Ernst II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

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Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Ernst II zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg with his wife Alexandra

Ernst II. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Maximilian, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born September 13, 1863 in Langenburg ; † December 11, 1950 there ) was regent of Saxony from 1900 to 1905 until Duke Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha came of age -Coburg and Gotha .

biography

Ernst was the first child of Prince Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832–1913) and his wife Princess Leopoldine of Baden (1837–1903).

After graduating from high school in Karlsruhe , the young prince studied law in Paris, Bonn, Tübingen and Leipzig. In 1885 he passed the first state examination in law at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court . After his officer training in Berlin-Lichterfelde (1886-1891) the diplomatic exam (1890/91) and the service as embassy secretary in Saint Petersburg and London (1891-94) followed. In the following years he worked for his father, Prince Hermann, the civil governor in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine in Strasbourg, and prepared himself for his future as a state lord of Württemberg.

Due to the family ties of his wife, a daughter of Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , the Hereditary Prince took over the regency in the duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha after the death of his father-in-law on July 30, 1900 to July 18, 1905 for the still underage Carl Eduard . After several unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold on the imperial political stage - as head of the colonial department in the Foreign Office (1905/06) and as a member of the Reichstag (1907–1911) and vice-president (1909/10) , he assumed his stately legacy in 1913 . Associated with this was the hereditary seat in the Württemberg Chamber of Notaries until the November Revolution of 1918 , to which he had been a deputy of his father since 1895. During the First World War, the prince volunteered in nursing, among other things as a delegate general on the Eastern Front and (since 1918) as an imperial commissioner and military inspector. In 1915 he was sent to Constantinople and the Balkans as a special envoy .

After the war, the couple withdrew into private life. While his wife was suffering from constant illnesses, Ernst church and association activities devoted (u. A. As a member of the German Protestant Church days , Commendator of Wuerttemberg-Baden's cooperative, governor of the Balley Brandenburg in the Order of St. John , honorary president of the Württemberg State Association of the Red Cross, and the Evangelical People's League for Württemberg).

During the National Socialist era , he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party on April 1, 1936 (member number 3.726.902).

Ernst died in Langenburg at the age of 87.

Ernst II was a corps bow bearer of Suevia Tübingen (1884) and Borussia Bonn (1887).

Honors

family

Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

On April 20, 1896, he married Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (September 1, 1878, † April 16, 1942) granddaughter of Queen Victoria at Ehrenburg Castle in Coburg . The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Gottfried (1897–1960), successor as head of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg family
⚭ 1931 Margarita of Greece (1905–1981),
  • Melita (1899-1967)
⚭ 1916 Wilhelm Friedrich Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (1891–1965),
  • Alexandra (1901–1963) remained unmarried
  • Irma (1902–1986) remained unmarried
  • Alfred († 1911)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 261.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129/381; 9/713.
  3. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1901, p. 76
  4. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, p. 31

literature

  • German House Treasure, XXVI. Volume, 1899/1900, No. 49, p. 920. Portrait (photo).
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 381 .
  • Thomas Nicklas: Ernst II. Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Class gentleman, regent, diplomat in the Empire (1863–1950). In: Gerhard Taddey (Ed.): Lebensbilder aus Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 21, 2005, 362–383.
  • Ralf Garmatter: Prince Ernst II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Hitler as a "gift from God for the German people". In: Wolfgang Proske (ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders . Volume 8: People polluted by the Nazis from the north of today's Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-945893-09-8 , pp. 227-235.

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predecessor Office successor
Hermann Head of the House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
1913–1950 		Gottfried
personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Ernst II. To
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Ernst II. Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regent of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1950
Place of death Langenburg