Background
Max Emanuel was the fourth eldest son of Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and his wife Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria.
Max Emanuel was the fourth eldest son of Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and his wife Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria.
Max Emanuel"s eldest brother was Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Foreign his religious name, he chose Emmeram after Saint Emmeram of Regensburg, patron saint of Saint Emmeram Castle (previously a monastery), the residence of the princely family. In 1951, Max Emanuel received the papal concession for the reestablishment of the former monastery Prüfening Abbey.
Later in the 1950s, he established the Liturgiewissenschaftliche Institut Regensburg-Prüfening (German: Liturgic Scientific Institute Regensburg-Prüfening).
Foreign over 30 years of his life, Max Emanuel resided isolated at the family-owned Saint Emmeram"s Abbey in Regensburg. His desire to revive the monastic life was not fulfilled, however, so he opened Prüfening Abbey as a meeting place and home for the youth and poor.
Max Emanuel died in 1994 and was buried at Neresheim Abbey. Titles and styles 1 March 1902 – 1923: His Serene Highness Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis Honours.
Father Emmeram of Thurn and Taxis OSB, until his profession Prince Max Emanuel Maria Siegfried Joseph Antonius Ignatius Lamoral of Thurn and Taxis (German: Pater Emmeram von Thurn und Taxis OSB. 1 March 1902, Regensburg, Kingdom of Bavaria – 3 October 1994, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Benedictine and member of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis.