Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg
Eduard Karl Wilhelm Christian von Sachsen-Altenburg (born July 3, 1804 in Hildburghausen , † May 16, 1852 in Munich ) was a Prince of Sachsen-Hildburghausen (from 1826 Prince of Sachsen-Altenburg ), Bavarian lieutenant general and commander of the cavalry division of I. Army Corps in Munich.
Life
Eduard was the youngest son of Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1763-1834) (since 1826 Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg) from his marriage to Charlotte (1769-1818), daughter of Duke Karl II. Ludwig von Mecklenburg-Strelitz . His godfather was, among others, Duke Edward of Kent , the father of Queen Victoria .
Eduard entered the Bavarian military service as Rittmeister in the 6th Chevauleg regiment " Herzog Leuchtenberg ". Eventually he became the owner of the 1st Chevauleger Regiment . At the head of a Bavarian military contingent, he accompanied his nephew Otto , the son of his sister Therese, Queen of Bavaria , to Greece and became governor of Nauplia .
After his return to Bavaria in 1834, he continued to serve in the Bavarian army and was in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade from April 27, 1841 to March 30, 1848 . In the meantime, Eduard had been knighted in the Order of Hubert in 1844 . In the Schleswig-Holstein War he fought as leader of the Bavarian Army with other Thuringian princes on the side of the German Confederation and distinguished himself in the conquest of the Düppeler Schanzen . He was then appointed as a lieutenant general on November 18, 1848, commander of the cavalry division of the 1st Army Corps in Munich. He held this position until September 30, 1851.
He was a close friend of his brother-in-law Ludwig I of Bavaria , with whom he had extensive written correspondence. From 1843 Eduard was chairman of the Munich Association against Cruelty to Animals .
He was financially supported by his sister Therese , to whom he was very close throughout his life, especially in the Lola Montez affair , which enabled him to buy a house in Munich. Together with Therese, he had inherited the Seidingstadt hunting lodge , for which he had his sister paid off.
Eduard died in Munich and was buried in the Altenburg royal crypt.
progeny
Eduard's first marriage was on July 25, 1835 in Sigmaringen Amalie (1815–1841), daughter of Prince Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , with whom he had the following children:
- Therese (1836-1914)
- ⚭ 1864 Prince August of Sweden , Duke of Dalekarlien (1831–1873)
- Antoinette (1838-1908)
- ⚭ 1854 Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt (1831–1904)
- Ludwig (1839–1844)
- Johann (1841–1844)
Edward's second marriage to Luise (1822–1875), daughter of Prince Heinrich XIX. Reuss zu Greiz, whom he married on March 8, 1842 in Greiz, had two children:
- Albert (1843-1902)
- ⚭ 1. 1885 Princess Marie of Prussia (1855–1888)
- ⚭ 2. 1891 Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg (1857–1936)
- Marie (1845-1930)
- ⚭ 1869 Prince Karl Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1830–1909)
ancestors
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literature
- Heinrich Ferdinand Schoeppl: The dukes of Saxony-Altenburg. Bozen 1917, reprint Altenburg 1992, pp. 190–191.
- Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. (= Munich historical studies. Department of Bavarian History, Volume 1). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955.
- Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Year 30, 1852, Voigt, Ilmenau [ao] 1854.
Web links
- Eduard . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 5 . Altenburg 1858, p. 481-483 ( zeno.org ).
- Estate in the Bavarian State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Ross: Memories and Communications from Greece. R. Gaertner, 1863, p. 49.
- ↑ Martin Cohn: From the Elbe to the Tauber. The campaign of the Prussian Main Army in the German War. Velhagen & Klasing, 1868, p. 101.
- ↑ Deutsche Viertel-Jahrsschrift, Volume 22, Issues 3–4 , p. 43. ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eduard von Sachsen-Hildburghausen; Eduard Karl Wilhelm Christian of Saxe-Altenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince of Saxony-Hildburghausen, Prince of Saxony-Altenburg, Governor of Nauplia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildburghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1852 |
| Place of death | Munich |