Archduke Heinrich Anton of Austria (Heinrich Anton Maria Rainer Karl Gregor), (May 9, 1828, Milan â November 30, 1891, Vienna) was an Archduke of Austria and Lieutenant field marshal.
Heinrich Anton was the fifth son of the Viceroy Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria and Princess Elisabeth of Savoy.
Heinrich Anton had a military career and became Feldmarschallleutnant and commander of a division in Graz and later Brünn. He saw action in the War against Italy and distinguished himself during the Battle of Custoza in 1866.
In 1852 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Due to the disapproval of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria following his morganatic marriage in 1868, he was expelled from the royal family and laid down all his military functions and moved to Luzern in Switzerland, where the couple lived until he was pardoned by the Emperor in 1871. The couple returned to Tyrol where Heinrich Anton retired from the Army and lived in a palace in the Musterstreet in Bolzano.
Heinrich Anton married morganatically on February 4, 1868, in Bolzano with singer Leopoldine Hofmann (1840âÂÂ1891), who became Freifrau von Waideck in 1878. They had one daughter:
On a rare visit to Vienna in 1891, both Heinrich Anton and his wife contracted pneumonia (see also 1889âÂÂ1890 pandemic) and they died in the same night.