Otto von Habsburg, the eldest son of the last Austrian emperor, died aged 98 on Monday at his residence in southern Germany, the family's spokesman told RIA Novosti in a statement.
"We have lost a great European, who impressed and influenced his children for life," Karl Habsburg said in a statement on the passing away of his father.
The statement did not specify the cause of von Hapsburg's death.
Otto von Habsburg was born in 1912, he became head of the imperial House of Habsburg on the death of his father, Emperor Charles, in 1922.
Habsburg will be entombed in the resting place of the Austro-Hungarian monarchs and their family members, the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna, according to the statement sent to RIA Novosti.
