Georg Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg

Georg Moritz Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Altenburg (born May 13, 1900 in Potsdam ; † February 13, 1991 in Rendsburg ) was Hereditary Prince of the House of Saxony-Altenburg . The duchy ceased to exist in 1918 when all German federal princes were renounced. This gave rise to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg, which was incorporated into the newly founded state of Thuringia on May 1, 1920. Thus Georg Moritz never assumed government responsibility. He was a supporter and promoter of anthroposophy .

Life

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Georg Moritz was the second child and first son of Duke Ernst II of Saxony-Altenburg and his wife, Duchess Adelheid, nee Princess zu Schaumburg-Lippe . His father, at that time not yet regent of the duchy, lived at that time with his wife and daughter as captain and company commander of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in Potsdam . The Hereditary Prince was followed by two other siblings, Princess Elisabeth on April 6, 1903 and Prince Friedrich Ernst on May 15, 1905 . On May 13, 1907, the Grandfather of the Hereditary Prince died and a year later his brother, Duke Ernst I. On February 7, 1908, his father took over the reign of the Duchy. On this occasion, the ducal family moved from Potsdam to Altenburg . The Hereditary Prince lived in Altenburg until he was 13. At the end of March 1913, his father brought him to Dresden , where he continued his education at the König-Georg-Gymnasium . He received his military training in the 8th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 153.

Georg Moritz had already turned to anthroposophy in his youth. At the beginning of the 1930s, meeting Siegfried Pickert was decisive for him . The center of his life in these circles shifted to Hamborn Castle , where he had been an active representative of anthroposophical teaching since 1931. In 1936 he took over the long lease for the castle's farm.

Although the Nazi regime banned anthroposophy, thanks to the mediation of Georg Moritz, the work with handicapped children in Hamborn Castle could be continued until June 1941. The background to this was the protection that anthroposophy had from Rudolf Hess until 1941 . Eventually, however, it was stopped by the Gestapo and the managing directors of the facility Adolf Ammerschlaeger and Georg Moritz were taken into protective custody for nine and a half months as part of the campaign against secret doctrines and so-called secret sciences .

In 1946 Georg Moritz returned to Hamborn Castle, where he once again stood up for employees, guests of the convalescent home and especially for the young people living there in the boarding school. Until 1968 he worked, among other things, on the board of the local social aid organization. He lived modestly in a small apartment in the castle, surrounded by an extensive library.

Georg Moritz died on February 13, 1991 as a result of pneumonia in the Rendsburg hospital. With the death of Georg Moritz, the Sachsen-Altenburg line died out in the male line, but the name is continued as a result of adoption by the Praschma family .

Georg Moritz was the godfather of the German journalist and aristocracy expert Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert .

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1. ↑ Schloss-Hamborn-Chronik.de
2. ↑ Schloss-Hamborn-Chronik.de
3. ↑ Documentation: An evening for Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert. NDR February 4, 2012.