Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg (German: Karl Egon II. Fürst zu Fürstenberg; 28 October 1796 – 22 October 1854) was a German politician and nobleman. From 1804 to 1806 he was the last reigning prince of Furstenburg before its mediatisation, whilst still in his minority. He also served as the first-ever vice-president of the Upper Chamber of the Badische Ständeversammlung.
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He was born in Prague, the only son of the Austrian general Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg and Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis. Soon after his father's death on 25 March 1799 his cousin Charles Gabriel also died aged only fourteen (13 December 1799) - Charles Gabriel had been the last scion of the Bohemian Fürstenberg-Pürglitz line and this left the branch extinct. His uncle Karl Joachim, the last male survivor of the Swabian line, died in 1804, leaving that too extinct. This meant that in 1804 Charles Egon inherited almost all the Fürstenberg possessions except those of Fürstenberg-Taikowitz, the Moravian line which still had surviving issue.