Anton Aloys (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)

Prince Anton Aloys

Anton Aloys Meinrad Franz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born June 20, 1762 in Sigmaringen , † October 17, 1831 in Sigmaringen) was the seventh prince and the first sovereign prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .

Life

Anton Aloys was the son of Prince Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1724–1785) from his marriage to Johanna (1727–1787), daughter of Count Franz Wilhelm von Hohenzollern-Berg . The prince was born during the Seven Years 'War and grew up mainly in ' s-Heerenberg on his mother's Dutch estates. His father took part in the war, so his mother stayed with her brother there. He was later trained at the Universities of Freiburg , Heidelberg and Ingolstadt . On August 13, 1782, he married Amalie Zephyrine (1760–1841), daughter of Prince Philipp Joseph zu Salm-Kyrburg, in Dhaun Castle .

In 1785 he succeeded his father and two years later, when his mother died, he inherited the rich Dutch holdings of the county of Bergh-s'Heerenberg . In 1789 the Brabant Revolution took place in the Austrian Netherlands , which Anton Aloys followed closely because of his possessions there. At the coronation of Emperor Leopold II from the House of Habsburg-Lothringen in 1790 , Anton Aloys held the office of hereditary treasurer of the empire. When the coalition war broke out , Anton Aloys fled to Vienna and returned in 1796. France received from Germany the areas on the left bank of the Rhine. In 1802 Anton Aloys lost all of his Dutch possessions. In return, he received the rule Glatt in the northern Black Forest and the secularized monasteries Inzigkofen , Beuron and Holzen .

The prince joined the Rhine Confederation in 1806 under the guarantee of complete sovereignty over his country . Politics in southern Germany was determined by the French. The relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte turned out to be profitable for the Swabian Hohenzollerns, although they had to recognize Napoleon's hegemony . There were some marital ties between his family and imperial France. Anton Aloys received from Napoleon the dominions of Achberg and Hohenfels as well as full sovereignty over all knightly areas of his country. At the Congress of Vienna , in which Anton Aloys took part in 1814, his sovereignty was recognized and he was also given back his previous possessions in Bavaria and the Netherlands for his house. In 1815 the principality became a member of the German Confederation . Overall, Anton Aloys always had a very provincial perspective. His grandson Karl Anton zu Hohenzollern described this with the words that the prince “did not know how to see a wide horizon”.

Between 1815 and 1817, under Anton Aloys, the so-called “Fruchtkasten” of Sigmaringen Castle was converted into a five-story cavalier building, the so-called “Wilhelmsbau”.

He was the bearer of the " Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Two Sicilies ", "Knight of the Royal Prussian Black and Red Eagle Order " and the "Royal Bavarian St. Hubert Order " as well as owner of the Kreis-Kürassier-Regiment (Catholic) of the Swabian Empire .

progeny

From his marriage to Amalie Zephyrine, Anton Aloys had the following children:

• Son (* / † 1783)
• Karl (1785–1853), Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

⚭ 1. 1808 Princess Antoinette Murat (1793–1847)

⚭ 2. 1848 Princess Katharina zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1817–1893)

literature

• Fidelis Baur: History of the Hechingen and Sigmaringen states of Hohenzollern. From the earliest times up to our day, thoroughly edited according to the sources. Bucher and Liener, Sigmaringen 1834, p. 57ff.
• Otto Hintze : The Hohenzollern and their work 1415-1915. Verlag A. Steiger, Solingen 1982, ISBN 3-921564-18-2 .
• Gustav Schilling: History of the House of Hohenzollern in genealogically continuous biographies of all its rulers from the oldest to the most recent times, according to documents and other authentic sources. Fleischer, Leipzig 1843, p. 292ff.
• Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Volume 10, part 1. Voigt, Ilmenau 1832, ZDB -ID 516094-7 , p. 914ff.
• Günter Schmitt : Sigmaringen . In: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 41-62.
• Eugen Schnell: Anton Aloys von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Life and work of a good prince, a noble person, a true man of the people. On the 25th anniversary of October 17, 1831. Liehner, Sigmaringen 1856, online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ also Alois
2. ^ From Paris to Krauchenwies - Migration in the service of the dynasty using the example of Antoinette Murat . Lecture by Carmen Ziwes on November 25, 2010 in Krauchenwies
3. ↑ Prince is happy about the Order of the Two Sicilies . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 14, 2009
4. ↑ See also Troops of the Swabian Reichskreis # Regiments 1694 to 1791

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Friedrich	Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1785–1831	Karl