Friedrich, 7th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen

Friedrich was born on 26 November 1914 in Potsdam in Brandenburg, Germany into the ancient House of Fugger. He was the only son of Georg, 6th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen, and Danish Countess Elisabeth von Plessen (1891–1976). His sister, Countess Marie-Louise Fugger von Babenhausen, was the wife of Wilhelm von Hagen. Among his extended family were aunts Countess Friederike Fugger von Babenhausen (wife of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart), Countess Sylvia Fugger von Babenhausen (wife of Count Friedrich zu Münster, son of Prince Alexander Münster), and Countess Maria Theresia Fugger von Babenhausen (who married Prince Heinrich von Hanau und Horowitz, a grandson of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse). His maternal grandfather was Count Carl Gabriel Joachim Wilhelm Scheel-Plessen of Selsø. ==Career==

, 1910 Upon his father's death in 1934, he inherited the Fugger-Babenhausen fideicommissum, including Fugger Castle in Babenhausen, and succeeded to the primogeniture title, 7th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen. In 1954, he acquired the small Augsburg bank, Friedl and Dumler GmbH, which served the Swabia region of Bavaria. In 1994, his son renamed the bank, Fürst Fugger Privatbank, in reference to his family's historical Fugger banking house that closed in the 17th century. ==Personal life==

On 10 October 1942 at Sturefors Castle in Östergötland, Prince Friedrich married Countess Gunilla Bielke (1919–2015), a daughter of Count Thure Gabriel Bielke and Brigitta Marianne Sparre of Söfdeborg. A member of the Swedish nobility, her ancestor and namesake Gunilla Bielke, was the Queen of Sweden as consort to King John III of Sweden. Together, they were the parents of five children, including: • Herbertus Victor, 8th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen (born 1946), who married Princess Alexandra of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg, sister to Princess Gabriele Oettingen, both daughters of Alois, 9th Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg and Countess Elisabeth Gabriele of Lynar, in 1977. • Prince Markus Fugger von Babenhausen (born 1950) Through his son Johannes, he was a grandfather of Constantin Fugger von Babenhausen (who married Sophie von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg). ==References==