Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

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Portrait of Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1864)

Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (born August 16, 1801 at Wittgenstein Castle ; † April 7, 1874 ibid) was a German nobleman .

Live and act

Alexander Karl August Franz Ludwig was born on August 16, 1801 as the second child of Prince Friedrich Karl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and his wife Friederike, daughter of Prince August II of Schwarzburg zu Sondershausen and Princess Christine of Anhalt-Bernburg at Wittgenstein Castle born. After his older brother Friedrich (1798–1868) left for a successor due to illness, Alexander became Hereditary Prince of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Alexander began studying administrative science ( Cameralia ) on March 31, 1819 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg and on April 14, 1820, moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . He was the first Wittgensteiner at the University of Bonn, founded in 1818.

During his summer semester at the University of Bonn, a friendship developed between Prince Alexander and the later poet Heinrich Heine , who studied law and cameralia in Bonn under his maiden name Harry Heine from 1819. Heine and Prince Alexander left the University of Bonn in the fall of 1820. As a farewell, on September 15, 1820, Heine wrote the poem "Lebensgruss" to Prince Alexander in his family book. Heine published the verses in 1822 in the edition "Gedichte" under the title " To Alexander, Pr. Von W ". While Heine went to the University of Göttingen , Prince Alexander returned to the University of Heidelberg in the winter semester 1820/21.

After the death of his father Friedrich Karl in 1837, Alexander became the second Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein to succeed him. During his reign u. a. the replacement of the real loads with which the Wittgenstein farmers could become owners of their previously lent goods, but also the conversion of the run-down forest and the large-scale introduction of the spruce in Wittgenstein, which his head of the Wittgenstein Rent Chamber, Oberforstrat Louis Reuss , was hired away from the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg , caused.

As the owner of the formerly imperial county Wittgenstein (part of Hohenstein), Alexander was a hereditary member of the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia since 1837 . He was a member of the gentlemen's curia of the first and in 1848 of the second United State Parliament . As a registrar he was allowed to be represented at provincial parliaments. In 1841 Clemens von Ketteler took part in the state parliament for him. Since 1854 he was a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house . From 1838 to 1874 he was honorary president of the Wittgenstein agricultural district association . In addition, since November 12, 1851 - the death of the reigning Prince Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Alexander was also the senior of the Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein .

family

Hereditary Prince Alexander married on June 3, 1828 in Rheda Amalie Luise (born February 16, 1802 in Rheda, † June 15, 1887 in Frankfurt / Main), the daughter of Count Friedrich Christian Wilhelm August zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda and his wife Wilhelmine Elise Karoline, b. Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. The marriage had 12 children:

  • Mathilde (* May 2, 1829; † September 26, 1857) ⚭ March 30, 1856 with Freiherr Friedrich von Vincke (* August 24, 1830; † June 29, 1895)
  • Emma (May 30, 1830 - April 28, 1840)
  • Ludwig (1831-1912)
  • Alexander Karl (born May 29, 1833; † November 17, 1907) ⚭ January 10, 1872 in morganatic marriage with Therese Huber (born August 14, 1848 Landshut)
  • Agnes (April 18, 1834 - February 18, 1886) ⚭ August 3, 1858 with Adalbert Graf zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (February 19, 1833 - July 24, 1893)
  • Karl Georg (born July 16, 1835 - † January 26, 1908)
  • Ida (* February 25, 1837; † May 7, 1922) ⚭ October 18, 1887 with Adalbert Graf zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (after the death of sister Agnes)
  • Wilhelm (January 19, 1839 - January 7, 1894)
  • Adolf (born January 19, 1839 - † June 30, 1872)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (born October 18, 1840 - † October 8, 1934) August 1 4, 1876 in a morganatic marriage with Elisa von Manstein
  • Thekla (born July 3, 1842 - † January 19, 1925)
  • Hermann (* June 23, 1845; † October 30, 1921) ⚭ January 25, 1875 with Gertrude Westenberger.

Prince Alexander died at the age of 72. He left behind his wife and nine grown children.

His successor was the third child, the first-born son, Hereditary Prince Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1831-1912).

Alexander's eldest grandson August zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , knowing the friendship between Heine and his grandfather, contributed to the fact that the entire Heine collection of the Düsseldorf State and City Library could be relocated to Wittgenstein Castle in autumn 1943 and saved.

literature

  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 538.
  • Family tree of the mediatized house Sayn and Wittgenstein 1907 , Unchanged reprint from 1907, Heimat-Verlag und Antiquariat Angelika Wied, Bad Laasphe 2009, No. 9/100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Matriculation No. 425: "Prince von Sayn-Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein, Westphalia, son of Prince Friedrich von Sayn-W., Cameralia") https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/matrikel1807 / 0174 / image
  2. ↑ (Matriculation No. 231: "Alexander Fürst zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, from Wittgenstein, son of the ruling Prince, University of Heidelberg, Cameralia, Protestant) Source: Hans Bernd Spies, Kirchen In: Zeitschrift Wittgenstein, Volume 60, 1972 Vol. 36, H. 1.
  3. ↑ Hans-Bernd Spies: The first Wittgensteiner students at the University of Bonn In: Zeitschrift Wittgenstein, year 62, June 1974, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 75.
  4. ↑ Hans-Bernd Spies: Heine and Prince Alexander In: Zeitschrift Wittgenstein, Volume 60, 1972, Vol. 36, Issue 1, p. 38.
  5. ↑ Heine wrote on July 15, 1820 in a letter to his fellow student Friedrich von Beughem: Steinmann, a Jew, a poet, the Prince Witgenstein (sic!) And his court master are now all my company . Source: Hans-Bernd Spies: In: Heine and Alexander , Zeitschrift Wittgenstein, vol. 60, 1972, vol. 38, no. 1, p. 38.
  6. ↑ (Matriculation No. 164, "18 years, registered on October 24, 1820); accompanied (M-No. 165) by August Gebauer, 28 years, from Knobelsdorf / Saxony, Dr. beyderrechte, der Weltweisheit and councilor , Law, came from the University of Bonn "(page 196) https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/matrikel1807/0202 Last accessed: October 10, 2018, 2 p.m.
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel : Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Victories 1858.
  8. ↑ Ev. Laasphe church register, burials 1848–1896, no. 14/1874, inspection on October 10, 2018
  9. ↑ Hermann Reuter: The rescue of the Heine collection . Reprint of the publication from Rheinische Post, No. 99, December 13, 1947 In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein, vol. 87, September 1999, Vol. 63, H. 3, pp. 101-103.
  10. ↑ Holger Weber: The Prince and the Poet. In: Siegener Zeitung from November 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Alexander zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Alexander Prince zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittgenstein Castle
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1874
Place of death Wittgenstein Castle