Joseph Wenzel, Prince of Fürstenberg

Joseph Wenzel zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (21 March 1728 - 2 June 1783) was a German nobleman and from 1762 to 1783 the sixth ruling Prince of Fürstenberg.

He set up a zuchthaus in Hüfingen and stopped his father's industrialisation policy and made resettlement difficult, since he saw industry as immoral - he preferred home handiwork such as watchmaking.

He was made director of the Swabian College of Reichsgrafen and in 1775 the Holy Roman Emperor appointed him a major general (with his rank effective from 1765).

In 1762 he began building a private chapel at his court at Donaueschingen, and bringing a number of foreign musicians to man it.

[2] In 1766 Leopold Mozart and his son Wolfgang Amadeus spent around two weeks at the Donaueschingen Palace as Joseph Wenzel's guest.