page_title: Alexander Tschugguel
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Tschugguel / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stammwappen der Freiherren von Tschugguel
context_page_description: Baron Alexander von Tschugguel zu Tramin, known in Austria as Alexander Tschugguel, is an Austrian conservative political and Traditionalist Catholic activist. He has been active in the anti-abortion movement, critical of the international community's focus on climate change, and has campaigned against same-sex marriage in Austria and Germany. Tschugguel is a founding member of The Reform Conservatives, a now-inactive Austrian conservative political party focused on abolishing the European Parliament.
  In November 2019 Tschugguel received international attention for stealing statues, reportedly of Pachamama, that were on display inside the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina as part of the Amazon Synod, and throwing them off of the Ponte Sant'Angelo into the river Tiber.
  In March 2020 Tschugguel contracted SARS-CoV-2 during the coronavirus pandemic in Austria. He recovered a few weeks later after having been hospitalized in Vienna.
context_section_description: Tschugguel was born in 1993 in Vienna and is a member of the von Tschugguel family, an old Tyrolean family that are part of the Austrian nobility. The family, originally of knightly status, was elevated to baronial status in 1705. His father, Walter Tschugguel, is a doctor in Vienna. Tschugguel was baptized and raised in the Lutheran faith. The Tschugguel family was historically Roman Catholic, until Tschugguel's great-grandfather converted to Lutheranism from Catholicism. When he was fifteen years old, Tschugguel converted to Roman Catholicism. He is a Traditionalist Catholic and attends the Tridentine Mass with the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.
  Tschugguel was married in 2019 in a wedding celebrated by Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana.
  In March 2020, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, Taylor Marshall reported that Tschugguel had contracted SARS-CoV-2, was "in a bad way," and had been hospitalized. He was hospitalized at Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital in Vienna and recovered a few weeks later.
caption: Coat of Arms of the Tschugguel family
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