[2] He was a Lieutenant in the 1st Guard Dragoons Regiment and then in the Zieten Hussars, taking part in the wars in 1866 and 1870 to 1871 before retiring from military service as a Major.
Count von Kanitz belonged to the royal court of German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II.
[7] Anton was married to Hélène Boniface Pauline Luise Gräfin von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg (11 July 1847 – 12 February 1931), a daughter of Pauline de Castellane and Count Max von Hatzfeldt,[9] who spent ten years from 1849 to 1859 as the German Minister to France and who signed the Treaty of Paris in 1856 which ended the Crimean War.
[11] Her younger sister, Margarete, was the wife of the German diplomat Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch.
Together, they were the parents of one son and three daughters before their divorce on 28 August 1884, including:[12][13] Count von Kanitz died on 3 January 1922, aged 79.