Emich to Leiningen

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Feodora and Emich zu Leiningen around 1894

Emich Eduard Carl Prince of Leiningen (born January 18, 1866 in Osborne House ; † July 18, 1939 in Schloßau ) was the fifth Prince of Leiningen and a German civil registry lord .

origin

Emich zu Leiningen from the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg line was the son of Prince Ernst zu Leiningen and Princess Marie Amalie, born Princess of Baden . Due to his mother's ancestry, he was also on the list of heir to the throne of Sweden . He belonged to the Evangelical Church.

Life

Emich zu Leiningen, a great-nephew of Queen Victoria , was born on her country estate on the Isle of Wight . As a career, he chose a military career in the Prussian Army and rose there to lieutenant colonel à la suite in the deputy general command of the XVIII. Army Corps . He took part in about 20 battles of the First World War.

As a landowner in Lower Franconia, Hesse and Baden, Emich zu Leiningen belonged to the Bavarian Imperial Council , the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the First Chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Baden after the death of his father in 1904 .

After the November Revolution, Article 109 of the Weimar Constitution ceased to have all the privileges of the nobility and thus also the civil rights of inheritance with the regulations of the primogeniture . In order to prevent the division of the family assets , Emich Fürst zu Leiningen succeeded in drafting an inheritance contract in 1925, which was in accordance with the civil code and secured the assets of the Princely House of Leiningen for future generations. During the years of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism , Emich zu Leiningen was a benefactor of the city of Amorbach .

family

Monogram of Prince Emich zu Leiningen

On July 12, 1894, Emich married Princess Feodora in Langenburg (July 23, 1866 in Langenburg, † November 1, 1932 in Waldleiningen), the daughter of Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , the governor of Alsace-Lorraine . The marriage produced five children, a daughter and four sons:

  • Viktoria (* May 12, 1895; † February 9, 1973) ⚭ 1922 Maximilian Ludwig Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (* September 24, 1893 in Assenheim ; † September 2, 1968 in Marburg ). The marriage resulted in two sons.
  • Emich Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Leiningen (born December 29, 1896; † (fallen) March 21, 1918)
  • According to house tradition, Karl (1898–1946) was counted as the sixth Prince of Leiningen from 1939 ; ⚭ 1925 Maria Kirillovna (* February 2, 1907; † October 27, 1951), the eldest daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Kyrill Vladimirovich Romanov . The marriage had seven children.
  • Hermann (1901–1971) ⚭ 1938 Countess Irene von Schönborn-Wiesentheid. The marriage remained childless.
  • Hesso (* July 23, 1903; † June 19, 1967) ⚭ 1933 Countess Marie Louise von Nesselrode. The marriage remained childless.

Honors

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Leiningen house. 900 years of total history with ancestral sequences. German Princely Houses, Issue 32, Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811993-9-0 , p. 26 f.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 238.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 517.

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Supporting documents and comments

  1. ↑ Princes of the House of Leiningen
  2. ^ House Leiningen in Online Gotha by Paul Theroff
  3. ↑ Article 109 WRV ( Weimar Constitution of August 11, 1919) stipulates that the privileges or disadvantages under public law of birth or status are to be abolished. Denominations of nobility are only [no longer] part of the name and may no longer be awarded. In the case of the descendants of the former Princely House of Leiningen , all family members of the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg line have since carried the surname Prince or Princess of Leiningen . The name designation Fürst von Leiningen , which goes back to the no longer existing and inheritable primogeniture nobility , using the first-born title "Fürst" as part of the name (only for the heads of the family) is similar in non-official contexts to the provisions of the pseudonym as a form of courtesy based on the tradition of the family predominantly used in literature as well as in society. Wikipedia does not know whether the name, which is relevant for registration purposes , remained Prince von Leiningen after the death of the last entitled person in 1939 . In some similar cases, title holders authorized under nobility law succeeded in having the part of the name Fürst entered in their documents due to the goodwill of the local authority. See Wilfried Rogasch : crash course nobility. DuMont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-8321-7617-4 , p. 17 f.
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27007, HMSO, London, 23 September 1898, p. 5599 ( PDF , English).
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen, Emich to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen, Emich Eduard Carl Fürst to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Leiningen, Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Osborne House
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1939
Place of death Mudau