Günther XLIII. (Schwarzburg-Sondershausen)

Günther I. (XLIII.) Von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (born August 13, 1678 - † November 28, 1740 ) was Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen from 1720 to 1740 .

Life

Prince Günther I was the son of Prince Christian Wilhelm von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1647–1721) and his wife Princess Antonie Sybille (1641–1684), daughter of Count Albrecht Friedrich I von Barby-Mühlingen . His tutors counted Immanuel Weber a learned theologian and jurist.

While his father was still alive, he took over the government in 1720 and led it as a just, mild and pious regent until 1740. On the basis of the inheritance and successions treaty concluded in 1713 , he was the first-born son and became the sole heir and thus the ruling prince. He replaced the foreign sovereignty over different parts of the principality and thereby increased its value and reputation.

He had a new church built in Jechaburg and the prince's house in Sondershausen . The prince was very excited hunting and therefore also had the hunting lodge to the antics on the Hainleite build in Sondershausen, whose name he chose based on a poem of his half-sister Christiane Wilhelmine.

Since he died without an heir, his half-brother Heinrich took over the reign of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

marriage

Günther I was married to Elisabeth Albertine (1693–1774), daughter of Prince Carl Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg , since October 2, 1712 . However, the marriage remained childless.

literature

• HF Apfelstedt : The House of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg from its origins to our time. ISBN 3-910132-29-4 .
• Dr. Kamill von Behr: Genealogy of the princely houses in Europe. Leipzig 1870.

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Wilhelm	Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1720–1740	Heinrich I.