Count Maria Friedrich-Carl Lazarus Emanuel Franz Johannes Henckel von Donnersmarck (27 May 1905 – 1 September 1989) was a German philosopher and landowner.
In 1945, during the flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II, his castle, Schloss Romolkwitz, was burned to the ground by the Soviet Army.
[1] Henckel von Donnersmarck had a doctorate in philosophy and, as a scholastic philosopher, he specialized in studying the works and theology of Thomas Aquinas.
[2] Henckel von Donnersmarck's properties and assets were seized by the Soviets as Silesia fell under the Iron Curtain at the end of the war.
[2] He and his family, as Silesian-Germans, were forced to leave their home due to the Soviet Army's expulsion of Germans from Poland, and became refugees in Bavaria, West Germany, where they lived for five years.