Donnersmarck (1830–1916) were both wealthy industrialists. In 1854 and 1887, the family was given seats in the Prussian Hereditary House of Lords. Princes On 18 January 1901, Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck received the Prussian title of Prince from German Emperor Wilhelm II, heritable by masculine primogeniture. Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, the Henckel von Donnersmarck family lost its vast fortune due to expulsion from Silesia by Ukrainian troops of the Soviet Army. In 2007, film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his spy drama, The Lives of Others. Family members Lazarus (I) Henckel von Donnersmarck (1551–1624), banker and mining entrepreneur Count Carl Maximilian Henckel von Donnersmarck, castle owner Lazarus III, Count Henckel von Donnersmarck (1729–1805), mining industrialist Count Elias Maximilian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1746–1827), Prussian major general Countess Eleonore Ottilie Maximiliane Henckel von Donnersmarck (1756–1843) Count Carl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck (1772–1864), industrialist Wilhelm Ludwig Viktor, Count Henckel von Donnersmarck (1775–1849), Prussian Lieutenant-General Count Leo Victor Felix Henckel von Donnersmarck (1785–1861), German botanist Hugo, Count Henckel von Donnersmarck (1811–1890), land owner and industrialist Guido, Prince Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830–1916), land owner and industrialist, his wife was known as La Païva; she commissioned the Hotel de Païva at 25 avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris Count Lazarus IV Henckel von Donnersmarck (1835–1914), landowner and member of the German Reichstag Count Dr. Victor Parry Amadeus Henckel von Donnersmarck (1854–1916), envoy at the German Embassy in Copenhagen Countess Katharina Eleonore Veronika Irma Luise Henckel von Donnersmarck (1902–1965), actress, played the Queen of Transylvania in My Fair Lady; married in 1925 to Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1899–1987) Georg Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, (1902–1973), politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, member of parliament Carl Joseph Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (November 7, 1928 Romolkwitz, Neumarkt; † April 16, 2008), married Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg (1924–2007), father of Count Felix Henckel von Donnersmarck (March 2, 1960; † October 28, 2007) Augustine Heinrich Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (1935–2005), priest Count Leo-Ferdinand Henckel von Donnersmarck (1935–2009), President of the German Association of the Order of Malta (1997–2006) Count Winfried Henckel von Donnersmarck, a member of the Sovereign Council of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Count Hugh II and Edgar Henckel von Donnersmarck, resident in the Castle Polnisch Krawarn Count Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck (Ulrich Maria Karl Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck; born 1943), Abott of