Ernst zu Leiningen

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Ernst zu Leiningen

Ernst Leopold Victor Carl August Joseph Emich Prince of Leiningen (born November 9, 1830 in Amorbach ; † April 5, 1904 there ) was the fourth Prince of Leiningen and a German registrar . In the British Royal Navy he reached the rank of admiral .

origin

Ernst zu Leiningen from the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg line was the son of Prince Karl zu Leiningen and Princess Maria, née Countess von Klebelsberg. He belonged to the Evangelical Church.

Life

Ernst zu Leiningen (left) with Prince Viktor zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Ernst zu Leiningen, a nephew of Queen Victoria , spent his childhood at the British royal court. He was later educated in Geneva and in 1849 joined the United Kingdom Navy as a cadet . He took part in missions in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 and in the Crimean War in 1854 . In 1855 trips to the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean followed . He then served for a long time as the commandant of the royal yachts HMS Magicienne and HMY Victoria and Albert . In 1881 he achieved the rank of Vice Admiral and in 1887 that of Admiral. In 1895 he took his leave from the British Navy.

As a landowner in Lower Franconia, Hesse and Baden, Ernst 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 1856 . The prince succeeded in restoring the class regime through thrift. Where agriculture in the Odenwald remained unprofitable, new forest areas emerged. In 1865 Ernst zu Leiningen had the organ of the former abbey church, the court church in Amorbach , restored by the Stumm brothers . He had Waldleiningen Castle completed by 1867 and surrounded it with a forest park based on the English model. The community of Neubrunn , not far from the palace, had already been renamed Ernsttal after him by his father . In 1893 he founded the Princely Leiningische Archiv as an institution for historical research and in 1897 passed a new house law.

Ernst zu Leiningen spoke seven European and several oriental languages. In 1863 he turned down the royal crown offered to him by Greece. In 1882 he could have become chief of the admiralty of the Imperial Navy and in 1890 Duke of Lorraine. All of these suggestions did not seem attractive to him because of the alleged lack of possible effects.

family

On September 11, 1858 married Ernst to Leinigen in Karlsruhe Marie (* November 20, 1834; † 21 November 1899), the daughter of the Baden Grand Duke Leopold . The marriage resulted in two children, a daughter and a son:

Orders and decorations

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
  • 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.
  • Friedrich Oswald:  Leiningen, Ernst zu. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 146 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • 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. 518.

Web links

Supporting documents and comments

  1. ↑ Princes of the House of Leiningen at fuerst-leiningen.de
  2. ^ House Leiningen in Online Gotha by Paul Theroff
  3. ↑ a b William Loney RN
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25721, HMSO, London, July 15, 1887, p. 3852 ( PDF , English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26679, HMSO, London, November 12, 1895, p. 6099 ( PDF , English).
  6. ↑ SWR broadcast on the Stumm family of organ builders
  7. ↑ Ducal Saxony-Ernestine House Order In: State handbooks for the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha. (1890), p. 44 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ Grand Ducal Orders. House Order of Loyalty. In: Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Baden. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1858, p. 34 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Grand Ducal Orders. Order of the Zähringer Lion. In: Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Baden. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1858, p. 49 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 22761, HMSO, London, August 11, 1863, p. 3995 ( PDF , English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23064, HMSO, London, January 30, 1866, p. 511 ( PDF , English).
  12. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen" p. 13
  13. ↑ Kongelig Dansk Hof-og Statskalendar (1880) (in Danish), "De Kongelig Danske Ridderordener", p. 10
  14. ↑ The award was initially only made by mistake on account of honor, but was corrected approximately three months later to a full additional knighthood.
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25717, HMSO, London, July 1, 1887, p. 3561 ( PDF , English).
  16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25742, HMSO, London, September 27, 1887, p. 5263 ( PDF , English).
  17. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25745, HMSO, London, October 7, 1887, p. 5435 ( PDF , English).
  18. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kingdom Württemberg (1907), "Königliche Orden", p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen, seriously too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen, Ernst Leopold Victor Carl August Joseph Emich Prince to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Leiningen, British admiral
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Amorbach
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1904
Place of death Amorbach