Friedrich Günther von Schwarzburg
Friedrich Günther von Schwarzburg (born March 5, 1901 in Großharthau , † November 9, 1971 in Munich ) was head of the Schwarzburg family from 1926 . As the head of the family, he called himself Prince von Schwarzburg .
Life
Friedrich Günther was the eldest son of Prince Sizzo von Schwarzburg (1860–1926) and Princess Alexandra of Anhalt (1868–1958), daughter of Duke Friedrich I and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg . Up until the November Revolution of 1918, his father was the heir to the throne in the two principalities of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , which were ruled by his childless cousin Günther Victor .
The prince spent his childhood in Großharthau. After receiving private tuition in Großharthau, he went to boarding school in Bieberstein Castle near Fulda . After graduating from high school in Dresden , he got to know forestry from an early age. On March 7, 1938, Sophie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1911–1988), daughter of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , married in Heinrichau / Silesia . The marriage was divorced that same year.
His father Sizzo, however, was not the testamentary heir of the last ruling Prince Günther Victor (until 1918) because he had fallen out with him, which is why his widow Anna Luise (1871–1951) inherited the remaining extensive private fortune in 1925 and Sizzo to his property in Großharthau and Goldbach remained restricted. The former princess, however, ruled out an adoption by Friedrich Günther, who had continued his father's legal battle against her after his father's death in 1926. In 1942, the last Princess of Schwarzburg decided to adopt Wilhelm von Schönburg-Waldenburg , the youngest son of her brother Ulrich, and thus to appoint him as heir to the Schwarzburg property.
Friedrich Günther took part in the Second World War and in the French campaign he was promoted to NCO. He was dismissed from service by Hitler's prince decree in 1943 . Until the end of the war he only rarely came to Großharthau. In April 1945 he fled Großharthau on his bike in the direction of Saxon Switzerland . From there he went on to Heidelberg , where his mother followed him in 1946. In the Soviet occupation zone , the then state administration of Saxony issued the “Ordinance on Agricultural Land Reform ” in September 1945 , which resulted in his possessions in Großharthau and Goldbach being expropriated without compensation. The dowager princess Anna Luise was also expropriated in 1945 and most of the Schwarzburg property was transferred to public property , but she lived in the Residenzschloss special house until her death in 1951.
Friedrich Günther lived in Heidelberg after the war and liked to paint pictures with motifs from Großharthau. He died as the last male member of the Princely House, not remarried and childless on November 9, 1971 in Munich. With him, the Schwarzburg house became extinct in the male line.
See also
literature
- The princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt 1997 (3rd edition 2001), ISBN 3-910013-27-9 .
- Max Oberbreyer: Sizzo Prince of Schwarzburg. Rudolstadt 1909.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trade. Princes on bottles . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1968, pp. 73-74 ( online ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwarzburg, Friedrich Günther von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman, head of the Schwarzburg family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großharthau |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1971 |
| Place of death | Munich |