He first married at
Castagnola-Cassarate, 1 August 1946,
Austrian Princess Teresa Amalia Franziska Elisabeth Maria of
Lippe-Weissenfeld (21 July 1925 – 16 July 2008), daughter of Prince Alfred of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1896–1970) and Countess Franziska of
Schönborn-Buchheim (1902–1987). She belonged to the cadet branch of
House of Lippe who had been reigning princes until the fall of the German Empire in 1918 (following their divorce on 14 May 1954, she married secondly in 1960 Prince Friedrich Maximilian zu
Fürstenberg (1926–1969), by whom she had further issue). Their only son was: •
Baron Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (b.
Lugano-Castagnola, 19 March 1950 - d.
Zürich, 30 September 2022), chairman of TBG (Thyssen-Bornemisza Group) Holdings N.V., who has one son (born out of wedlock) by
Countess Catharina Eleonore
von Meran, former wife of Alexander Kahane and daughter of
Count Maximilian
von Meran (born 1930) and his wife, Princess Colienne zu
Schwarzenberg (born 1937): • Simon Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (b.
Vienna, 1 December 2001)
Second marriage His second marriage was in
Colombo,
Ceylon, or Paris, 23 June 1954,
Anglo-Indian fashion model
Nina Sheila Dyer (1930–1965), an heiress to properties in Ceylon; they had no children and divorced on 4 July 1956, pursuant to the settlement of which she received a
château in
France. She later married and divorced
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and committed suicide in 1965.
Third marriage He married for the third time at
Lugano-Castagnola on 17 September 1956 New Zealand-born British photographic and fashion model
Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter (b.
Takapuna, New Zealand, 25 June 1932). They divorced on 20 January 1965, and she went on to have a well-publicized relationship with Greek shipping heir
Alexander Onassis, the only son of
Aristotle Onassis. She was a daughter of
Rear Admiral Keith McNeil Walter (later Campbell-Walter) (1904–1976),
aide de camp of
King George VI and his wife, Frances Henriette Campbell (born in 1904), a maternal granddaughter of
Sir Edward Campbell, 1st Baronet. Their children were: •
Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born
Lausanne, 7 June 1958), married at
Mariazell, 31 January 1993 to
Karl Habsburg-Lothringen (divorced in 2017), heir to the defunct
Austro-Hungarian imperial throne, and had issue. • Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (born 15 June 1963), who converted to
Islam; he is the producer and director of the 2003 film, "Labyrinth" and
executive produced "The Garden of Eden" in 2008. He is the Chairman of Thyssen Petroleum and founder of the
Kallos Gallery in London. He married in 2005 Alexandra Wright; they have one daughter.
Fourth marriage He married for the fourth time at Lugano-Castagnola, 13 December 1967, Lilian
Denise Shorto (b.
Recife, 23 December 1942), a Brazilian banker's daughter, from whom he was divorced 29 November 1984. They had one son: • Baron Wilfrid "Alexander" August Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (born Zurich 1974), unmarried and without issue.
Fifth marriage His fifth and final marriage was in
Daylesford, Gloucestershire, on 16 August 1985,
María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Cervera y Fernández de la Guerra, popularly known as Carmen "Tita" Cervera, (born
Sitges,
Barcelona, 23 April 1943), who was
Miss Spain in 1961. They had no children, but Hans Heinrich adopted her son, Alejandro Borja (born Madrid, 1980, son of Manuel Segura), who married at Barcelona, 11 October 2007 Blanca María Cuesta Unkhoff and had two children: Sacha Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon on 31 January 2008 and Eric Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon on 5 August 2010. His widow has also adopted two baby girls, twins, called Guadalupe Sabina and María del Carmen in July 2006.
Death Hans Henrich died in
Sant Feliu de Guíxols,
Spain. He is buried in the family burial vault of
Schloss Landsberg in the
Ruhr valley near
Essen,
Germany. ==Ancestry==