Aribert von Anhalt
Aribert Joseph Alexander von Anhalt (born June 18, 1864 in Wörlitz , † December 24, 1933 in Munich ) was regent of the Duchy of Anhalt .
Life
Aribert was the son of Duke Friedrich I von Anhalt-Dessau and his wife Princess Antoinette , daughter of Prince Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg . Aribert, a personal friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II. , Appeared in the so-called Kotze affair as a public prosecutor and, at the behest of the Kaiser, was to apologize to Leberecht von Kotze in writing after his acquittal.
Aribert married on July 6, 1891 at Windsor Castle Marie Luise , daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and granddaughter of Queen Victoria . The marriage was personally initiated by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who also announced the engagement, was present at the wedding as best man and helped out the young couple with considerable funds. The marriage became extremely unhappy, as there was soon no longer any doubt about Aribert's homosexuality and Marie Luise developed dangerous anorexia . The divorce on December 13, 1900 was the subject of diplomatic activity between the German Empire and the United Kingdom. Aribert's father-in-law threatened to turn to the Federal Council with the reasons for the divorce, which Kaiser Wilhelm prevented. After the divorce, Marie Luise demonstratively took her maiden name again.
In 1894 Aribert became chairman of the committee for the participation of Germany in the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , later president of the committee for the participation of Germany in the Olympic Games in Paris . It was only thanks to his membership of the German aristocracy that he was able to successfully assert himself against the German gymnastics association, which opposed the French Olympic Games , and ensure German participation.
During the First World War Aribert worked as a stage manager and received on 22 March 1918 character as a major general .
In 1918 Aribert took over the reign in the Duchy of Anhalt for his underage nephew Joachim Ernst , for whom he renounced the throne on November 12, 1918. On December 30, 1918, the former Prince Regent and representative of the Free State of Anhalt founded the "Joachim Ernst Foundation", whose task was to maintain the palaces and gardens in Dessau.
The Aribertstrasse in Köthen and Osternienburg are named after the prince .
ancestors
| Pedigree of Prince Aribert von Anhalt (1864–1933) | ||||||||
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| Great grandparents |
Hereditary Prince |
Prince |
Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1763–1834) |
Prince Karl (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) (1785–1853) |
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| Grandparents |
Duke Leopold IV of Anhalt-Dessau (1794–1871) |
Prince Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg (1804–1852) |
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| parents |
Duke Friedrich I (Anhalt) (1831–1904) |
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Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1864–1933) |
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literature
- John CG Röhl : Wilhelm II. Volume 2 , p. 740 f .
- Martin Kohlrausch : The monarch in a scandal . The logic of the mass media and the transformation of the Wilhelmine monarchy. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004020-3 .
- Ralf Regener: The year of the three dukes in Anhalt, 1918. in: Saxony-Anhalt. Journal für Natur- und Heimatfreunde 25 (2015), H. 1, S. 19-21.
- Ralf Regener: The fall of the Ascanians in Anhalt in 1918. Conditions, course and aftermath of the fall of a small German monarchy. 2nd, corrected edition, Dessau-Roßlau 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Man for man . Swarm of men, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928983-65-2 .
- ↑ Roland S. Kamzelak and Ulrich Ott (ed.): Count Harry Kessler . The diary 1880–1937. Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, p. 85-7 .
- ^ Horst Geyer: Olympic Games 1896-1996 . A German political issue. Agenda, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-929440-79-2 , p. 13 .
- ↑ Helmut Westphal: Dr. Willibald Gebhardt - a victim of his peace work? (PDF; 478 kB) In: Contributions to the history of sports issue 1/1995. Pp. 77-78 , accessed November 17, 2011 .
- ^ Arnd Krüger : Neo-Olympism between nationalism and internationalism. In: Horst Ueberhorst (Ed.): History of physical exercises. Volume 3/1, Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1980, pp. 522-568.
- ^ Military weekly paper . No. 114/115 of March 23, 1918, p. 2767.
- ^ Duchy of Anhalt history. In: Duchy of Anhalt (1863-1918). Ralph Anton, accessed November 17, 2011 .
- ↑ 90 years of the Joachim Ernst Foundation - DessauWörlitz Cultural Foundation. (No longer available online.) Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, archived from the original on December 11, 2011 ; Retrieved November 17, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Aribert von Anhalt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aribert Joseph Alexander von Anhalt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Regent of the Duchy of Anhalt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1933 |
| Place of death | Munich |