Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis
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Father | Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis |
Mother | Princess Anna Adelheid of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg |
Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, (30 January 1681 – 8 November 1739) was the second Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the House of Thurn and Taxis from 21 February 1714 until his death on 8 November 1739.
Early life
Anselm Franz was the eldest child and son of
Postmaster General
Under his father, at the beginning of the
Marriages and family
Anselm Franz married Czech noblewoman Princess Maria Ludovika Anna Franziska of Lobkowicz, daughter of Ferdinand August Leopold, Prince of Lobkowicz, Duke of Sagan and his wife Margravine Maria Anna Wilhelmine of Baden-Baden, on 10 January 1703. Franz Anselm and Maria Ludovika had four children:
- Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1704–1773)
- Princess Philippine Eleonore Maria of Thurn and Taxis (1705–1706)
- Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis(1706–1756)
- Prince Christian Adam Egon of Thurn and Taxis (1710–1745)
Legacy in telecom industry
Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis had connections with the French Postmaster
On May 21, 1738, a decision of the next Bourbon King
The story was transmitted from one generation to another. In 1867, 129 years later, the State of Prussia brought an end to the Thurn & Taxis Post, but unlike Louis XV, a significant compensation payment of 3.000.000 Thaler had to be made.[4]
In 1952
The idea came up to relaunch some Telecom activities in the old building which was almost unchanged since the times of the Postal Services. His families former postal headquarters, the Palais Tour et Taxis in Brussels and the Frankfurt Palais Thurn und Taxis had been destroyed.
According to Johannes von Thurn & Taxis "Spirit of Telecommunications had remained in the old walls"[6] of the 9-11 rue des Déchargeurs mansion in Paris.
With the help of Thurn und Taxis the student opened a small Phone Boutique as a "test project", today Cremerie de Paris N°2 [7] a few meters away from the Hôtel de Villeroy Bourbon. ... 249 years after the end of the postal operations. Johannes von Thurn und Taxis watched the "test" but he died very early 1990, December 14.
With the 1993 arrival of the Internet the "test" project turned into a global Internet Directory Publishing company and the Brand Museum Cremerie de Paris based in the historic building.
Attracted by the unusual Telecom history major Technology Corporations like Amazon [8] or Microsoft [9] are now coming to organise brand expos or product launches.
As a reminder of
Honours
Ancestry
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References
- ^ Barbier, Edmond Jean François (1866). Chronique de la régence et du règne de Louis XV (1718-1763) (in French). Paris, France: Charpentier.
- ISBN 978-2-7564-1154-5.
- ^ Anselm Franz 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis in the history of the Phone Book of the World
- ISBN 9780804732383.
- ^ photo of Johannes 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, historic links of place Marguerite de Navarre and Hotel de Villeroy Bourbon in relation to former Postal Services
- ^ Johannes 11the Prince of Thurn and Taxis in the history of the Phone Book of the World
- ^ The small Phone Boutique given by Thurn und Taxis leading to the Phone Book of the World, its network of White Pages and the Brand Museum Cremerie de Paris
- ^ Amazon Expo around the old Post Building
- ^ Microsoft Expos around the old Post Building
- ^ White Pages.fr for France
- ^ White Pages.ma for Morocco
- ^ White Pages.jp for Japan
Sources
- Wolfgang Behringer (1990), Thurn und Taxis, Die Geschichte ihrer Post und ihrer Unternehmen (in German), München, Zürich: Piper, ISBN 3-492-03336-9
- Martin Dallmeier; Martha Schad (1996), Das Fürstliche Haus Thurn und Taxis, 300 Jahre Geschichte in Bildern (in German), Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, ISBN 3-7917-1492-9
- Europäische Stammtafeln Band V