Augusta Marie Gertrude from Hanau

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Princess Augusta Marie Gertrude von Hanau

Augusta Marie Gertrude von Hanau (born September 21, 1829 in Niederdorfelden , † September 18, 1887 in Halle ) was the illegitimate eldest daughter of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel (1802–1875) and his 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 got divorced and married her in 1831. Augusta Marie Gertrude was born at a time when her mother was still a married Lehmann. She was therefore first recognized as legitimate by her mother's then husband. It was only after Gertrude Lehmann's divorce and marriage to the Prince Elector that Karl Michael Lehmann renounced his paternity rights. Augusta Marie Gertrude Lehmann was raised by her biological father to Countess Schaumburg and later to Princess of Hanau.

On July 17, 1849 she married Count Ferdinand-Maximilian III. zu Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach (* October 24, 1823 - May 5, 1903). This was probably a bit mentally disturbed. After a Kassel newspaper in 1853 had titled his wife “Erlaucht” instead of “Serene Highness”, he physically attacked the first minister of his father-in-law, Ludwig Hassenpflug , and injured him with blows with a stick. He was then temporarily taken to a clinic. In 1865 he was elevated to the rank of prince by the elector and was now called Ferdinand-Maximillian I.

Princess Augusta Marie Gertrude had a very close relationship with her father. When he was incarcerated as a prisoner of war in Stettin in 1866 after the war he had lost against Prussia , she visited him.

She died in Halle, where she had accompanied her husband, who had to undergo an operation there.

literature

  • Rüdiger Ham: Ludwig Hassenpflug: statesman and lawyer between revolution and reaction. A political biography = studies on historical research in modern times 50. Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8300-2764-5
  • 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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So: Losch; other sources name Frankfurt am Main and Hochstadt , see: Huberty, p. 223, note 1.
personal data
SURNAME Hanau, Augusta Marie Gertrude from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isenburg-Wächtersbach, Augusta Marie Gertrude von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederdorfelden
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1887
Place of death Hall