Carl Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein

Karl Borromäus Vincenz Franz, Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (22 January 1831 – 2 February 1898) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat.

Early life Baron von Franckenstein was born on 22 January 1831 in Frankfurt, Hessen. He was a younger son of Imperial Baron Karl Arbogast von und zu Franckenstein, the Royal Chamberlain and Hereditary Imperial Councillor of the Crown of Bavaria, and his wife Leopoldine, née Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony. After his father's death in 1845, his elder brother, Georg Arbogast von Franckenstein, took over management of the family estates. George, a member of the Bavarian House of Councillors and First Vice President of the Reichstag, and married Princess Marie of Oettingen-Wallerstein (niece of Prince Louis of Oettingen-Wallerstein).

Career As a diplomat of the Austrian Empire, Baron von Franckenstein served as legation secretary for the Federal Presidential Envoy in Frankfurt.

Franckenstein then served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden from 1872 to 1879 and in Copenhagen from 1880 to 1888.

Personal life In Würzburg in 1872, Baron von Franckenstein was married to Sophie Elena Marie "Elma", Countess von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1841–1884), a daughter of Klemens, 3rd Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (which was mediatised to Bavaria in 1806) and Irene, Countess Batthyány de Német-Ujvár. Her brother, Arthur, 4th Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, married Princess Stephanie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (daughter of Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst). Together, they were the parents of:

Leopoldine von und zu Franckenstein (1874–1918), who married Gustav Hermann von Passavant, a son of Philipp Hermann Passavant. Clemens von und zu Franckenstein (1875–1942), an opera composer who married Maria Nezádal. Georg von und zu Franckenstein (1878–1953), the Austrian Minister to the Court of St James who married Editha King.

Franckenstein died in Vienna on 2 February 1898.

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