Georg Viktor (Waldeck-Pyrmont)

Georg Viktor zu Waldeck and Pyrmont

Georg Viktor and Helene von Waldeck-Pyrmont with their daughters Marie, Helene, Pauline, Emma and Sophie (around 1864)

Georg Viktor (born January 14, 1831 in Arolsen ; † May 12, 1893 in Marienbad ) was Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from May 15, 1845 until his death.

Life

Georg Viktor was the son of Prince Georg II Heinrich . So he belonged to the Waldeck family . He was initially under the tutelage of his mother Emma until January 14, 1852 , after which he refused to recognize the constitution passed as a result of the revolution of 1848/49 , and only took over the reign on August 17, 1852 after a constitutional amendment that he approved.

In the German war he was on the side of Prussia . He offered Prussia his country for annexation, which the neighboring Kurhessen had annexed after this military conflict. Bismarck rejected this offer. An accession agreement with Prussia, which was extended several times, then came into force. Waldeck's regional director Johannes von Saldern signed the contract from 1887 .

In the Prussian army, Georg Viktor held the rank of general of the infantry . He had been a knight of the Black Eagle Order since February 1, 1868 and also chief of the 3rd Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 83 .

Marriages and offspring

Prince Georg Viktor married Princess Helene von Nassau , daughter of Duke Wilhelm von Nassau , on September 26, 1853 . After her death, on April 29, 1891, he married Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, the daughter of Duke Friedrich .

Children from first marriage:

• Sophie (July 27, 1854 - August 5, 1869)
• Pauline (1855–1925) ⚭ Alexis Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt
• Marie (1857–1882) ⚭ Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg , later King Wilhelm II of Württemberg
• Emma (1858–1934), Queen and Regent of the Netherlands, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg,

⚭ January 7, 1879 King Wilhelm III. of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

• Helene (1861–1922) ⚭ Leopold, Duke of Albany
• Friedrich (1865–1946), last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
• Elisabeth (born September 6, 1873; † November 23, 1961) ⚭ Prince Alexander zu Erbach-Schönberg

Second marriage child:

• Wolrad Friedrich (born June 26, 1892 - † October 14, 1914), died near Moorslede in Belgium

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , p. 501, no. 2437.
• Gerhard Menk : Waldeck's contribution to today's Hessen. 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2001.
• Hartmut Platte: Waldeck and Pyrmont. History of a Princely House. 2nd Edition. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2003, ISBN 3-9806221-8-5 ( German Princely Houses 3).
• Gustav von Glasenapp : Military Biographies of the Officer Corps of the Prussian Army. Berlin 1868, p. 246.

Web links

• Haus Waldeck: Excerpt from Paul Theroff's Online Gotha

predecessor	Office	successor
George II	Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont 1845–1893	Friedrich