Ernst August von Hannover (1983)

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Ernst August of Hanover (2014)

Ernst August Prince of Hanover, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Royal Prince of Great Britain and Ireland (born July 19, 1983 in Hildesheim ) from the Guelph family is a German investment banker . He manages the agricultural, forestry and structural property of the House of Hanover in Germany and Austria , which his father Ernst August Prince of Hanover had transferred to him in 2004.

family

Parents and siblings

Ernst August von Hannover is the oldest child of Ernst August von Hannover (* 1954) and his first wife Chantal Hochuli (* 1955). His father is the current head of the former royal house of Hanover and the former ducal house of Braunschweig . Christian Heinrich von Hannover (* 1985) has a brother and Ernst August with Alexandra Princess of Hanover (born July 20, 1999) a half-sister, his father's princess marriage Caroline of Monaco from the house of Grimaldi emerged.

Marriage and children

After the church wedding with Ekaterina Malysheva in Hanover (2017)

In 2017 Heinrich Ernst August von Hannover married the Russian fashion designer Ekaterina Malysheva (born July 1, 1986). The civil wedding was performed by the Mayor of Hanover, Stefan Schostok, on July 6, 2017 in the New Town Hall in Hanover . The church wedding took place on July 8, 2017 in Hanover's Marktkirche . The couple has a daughter Elisabeth, born in 2018, and a son Welf August, born in 2019 . The family initially moved into the Princely House of Herrenhausen and now lives elsewhere in Hanover.

Name and title

His official name in the German passport is: Ernst August Andreas Philipp Constantin Maximilian Rolf Stephan Ludwig Rudolph Prince of Hanover Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Royal Prince of Great Britain and Ireland . The family's British surname (which also has British citizenship) is Guelph (English for Welf , combined with the salutation Royal Highness ).

Since December 9, 1987, to distinguish him from his father, he has often been given the unofficial title Hereditary Prince of Hanover, after his father succeeded his grandfather Ernst August von Hanover (1914–1987) as head of the Welfenhaus.

Life

Ernst August von Hannover grew up bilingual in the London district of Fulham and attended the German School in London . His mother tongue is English. For a time he lived at Malvern College , a boarding school in Worcestershire , as did his younger brother Christian . Ernst August regularly spent his holidays at the family-owned Marienburg Castle near Nordstemmen in Lower Saxony.

Ernst August studied history and economics in New York City and Florence and then worked as an investment banker, including for a fund at the Islamic Investment Bank in Bahrain . At a London investment bank, Ernst August specialized in the financing of small mining and technology companies in emerging countries .

In 2004, his father transferred the Marienburg Castle and the Princely House in Herrenhausen to him, as well as lands and forests in Lower Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Austria. Since then he has “almost exclusively taken care of the inheritance” (in the form of a civil society ). Since 2012 he has also been increasingly representing the Welfenhaus. While Ernst August initially only stayed in Hanover for a short time, in the course of time he gradually moved his center of life there.

In 2005, Ernst August sold a large part of the Marienburg furniture and the collections stored in the depot, which originally came from Blankenburg Castle and Cumberland Castle , in Sotheby’s so-called “ Welfenauktion ” . It was planned to bring the funds into a foundation for the maintenance of the Marienburg. According to his statement in an interview in 2019, the proceeds of 44 million euros were used partly for costs and commissions, but mostly to repay his father's debts, the amount of which he was not aware of at the time of the auction; the remaining proceeds were invested in the castle, for example in the expansion of the main tower and the restaurant. In 2011, Ernst August sold the courtyard buildings of the Calenberg domain in Schulenburg , located near the Marienburg , because the historic farm buildings of the manor and family seat were no longer suitable for modern agricultural or forestry use, but kept the usable areas. The income from this would not have been nearly sufficient from the start to maintain or renovate Marienburg Castle in the long term. Liquid assets were not transferred to him.

The Austrian possessions of the Welfenhaus, which took its seat in Gmunden after the end of the Kingdom of Hanover through the Prussian annexations in 1866 , including the Cumberland Wildlife Park , are held by a family foundation based in Liechtenstein , the Duke of Cumberland Foundation . In 2013, Ernst August replaced his father as President of the Board of Trustees.

In 2014 Ernst August von Hanover appeared in public for the first time in Hanover with a lecture on the 300th anniversary of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover . He promoted the Lower Saxony state exhibition " When the Royals came from Hanover " in 2014 and for the exhibition " The way to the crown - The Kingdom of Hanover and its rulers" at Marienburg Castle, also held in 2014 .

