place where he spent much of his free time. During the Universal Exhibition in Vienna in 1873, he attended with his father the presentation of the successes achieved by the Schwarzenbergs in agriculture, forestry and fish farming in southern Bohemia. After his father's death in 1888, Adolfo Giuseppe took the reins of management of his family's entire immense land heritage. A great lover of agriculture, he willingly dedicated himself to other side activities such as hunting, building distilleries, breweries and dairies. In 1892 he opened the Louny brewery which soon became one of the most modern breweries in Austria-Hungary, also involving chemists and experts to best produce beer and seek innovative nuances in taste and colour. During the period of his regency he began a vast work of cataloging and conservation of the historical monuments of southern Bohemia in which he took part due to his great interest in history (like his father), as well as being interested in archaeology, patronizing the Academy Bohemian of Sciences in his research on his lands. He was, among other things, a friend of the scholar František Palacký. On a conceptual level, as a Bohemian even before being a subject of the Austro-Hungarian crown to whom his family owed much of its fortune, Prince Adolf Joseph was a supporter of the need for good relations between Czechs and Germans, insisting however on the fact that that of authority should be preferable to the political concept of nationality, as well as a meritocratic assignment of government positions. He completely denied any manifestation of nationalism, whether on the part of the Germans or the Bohemians. For example, he refused to contribute to a monument dedicated to Emperor Joseph II in Ceský Krumlov because he considered it excessively nationalistic on the part of the Germans in a land that ultimately did not belong to them. In 1865 he was elected district governor in Vodnany. In 1872 he was elected mayor of the Netolice district, but in this second election he did not have the approval of the emperor, precisely because of his political ideas. In the provincial elections of January 1867 he became a member of the Bohemian parliament, being re-elected in August 1868, always sitting in the ranks of the conservatives, defending the rural communities of Bohemia. He continued his activity in the Bohemian Chamber until 4 December 1888 when, after the death of his father and obtaining the title of Prince of Schwarzenberg, he was hired into the upper chamber, replacing his parent in this position.