Auguste von Prillwitz

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Auguste Arend , since 1825 Auguste von Prillwitz (born July 10, 1801 ; † May 26, 1834 in Berlin ), was the second companion of Prince August of Prussia (1779–1843), a nephew of Frederick II of Prussia .

Life

Auguste Arend was the daughter of a Jewish money changer and rentier . Around 1818, shortly after her father's death, she met Prince August of Prussia, who had separated from his first partner Karoline Friederike Wichmann (1781–1844), and entered into a liaison with him . Their first daughter Malwine was born in June 1819. In the same year, Auguste Arend moved with her mother and child into Rheinsberg Castle , which Prince August had inherited from his father in 1813. She was assigned a companion who was responsible for the “physical or moral well-being of the young lady”. In 1821, Prince August bought the Prillwitz estate in Pomerania to furnish his daughter . Auguste Arend only stayed there in the summer months, she spent the rest of the time in Rheinsberg and Berlin . There she could be reached more quickly for the prince.

After the birth of their second child at the beginning of the year, she and the children were born on July 12, 1825 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. raised by Prussia to the Prussian nobility with the name "von Prillwitz". While she had five more children in the following years, her health deteriorated. She may have had tuberculosis . Two trips to Italy in 1832 and 1833 brought no improvement. Treatment by three doctors, including Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , was also unsuccessful. She died in her apartment on Leipziger Strasse in Berlin in 1834 and was buried in the Prillwitz Church. Around 1835 her coffin and the coffins of two children who died young were brought to a mausoleum in the manor park that was furnished and probably also designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

progeny

If Auguste von Prillwitz and Prince August von Prussia also lived in a marriage-like relationship for many years, in this case one should not speak of an morganatic marriage , since nothing is known of a marriage. Their children together, ennobled as von Prillwitz , were:

  • Malwine (born June 10, 1819 in Berlin, † November 3, 1888 in Rome ), nobility rise on July 12, 1825, married to Caesar von Dachröden
  • Ferdinand (born January 10, 1825 in Berlin, † February 25, 1849 in Koblenz ), elected nobility on July 12, 1825
  • Elisabeth / Elise (born June 23, 1827 in Berlin, † December 22, 1854 in Rome), elected nobility on December 3, 1828, married to Harry von Arnim since 1846
  • August (* July 13, 1828 in Berlin; † May 27, 1835 Prillwitz), nobility rise on December 3, 1828
  • Ludwig (* July 23, 1829 in Berlin; † May 31, 1894 ibid), elected nobility on October 26, 1829 ∞ Georgine Marie Elisabeth Eugenie (* December 23, 1835 - January 7, 1899), daughter of Karl von Moltke
  • Marie (born September 3, 1830 in Berlin; † May 1, 1831 ibid), nobility rise on November 16, 1830
  • Klara (born October 21, 1831 in Berlin; † July 24, 1883 in Wiesbaden ), elected nobility on December 17, 1831, married to the landowner Gustav von Arnim (1820–1904), member of the Prussian manor house

coat of arms

Divided, above in black a silver star between two silver wings, below in blue a golden lock (Prillwitz); on the helmet with blue and gold blankets on the right and red and gold on the left, three silver ostrich feathers between an open black flight.

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personal data
SURNAME Prillwitz, Auguste von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arend, Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Life companion of Prince August of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1801
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1834
Place of death Berlin