Alexandrine Friedrike Wilhelmine von Hanau

Alexandrine Friedrike Wilhelmine von Hanau (born December 22, 1830 in Fulda , † December 20, 1871 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ) was the illegitimate, second eldest daughter of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel (1802-1875) and his first later wife Gertrude , later Princess of Hanau and Hořowitz (1803-1882).

Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm met his wife when she was still married to Lieutenant Karl Michael Lehmann (1787–1882), committed adultery with her, finally achieved a divorce and married her in 1831. Alexandrine Friedrike Wilhelmine was born at a time when her mother was still a married Lehmann. It is therefore said to have initially carried the name of Reifenberg . After the divorce from her first husband and the marriage with the electoral prince, Alexandrine Friedrike Wilhelmine was raised by her biological father to Countess Schaumburg and later to Princess of Hanau.

On June 12, 1851, she married Prince Felix von Hohenlohe-Öhringen (March 1, 1818 - September 8, 1900) at Wilhelmshöhe Castle , who, however, did not bring much into the marriage apart from his title and was in constant financial need. After Alexandrine's father was deposed as elector by the Prussians in 1866 , she received a pension of 3,000 thalers from the Guelph Fund .

She last lived in Heidelberg and Lindau, where she died giving birth to her youngest son in 1871. In 1884 she was buried next to her mother in Kassel .

literature

• Michel Huberty: L'Allemagne dynastique: Les 15 familles qui ont fait l'empire . Vol. 1: Hesse - Reuss - Saxe. Le Perreux-sur-Marne 1976. ISBN 2-901138-01-2 .
• Philipp Losch: The Princess of Hanau and her children . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 13 (1939), p. 33 f.