Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria

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Archduke Johann Salvator

Born

25 November 1852
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany

Spouse

Ludmilla ("Milli") Stubel

(m. 1889⁠–⁠1890)

Names
Declared dead in absentia on 2 February 1911

Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (

declared dead in absentia

in February 1911.

Early life

Archduke Johann Salvator was born in Florence, the youngest son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies. He was baptized in Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni as Giovanni Nepomuceno Maria Annunziata Giuseppe Giovanni Batista Ferdinando Baldassare Luigi Gonzaga Pietro Alessandrino Zanobi Antonino.^[1] He pursued a career in the Austrian Army and was a good friend of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, with both sharing liberal opinions.^[2]

After

Alexander of Battenberg would be elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1879. During the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, he was put in command of a division of the occupying army and won numerous honours.^[4]^[5]

On 16 October 1889, he resigned his army commission and renounced his title and the privileges he enjoyed as a member of the Austrian imperial family.

Schloss Orth

Disappearance

In 1889, Johann Salvator married Ludmilla ("Milli") Stubel, an

dancer in London.^[7] Shortly after his marriage, he purchased a ship named the Santa Margareta, on which he and his wife sailed for South America. In February 1890 he set off from Montevideo, Uruguay, heading for Valparaíso in Chile.^[8] He was last seen on 12 July in Cape Tres Puntas, Argentina. It is believed that his ship was lost during a storm off the coast of Cape Horn.^[9] He was officially declared dead on 2 February 1911 in Vienna.^[10]^[11] His possessions were disposed of in 1912.^[12]

In the years following Salvator's disappearance, numerous sightings of him were reported. Rumors persisted that he and his wife sailed to

Kristiansand, Norway named Alexander Hugo Køhler made a deathbed confession claiming that he was Johann Salvator. Køhler claimed that, as Johann Orth, he "bought" the identity of Alexander Hugo Køhler and assumed his life. Køhler claimed that the real Alexander Hugo Køhler posed as Salvator and it was he who died at sea.^[13]

Films about the Johann Orth mystery

Das Geheimnis der Santa Margherita (dir. Rolf Randolf, 1921)
A Vanished World (dir. Alexander Korda, 1922)
The Secret of Johann Orth (dir. Willi Wolff, 1932)
The Red Prince (dir. Hans Schott-Schöbinger, 1954)

References

^ "Photography of baptismal register on 1852, 26th November". Retrieved 7 September 2012.
^
ISBN 978-1-55002-498-2
.

^ Barkeley, Richard (1959). The Road to Mayerling: Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. Macmillan. p. 158.
^ "Europe's Latest Treaty". New York Times. 24 July 1878. p. 1.
^ "Orth Officially Dead". New York Times. 28 May 1911. p. 1.
^ Almanach de Gotha. Justus Perthes. 1891. p. 12.
^ "Johann Orth: Habsburg (ret'd)". habsburger.net. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
^ "The Missing Archduke". New York Times. 26 December 1890. p. 1.
^ "Will Be Declared Dead". The Milwaukee Sentinel. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 26 February 1911. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
^ "John Orth Declared Dead". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2 February 1911. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
^ Gies McGuigan, Dorothy (1966). The Habsburgs. Doubleday. p. 381.
^ "JOHANN ORTH". Sunday Times. No. 1387. New South Wales, Australia. 18 August 1912. p. 23. Retrieved 2 December 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Alexander Hugo Köhler - German lithographer or Italian Archduke?" (in Norwegian). da2.uib.no. April 2008. Archived from the original on 3 January 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2015.

External links

Newspaper clippings about Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archduke_Johann_Salvator_of_Austria&oldid=1217580176"

Early life

Disappearance

Films about the Johann Orth mystery

See also

References

External links