Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg

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Princess Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, later Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein, photographed by Camille Silvy , 1860

Princess Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , full name Adelheid Victoria Amalie Louise Maria Konstanze zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (* July 20, 1835 in Langenburg ; † January 25, 1900 in Dresden ) was a member of the Hohenlohe family and by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein and mother of the last German Empress.

Life

Princess Adelheid with her mother, lithograph by Richard James Lane, 1841

Adelheid was the second daughter of six children of Prince Ernst I zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794-1860) and his wife of Princess Feodora zu Leiningen (1807-1872), only daughter of Prince Emich Carl and his second wife of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld . Her grandmother married Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn , the fourth son of King George III, in May 1818 . from Great Britain and Ireland ; they were the parents of the future Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

The French Emperor Napoleon III. (1808–1873) held for Adelheid's hand in 1852 after his marriage proposal to Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp had been rejected. The background was, among other things, that France could have developed closer ties to England, since Adelheid was Queen Victoria's niece. This prevented Adelheid's marriage to the 27-year-old emperor.

On September 11, 1856 married Princess Adelheid in Langenburg Duke Friedrich VIII. Of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-August Castle (1829-1880), the eldest son of Duke Christian August and his cousin (second degree) of the Danish Countess Louise Sophie of Danneskjold -Samsøe. The marriage, which all reports said was harmonious, had seven children:

Left to right: Caroline Mathilde, Auguste Viktoria , Louise Sophie and Ernst Günther , CDV from August Linde, Gotha around 1869
⚭ 1881 Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , later German Emperor and King of Prussia
  • Victoria Friederike Augusta Maria Caroline Mathilde (1860–1932)
⚭ 1885 Duke Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
  • Friedrich Victor Leopold Christian Gerhard (* / † 1862)
  • Ernst Günther (1863–1921), (titular) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
⚭ 1898 Princess Dorothea of ​​Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
⚭ 1889 Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia

In 1867, the Chancellor took Otto von Bismarck , the annexation of the duchies as a province of Schleswig-Holstein in the Kingdom of Prussia . Adelheid moved with her family back to Primkenau , where Friedrich VIII. After the death of his father in 1869 managed the Augustburg estates of Primkenau as well as an estate in Sweden and Gravenstein Castle that he had received back. Adelheid's husband died in 1880; Adelheid died in Dresden in 1900 and was buried in Primkenau Castle.

Honors

The Adelheid Island ( Russian Остров Аделаиды ) in Franz-Joseph-Land was discovered in the Arctic Ocean in 1872/73 by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition (popularly also called Payer-Weyprecht Expedition) and named in honor of the Duchess Adelheid.

literature

  • Ghislaine de Diesbach: Secrets of the Gotha, translated from the French by Margaret Crosland, London: Chapman & Hall, 134-136 (1967)
  • Karl Heinz Wocker: Queen Victoria. The history of an age , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich (1983) ISBN 3-453-55072-2
  • Johannes Heinrich Gebauer : Duke Friedrich VIII of Schleswig-Holstein. A picture of life . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart et al. 1912
  • Dieter Wolf: Duke Friedrich von Augustenburg - a German prince outwitted by Bismarck in 1864? . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-35135-6 (plus dissertation, University of Hamburg 1999)

Web links

Commons : Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 1, 1901, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Adelheid Victoria Amalie Louise Maria Konstanze to; Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Adelheid von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1900
Place of death Dresden