Alexander Hochberg
Alexander von Hochberg or Aleksander Pszczyński was a German aristocrat and military officer. In 1984, he briefly served as the head of the Hochberg von Pless princely family.
He was born 1 February 1905 in London, to Hans Heinrich XV, 3rd Prince von Pleß and his first wife Daisy, Princess of Pless. As an heir of once mighty Silesian ducal family of Dukes von Pless, Alexander had been a Polish citizen following the annexation of Upper Silesia and Pless by Poland in 1921. Following the confiscation by the Polish State of 65% of the family's assets and his father's death in 1938 he emigrated to Paris, where he surprisingly later joined the Polish Army in the West in the latter stages of the war. He served with distinction in North Africa and in Italy.
After the war he settled in Pollensa on the Spanish island of Majorca, where he died on 22 February 1984. The von Pless line of his family is now headed by his nephew Bolko Graf von Hochberg, 6th Fürst von Pless.Ancestry
