Gustav Ernst zu Erbach-Schönberg (1840–1908)

Gustav Ernst Prince and Count of Erbach-Schönberg

Karl Albrecht Eberhard Casimir Georg Friedrich Heinrich August Maximilian Emil Gustav Ernst Graf (1903: Prince and Count ) of Erbach-Schönberg (* 17th August 1840 in Schönberg in Bensheim , † 29. January 1908 in Darmstadt ) was a German nobleman and Standesherr from the house of Erbach .

Life and family

Gustav Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg succeeded his father, Ludewig III , at the age of 23 . Count zu Erbach-Schönberg , owned by the family. He received his training at Schönberg Palace together with the sons of the Hessian master builder Hermann Kroencke , who died early . Then he attended grammar school in Braunschweig . The father wanted his son to have a “normal” school education in the class. Gustav studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin and then perfected the French language in Lausanne . From here he was called to Schoenberg to succeed his father. At the inauguration of the Luther memorial in Worms in 1868, in the house of the leather manufacturer Heyl, he met Princess Marie Karoline von Battenberg , to whom he became engaged in 1870. In the war of 1870/71 Gustav was used as a medical officer. On April 29, 1871, the wedding took place in Darmstadt in the city ​​church . The daughter Elisabeth (Edda) Princess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode emerged from the marriage, and in 1910 the German ambassador in Rome, Dr. jur. Wilhelm Prince zu Stolberg-Wernigerode married. Their son, Prince Alexander zu Erbach-Schönberg (1872–1944), succeeded him in the class rule.

Gustav Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg had been a member of the First Chamber in the Grand Duchy of Hesse since 1865 . He served the state parliament from 1879 to 1890 as secretary and was thus a member of the presidium. First he was a member of the third, from 1875 to 1887 of the first committee of the state parliament. Gustav continued to hold ranks in the Hessian army, in 1881 he became a colonel à la suite . In the following years he was often active as a diplomat for the Darmstadt court, for example when the Hessian change of the throne was notified in Baden and Württemberg in 1877 .

On August 18, 1903, Gustav, his wife Marie zu Erbach-Schönberg and his house were raised to the hereditary prince status by the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, with the proviso that the respective head owned by the Erbach-Schönberg rulership House the title and name of Prince and Count of Erbach-Schönberg, whose lawful wife should bear the title and name of Princess and Countess of Erbach-Schönberg, both with the predicate "Highness", the other members of the noble house of Erbach-Schönberg Title and name Prinz zu Erbach-Schönberg as well as Princess zu Erbach-Schönberg, also with the title "Highness", have to serve. From 1884 he was a senior in the Erbach family.

Awards

• Right knight of the Order of St. John
• July 25, 1872: Awarded the Württemberg Order of Olga
• August 25, 1884: Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Ludewig

literature

• H. Lohr: Gustav Prince of Erbach-Schönberg. A picture of life. Bensheim 1908.
• Lupold von Lehsten, Manfred Schaarschmidt: 700 years of Schönberg. Village and residence in the Odenwald. Schoenberg 2003, 35-36.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 291.

Web links

• Erbach-Schönberg, Karl Albrecht Eberhard Kasimir Georg Friedrich Heinrich August Maximilian Emil Gustav Ernst von in the Hessian biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erbach-Schönberg, Karl Albrecht Eberhard Kasimir Georg Friedrich Heinrich August Maximilian Emil Gustav Ernst von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).