Albrecht Prince of Hohenzollern

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Albrecht Ludwig Leopold Tassilo Prince of Hohenzollern (born September 28, 1898 in Potsdam , † July 30, 1977 in Bühlerhöhe ) was a German major . In his private life he also appeared as a farmer, composer and violinist .

Life

Albrecht was the son of Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern and his wife Josephine of Belgium , daughter of Prince Philippe of Belgium , Count of Flanders (1837-1905) from his marriage to Maria Luise (1845-1912).

After his father's death in 1919, he owned Namedy Castle and had the castle partially rebuilt. He was a member of the German Men's Club .

In the time of National Socialism he belonged to the NSDAP since January 1, 1934 after the list of those party members who are members of princely houses (membership number: 3.289.751, Gau Moselland ).

As a composer he wrote, for example, a piano trio, variations and fugues on a theme of its own, a birthday serenade, a toccata and passacaglia for piano, string quartets and songs based on texts by Theodor Storm , Christian Morgenstern and Heinrich Heine . In 1934 his system-compliant Opus 8 Deutschlands Morgenrot: Du deutsches Volk, nun danke Gott , a patriotic cantata for mixed choir, string orchestra, piano, kettledrum and snare drum and wind instruments ad libitum based on a text by Paul Kassel-Andernach was published. This cantata was praised by Wilhelm Kempff in the magazine for music : “The› Vaterländische Cantata ‹grabbed me the first time I heard it. This is not an occasional composition, it is a work that really elevates and convinces, because it was born from a German soul. "

During the Second World War , Albrecht von Hohenzollern was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was a. a. deployed on the Eastern Front, in the territory of the USSR . As the uncle of the Romanian King Michael I , he was deployed as a major in the German Army Mission in Romania . Here he was taken prisoner in 1944. In 1946 he was transferred from a prisoner of war camp in Bucharest to the MWD camp No. 69 for prisoners of war who were to be deported to the USSR near Frankfurt / Oder. He managed to be released under an assumed name.

He died in 1977 in the Bühlerhöhe sanatorium.

Marriage and offspring

On May 29, 1921, in Potsdam, he married Ilse Margot von Friedeburg (1901–1988), daughter of Friedrich von Friedeburg , with whom he had five children:

  • Josephine Wilhelme (1922-2006)
⚭ 1967 Harald Graf von Posadowsky-Wehner (1910–1990)
  • Luise-Dorothea (1924–1988)
⚭ 1947 Egbert Graf von Plettenberg (1917–1995)
  • Rose-Margarethe (1930-2005)
⚭ 1955 Edgar Pfersdorf (1920–1997)
⚭ 1971 Heide Hansen (* 1943)

Compositions (selection)

  • op. 3 Trio for piano, violin and cello in F major
  • op. 8 Deutschlands Morgenrot: You German people, now thank God , patriotic cantata for mixed choir, string orchestra, piano, timpani and snare drum and wind instruments ad libitum
  • op.13 Four songs based on folk rhymes and a Uhland text, for voice and piano (published on record)
  • Op. 16 Variations and Fugue on a separate theme for pianoforte
  • op.16b Variations and Fugue on an own theme, arrangement for 2 pianos (1956)
  • Op. 18 String Quartet No. 1, C minor
  • op.23 Im Grase for voice, flute, violoncello and piano (Namedy am Rhein: Burg-Verlag)
  • op. 25 Six songs for voice and piano based on texts by Theodor Storm (publisher: LinkBurg Namedy a. Rhein [195-?])
  • op.31 Suite in the old style in F major for violoncello and piano (Edmund Bieler publishing house, Cologne 1962)
  • op.34 Birthday Serenade, String Trio in D major for 2 violins and viola (1946)
  • op. 35 Six songs for voice and piano based on texts by Christian Morgenstern
  • op.36a & b Toccata and Passacaglia for piano
  • op. 39 Second String Quartet in E flat major

Publications

  • King Carol I and his time. In: Hohenzollern yearbook. 20, 1960, pp. 1-38.
  • Five popular love songs. For a voice, violin, cello and piano . Edmund Bieler Publishing House, Cologne 1976.
  • Old style suite. For violoncello and piano . Edmund Bieler Publishing House, Cologne 1976.
  • Albrecht Prince of Hohenzollern, Ingeborg von Schönermark (Ed.): Wheat in a violin case. Memories and encounters. (Autobiography posthumously ). Bouvier, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02819-8 .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 262.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945. CD-Rom Lexicon. Kiel 2004, pp. 3168, 8504.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical page .
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 262.
  3. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. CD-Rom Lexicon. Kiel 2004, p. 3168.
  4. ^ Quotation from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. CD-Rom Lexicon. Kiel 2004, p. 3168.
  5. ^ Markus Schmitz, Bernd Haunfelder : Humanity and Diplomacy. Switzerland in Cologne. Aschendorff, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-05385-3 , pp. 226-227. The news that he had been arrested after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , turned out to be false. His wife's sister, Friedeburg Lindemann, the wife of general and resistance fighter Fritz Lindemann , was arrested in his country estate, Burg Namedy .
  6. ^ Soviet special camps in Germany from 1945 to 1950. Volume 2, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-003244-8 , pp. 251-252.
  7. ↑ worldcat.org
  8. ↑ worldcat.org
  9. ↑ Klassika.info
  10. ↑ worldcat.org
personal data
SURNAME Hohenzollern, Prince Albrecht of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenzollern, Albrecht Ludwig Leopold Tassilo Prince of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1977
Place of death Bühlerhöhe