George of Saxony-Meiningen (1892–1946)

George of Saxe-Meiningen

The medal with the image of Georg (III.) Issued in 1978

The back of the medal

Georg Prince of Saxony-Meiningen (born October 11, 1892 in Kassel , † January 6, 1946 in Tscherepowez , USSR) was Georg III. Head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen .

Crypt of the fortress Heldburg

Life

Georg was a son of Prince Friedrich von Sachsen-Meiningen and his wife Adelheid Princess zu Lippe-Biesterfeld. After the death of his father he was Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen from 1914 until the end of the monarchy in 1918 , later he worked as a judge in Hildburghausen .

After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists, he joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and was given membership number 2,594,794. During the Second World War he was a major in the Wehrmacht .

From 1926 to 1945 he was the owner of Veste Heldburg . Georg and his family were expropriated without compensation in 1945; he himself died in 1946 as a Soviet prisoner of war in northwestern Russia . His wife fled to West Germany with the children. In 2007 his daughter Regina received 47 paintings back from the Friedenstein Castle Foundation (Gotha), which had been expropriated after the Second World War as part of his private collection on the fortress Heldburg in the Soviet occupation zone.

progeny

He married Klara Maria Countess von Korff called Schmising-Kerssenbrock (1895–1992) in Freiburg im Breisgau on February 22, 1919 . She was the daughter of the forester from Hatzfeld (Eder) , Count Alfred von Korff called Schmising-Kerssenbrock , and his wife Helene, nee. Freiin von Hilgers. This was a sister of Helene Elisabeth von Isenburg .

He had the following children with her:

• Anton Ulrich (1919–1940, fallen)
• Friedrich Alfred (1921–1997), converted to the Catholic faith, became a monk and allowed the inheritance to the exclusion of himself in favor of his uncle Bernhard
• Marie Elisabeth (1922–1923)
• Regina (1925–2010), married to Otto von Habsburg

In 1940 Anton Ulrich fell in World War II. His parents then set up a crypt on the Heldburg Fortress, in which Anton Ulrich was also buried. After Soviet troops moved into the castle, the sarcophagus was removed in 1951 and buried in the cemetery in Heldburg ( Hildburghausen district ). His mother was buried in the same grave in 1992. According to the family's wishes, the crypt on the Heldburg Fortress was restored by 2006.

The two deceased were transferred from the cemetery to the castle on February 22, 2006, and Georg III, who died in 1946 as a Soviet prisoner of war in northwestern Russia , was transferred. is planned. On February 10, 2010, his daughter Regina was also buried in this crypt, but after the death of her husband she was transferred to Vienna and buried with him on July 16, 2011 in the imperial crypt .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Commons : Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen (1892–1946)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Georg Herzog von Sachsen-Meiningen , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1952 from August 18, 1952, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Georg III Duke of Saxony-Meiningen on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 506.
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 4, 2012.  
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 4, 2012.  
4. ^ Regina von Habsburg died . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 4, 2010.
5. ↑ Article in the Salzburger Nachrichten of July 5, 2011 ( Memento of the original of September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 5, 2011.