Heinrich I. Prince Reuss-Köstritz

Heinrich (Harry) I. Prince Reuss-Köstritz (also: Heinrich I. Prinz von Reuss younger line) (* October 8, 1910 in Krieter ; † March 10, 1982 in Büdingen ) was a German prince from the Reuss family .

Life

family

Heinrich I. Prince Reuss-Köstritz was the son of Heinrich XXXIV. Prince Reuss (1887–1956), Mr. zu Stonsdorf in Lower Silesia, Dr. jur., Lieutenant Colonel a. D., and Sophie Renate Princess Reuss zu Köstritz (1884–1968).

His paternal grandparents were Heinrich XXVIII. Prince Reuss zu Köstritz and Magdalene geb. Countess of Solms-Laubach (1863–1925). His maternal grandparents were Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss zu Köstritz and Marie Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .

On September 15, 1939, he married Woizlawa-Feodora in Bad Doberan , the only daughter of Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg and his first wife Viktoria Feodora Reuss younger line . The marriage resulted in a daughter and five sons:

• Feodora Princess Reuss (born February 5, 1942)
• Heinrich VIII. Prince Reuss (born August 30, 1944)
• Henry IX. Prince Reuss (born June 30, 1947)
• Heinrich X. Prince Reuss (born July 28, 1948)
• Henry XIII. Prince Reuss (born December 4, 1951)
• Henry XV. Prince Reuss (born October 9, 1956)

Career

Heinrich I. Prince Reuss-Köstritz studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1930 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . On January 19, 1935, he became the adoptive son of the unmarried and childless Hereditary Prince Heinrich XLV. Reuss . He became a first lieutenant, but retired from military service in 1941 when he was run over by a tank and suffered a severe leg injury that made him unable to walk for life. The family lived at Osterstein Castle in Gera until it was destroyed in the heaviest air raid on the city on April 6, 1945. They then moved into Ebersdorf Palace for a short time before they fled to Hesse , when the US forces withdrew from Thuringia in the summer of 1945, to Heinrich's sister Felizitas in Ysenburg and Büdingen . His adoptive father Heinrich XLV., Who stayed in Ebersdorf, was abducted by the Soviet military in August 1945 and has been missing since then. After Heinrich XLV. 1962 was officially declared dead, Heinrich I took over his inheritance, while Heinrich IV. Reuss-Köstritz (1919–2012) became head of the entire Reuss house.

In Büdingen , Heinrich I became the general representative of his brother-in-law Otto Friedrich zu Ysenburg and Büdingen. He was a farmer and legal knight of the Order of St. John . His grave is in the cemetery of the Arnsburg monastery in Lich .

He gained notoriety posthumously after the German reunification , when his widow sought to regain expropriated property. In an amicable agreement with the State Office of Thuringia, around 700 works of art were transferred back. In a settlement in 2008, the family was awarded Thallwitz Castle . Other methods such as B. the ones around the Osterstein Castle were unsuccessful.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For their spouses, children and the rest of the family, see Reuss family list
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 16 , 1055
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ulrike Merkel: Osterstein Castle burned out in three weeks (interview with Woizlawa-Feodora Princess Reuss, part 2). Ostthüringer Zeitung, December 14, 2018, p. 3.
4. ↑ Arnsburg Monastery Cemetery on Royalty Guide. ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Fürstenhaus Reuss: Dispute over the status of the "Gera silver furniture" . In: Tagesspiegel , September 27, 2006.
6. ↑ The Reuss Princely House gets the Thallwitz Castle back . In: Die Welt , July 25, 2008.
7. ↑ No success in court, January 26, 2005 on www.gera-chronik.de