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Christian is the 12th Prince (Fürst) of Fürstenberg and head of the House of Fürstenberg, one of the houses covered in GOTHA's guide to the mediatized houses [1][2]. This page uses only the family's website and a regional newspaper.
Head of the house
The Schwäbische Zeitung reported the death of Prince Heinrich of Fürstenberg in 2024; he left his wife, two sons, Prince Christian and Prince Antonius, and six grandchildren [2]. According to the paper, Christian succeeded his father as head of the House of Fürstenberg [2].
Role in the family business
The family's website states that Christian has been a member of the house's board since 2003 and, since 2022, President and CEO of the Haus Fürstenberg Family Office, which covers the house's business activities, including FF Capital GmbH, the forestry business and the timber industry [1]. The newspaper describes the same role as President and CEO of the Haus Fürstenberg Holding [2].
The house
The family's website describes the house as resident in Donaueschingen for centuries and still carrying cultural and charitable responsibilities in the region [1]. It traces the family, "with some probability", to the Unruochings around 800, and documents it with certainty in the 11th century as the counts of Urach [1]. King Rudolf of Habsburg enfeoffed Count Heinrich I of Fürstenberg with the landgraviate of the Baar, which became "the nucleus of the Fürstenberg state" [1].
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