian and Christina von Petzold and her sisters, Sophie and Pauline, Count and Countess Franz Clemens von Waldburg Zeil Hohenems with their daughter, Cecilie,  Count and Countess Stephan von Waldburg Zeil, Count and Countess Antonius  Keglevich, Baroness Carl von  Lerchenfeld (Countess Walburga von Waldburg-Zeil) and her sister, Countess Gabriele von Waldburg-Zeil and her husband, Count Bernard de Monseignat.

Hereditary Prince Louis of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

Count Moritz von Drechsel

Baroness Sophie von Elverfeldt, the Hereditary Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Pauline von Pezold, and their father, Kilian von Pezold


All of the photos were taken by a friend, who is the copyright holder.    I thank her for allowing me to use the photos.


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