He is the great-grandson of the last Austrian emperor, Karl I (1887-1922), and he likes to be on the gas: Ferdinand von Habsburg (24), son of Francesca and Karl Habsburg-Lothringen – and winner of the legendary LeMans race in 2021 In “You” magazine, the sympathetic offspring of a monarch and avowed Catholic had a real look at the aristocratic cards for the first time – and talked about his close connection to God. “I also want to show that it is possible to be Catholic as a young person,” said the native of Salzburg in an interview with the Catholic youth magazine “You”. At the same time, the great-grandson of the beatified Emperor Charles I confessed that it was not easy for him to reconcile his faith with top-class sport, in which there was “a lot of selfishness and egocentric behavior”.
A real fixed point for the young Habsburg, whose full name is Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Bahnam Leonhard Habsburg-Lothringen, is the mass. He “doesn’t feel so good if I haven’t gone to mass for two or three weeks. Then I am missing something. ”And: There are also moments in which he doubts,“ where you think it can’t have anything to do with love, ”Habsburg admits. “Faith is then particularly important there.” He then simply says to himself, “I don’t get it right now, but I believe. It is precisely in these moments that Jesus often comes to you. I don’t know why that works, but most of the time it is. “
