Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg

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Hereditary Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 1916

Gottfried Hermann Alfred Paul Maximilian Viktor Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born March 24, 1897 in Langenburg ; † May 11, 1960 ibid) was head of the House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from 1950 to 1960 and called himself Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg as such .

Prince Gottfried as a nine year old

Life

Gottfried Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born as the first son of Ernst II zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , granddaughter of Queen Victoria . After completing school in his parents' castle, as well as in Dresden and Coburg , he volunteered for military service in 1915. After he left the army in 1919, he studied economics for two semesters at the University of Heidelberg . This was followed by a commercial apprenticeship in Berlin (1920–1921) and an internship at a bank in Munich (1922–1923). In the following years he worked for various international companies and banks.

From 1933, Prince zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg worked his way into the administration of the regular property until he officially took over the management of the domain office and general agency for his father Ernst II in 1935. On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP (No. 4.023.070). During the Second World War , Gottfried was primarily an officer on the Eastern Front until he was released from the army in 1944.

After the war he was appointed acting district administrator in Crailsheim for three months by the American military government . After that, Gottfried turned back to his honorary posts in clubs and associations (especially in the Württemberg-Baden Cooperative of the Order of St. John , the Association of the Nobility in Württemberg and the Automobile Club of Germany ) and in the Evangelical Church (as a member of the Württemberg regional church conventions). On December 11, 1950 he inherited his father Ernst II zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg as head of the family and owner of the family estate.

Marriage and offspring

In 1927/28 Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was briefly engaged to Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt .

On April 20, 1931, Gottfried married Princess Margarita of Greece (1905–1981), the eldest sister of Philip Mountbatten , the future husband of the future Queen Elisabeth II, in an ecumenical marriage . From 1933 he and his wife took permanent residence at Langenburg Castle .

The following children were born from the marriage:

1. ⚭ 1965–1990 Charlotte Alexandra Princess of Croÿ (* 1939);
2. ⚭ 1992 Irma Pospesch (* 1946);
  • Beatrix Alice Marie Melita Margarete (* 1936; † 1997), unmarried
  • Georg Andreas Heinrich (* 1938)
⚭ 1968 Luise Pauline Princess of Schönburg-Waldenburg (* 1943)
  • Ruprecht Sigismund Philipp Ernst (* 1944; † 1978), unmarried
  • Albrecht Wolfgang Christoph (* 1944; † 1992)
⚭ 1976 Maria-Hildegard Fischer (* 1933).

literature

  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 323 .
  • Jonathan Petropoulos: Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-516133-5 , p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • Colonial projects. The Prince Consortium . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30/1957 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Haus Hohenlohe, excerpt from Paul Theroff's Online Gotha . Whether the name Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg with the part of the name, which is reminiscent of the first-born title Fürst , which is no longer hereditary , was ever the official name or whether the family name Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg remained the official form of his person's name throughout his life, Wikipedia is currently not known.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 261.
  3. ↑ swp.de: In good memory ( Memento from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). dated May 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ swp.de: In good memory ( Memento from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 28, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
Ernst II Head of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg House
1950–1960 		force
personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Gottfried to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Gottfried Prinz zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1960
Place of death Langenburg