Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria

Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria
Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz
Photograph by Hermann Clemens Kosel, c. 1911
Born(1883-09-02)2 September 1883
Franzensburg Castle, Laxenburg, Austria-Hungary
Died16 March 1963(1963-03-16) (aged 79)
Villa Windisch-Graetz, Hütteldorf, Vienna, Austria
Burial
Hütteldorfer Friedhof
Spouse
(m. 1902; div. 1948)
Leopold Petznek
(m. 1948; died 1956)
Issue
Detail
Names
German: Elisabeth Marie Henriette Stephanie Gisela Habsburg-Lothringen
Hungarian: Habsburg–Lotaringiai Erzsébet Mária Henrietta Stefánia Gizella
HouseHabsburg-Lorraine
FatherRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
MotherPrincess Stéphanie of Belgium

Archduchess Elisabeth Marie Henriette Stephanie Gisela of Austria (Hungarian: Erzsébet Mária Henrietta Stefánia Gizella; 2 September 1883 – 16 March 1963) was the only child of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. Her father was the son and heir apparent of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, and her mother was a daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium. She was known to her family as "Erzsi", a diminutive of her name Erzsébet in Hungarian. Later nicknamed The Red Archduchess, she was famous for becoming a socialist and a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party.