Marienburg Castle

In 2014, Ernst August von Hannover announced that he would make Marienburg Castle a landmark for the region and a destination for the Neuschwanstein class . He succeeded in increasing the annual visitor numbers from 30,000 in 2005 to 200,000 within ten years. According to their own statements, it is the most visited castle in northern Germany .

Marienburg Castle

Ernst August von Hannover received more media attention in November 2018 when he became aware of his plans to sell Marienburg Castle. He justified this with the loss-making operation and maintenance of what exceeded his financial means. The public authorities intended to acquire the palace complex, which was in dire need of renovation, for the symbolic amount of one euro and to renovate it for around 27 million euros; the takeover by a subsidiary of the monastery chamber of Hanover was planned. According to the Lower Saxony Minister of Culture Björn Thümler , the facility should be preserved and made permanently accessible to the public because of its importance as a cultural monument and memorial for Lower Saxony's national identity. The handover planned for the beginning of 2019 was delayed due to the veto by the father Ernst August Prinz von Hannover senior , who revoked his donation from 2004 and reclaimed the castle from his son because of gross ingratitude . The Lower Saxony state government then stopped taking over the plant. In March 2019, Ernst August von Hannover decided not to sell the castle until a final solution was found and is sticking to the goal of soon transferring it to a non-profit foundation.

See also

literature

  • Robert von Lucius: The great prince. Hereditary Prince Ernst August of Hanover wants to maintain the traditions of the Guelphs - but not only . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. Newspaper for Germany , Edition D, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2012
  • Heinz-Siegfried Strelow: Rifle march Hanover. Finally another Guelph at the top! In: Althannoverscher Volkskalender , Sulingen: Plenge, 2013
  • Reinhard Bingener: Who pays the Welfenspeise? Nobility and politics in Lower Saxony in close contact , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. Newspaper for Germany , Edition D, 2014

Web links

Commons : Ernst August von Hannover, 1983  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A royal vow in the New Town Hall in Hanover. In: ndr.de . 6th July 2017.
  2. ↑ Yes! Ernst August and Ekaterina got married. In: ndr.de . July 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Offspring among the Guelphs: Ekaterina is pregnant. In: ndr.de . October 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ernst August and Ekaterina von Hannover have a son in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 15, 2019
  5. ↑ Welfenspross is called Welf August von Hannover , Hannoversche Allgemeine April 21, 2019
  6. ↑ Simon Benne : In the role of prince in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 18, 2014
  7. ↑ The great prince. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 8, 2012.
  8. ^ Ernst August von Hannover: "The money is gone" , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ), February 1, 2019
  9. ↑ Hereditary Prince sells family home in Schulenburg. In: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] . January 6, 2011.
  10. ↑ HAZ, February 1, 2019
  11. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 22, 2017
  12. ↑ Simon Benne: Greetings to Neuschwanstein. In: HAZ . March 25, 2014.
  13. ^ Hilde Weeg: A fairytale castle as a bone of contention. In: Deutschlandfunk . February 28, 2019.
  14. ↑ Hubert Gude: “No understanding” - Ernst August Prince of Hanover criticizes his son. In: Spiegel Online . January 25, 2019.
  15. ↑ Guelph Prince sells Marienburg for one euro. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . 29th November 2018.
  16. ↑ Ernst August sells Marienburg for one euro. In: ndr.de . 29th November 2018.
  17. ↑ Hilde Weeg: Family feud about Welfenschloss. In: Deutschlandfunk . February 25, 2019.
  18. ^ Marienburg: Ernst August junior holds on to the sale. In: ndr.de . December 11, 2018.
  19. ↑ Marienburg: Ernst August senior objects. In: ndr.de . 5th February 2019.
  20. ↑ Christoph Hamann: Future of the Marienburg: Agreement on Monday? In: ndr.de . 3rd March 2019.
  21. ↑ Ernst August junior doesn't want to sell the castle for the time being. In: Spiegel Online . 4th March 2019
  22. ↑ a b c Compare the references in above : Hanover, Ernst August von , in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of October 18, 2011, last accessed on October 15, 2011. March 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hanover, Ernst August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanover, Ernst August Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aristocratic descendant, Hereditary Prince of the House of Welf, farmer and investment banker
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim