was born in 1929 in the old Schönburg territory of Glauchau. As a result of the war, the family moved to West Germany, where Count Schönburg worked as journalist and author. In 1965 he received an offer from the German Department of State to establish radio service in Somalia. Count Schönburg lived and worked for five years in Africa before returning with his family to Germany.

After the Fall of the Wall, he felt drawn to return to Saxony, his family’s home. In 1990 he rented an apartment in the old Rochsburg, the family seat of the counts of Schönburg, whence he had fled in 1945. With a great amount of commitment and love for his homeland, he attempted in his position as parliamentarian for the CDU party in the district of Glauchau between 1990 and 1994 to solve the problems caused by decades of German separation. When Count Schönburg died in 1998, the era of aristocratic residents in the castle of Rochsburg came to an end.