Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen Bornemisza


Hans Henrik gost Gbor, Baron ThyssenBornemisza de Kszon et Imprfalva , a noted industrialist and art collector, was a Dutchborn Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title, a legal resident of Monaco for tax purposes, with a declared second residency in the United Kingdom, but in actuality a longtime resident of Spain, and son of a German father and a Hungarian and English American mother . His fifth and last wife, Carmen Tita Cervera, is a former Miss Spain.

He was born in Scheveningen, Netherlands, the son of Heinrich Thyssen and his first wife, Margit, Baroness Bornemisza de Kszon et Imprfalva . The Thyssen familys fortune was built upon a steel and armaments empire Heinrich Thyssen had abandoned Germany as a young man and settled in Hungary in 1905. In Budapest, Heinrich married the daughter of the Kings Hungarian chamberlain Baron Gbor Bornemisza who, having no sons of his own, adopted Heinrich, the Emperor Franz Joseph I of AustriaHungary extending his fatherinlaws baronial status in the Hungarian nobility to Hans Heinrich and his maleline descendants in 1907.

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