The Grand Master of the Order of St. George HIRH Karl Habsburg-Lorraine visited the city of Wels on 20 March to open the special exhibition “Maximilian I. Emperor – Reformer – Human Being” in the Castle’s City Museum and the redesigned Sisi Pavilion in the Lichtenegg Castle Park.
On 8 March 2019, for the first time friars and interested persons of the future delegation Liechtenstein/Switzerland/Vorarlberg and Alsace met in Zurich.
Under bright sunshine, around 350 knights and dames of the Order of St. George gathered on the Residenzplatz in front of the Salzburg Cathedral on October 26, 2019.
In the year 2020 the Order will “focus on the concept of freedom”, underlined our Grand Master HIRH Karl von Habsburg at the beginning of the open chapter meeting in the Knights’ Hall of the Residenz in Salzburg.
Despite all the successes of the European Union, the union of states has not come out of its permanent crisis since 2008. All participants in the discussion “Europe – quo vadis?”, which took place in Salzburg on the eve of the Day of the Order, agreed on this.
Cash is an indispensable part of everyday life and also fulfils an important educational function, as Dr. Gerhard Starsich, General Director of the Austrian Mint, emphasised in a lecture on October 2, 2019.
At the height of the election campaign for the National Council elections in Austria, the Order of St. George invited to the Palais Wertheim on September 23, 2019 to a panel discussionin in which high-profile representatives of five parties participated.
A prominent Austrian manager was a guest at Vienna’s Schönbrunn commandry on June 17, 2019: Andreas Matthä, Chairman of the Board of ÖBB-Holding AG.
Zur diesjährigen Jubiläumsveranstaltung der britischen Komturei in London am 14. und 15. Juni 2019, reisten neben den Rittern und Damen vieler Komtureien und Delegationen auch der Stellvertretende Großmeister SKKH Erzherzog Georg an.
At Nimerice Castle, half an hour north of Prague, the first ceremonial meeting of the recently appointed commandry Tschechien took place in Budapest.