Heinrich VII. Reuss zu Köstritz

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Prince Heinrich VII. Reuss zu Köstritz (born July 14, 1825 in Klipphausen ; † May 2, 1906 in Trebschen ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Prince Heinrich VII. Reuss zu Köstritz (1885)

Prince Heinrich VII. Reuss was born in 1825 as the fifth child and third son of Prince Heinrich LXIII. Reuss zu Köstritz and Countess Eleonore zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1801–1827) were born. From 1846 to 1848 he studied in Heidelberg , Jena and Berlin law . Then he joined the 8th Uhlan Regiment. In 1853 he embarked on a diplomatic career.

From 1854 to 1863 he worked as a legation counselor at the Prussian embassy in Paris , whereupon he moved to Kassel and later to Munich as the royal Prussian envoy . On February 5, 1868, Wilhelm I , at that time still King of Prussia, sent him to the Russian court as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister of the North German Confederation . On April 26, 1871, he was of Kaiser Wilhelm I , for the first ambassador of the German Empire in Saint Petersburg appointed.

From 1873 to 1876 he served Kaiser Wilhelm I as adjutant general before taking Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to his wife in 1876 . In the same year he became a member of the Prussian manor house . In 1877, Prince Heinrich VII. Reuss went to Constantinople as the first imperial ambassador and opened the splendid embassy building there , which he was allowed to furnish to suit his own taste. A year later he went to Vienna as German ambassador , but was dismissed by Wilhelm II at the instigation of the Prussian camarilla in 1894 after Reuss' wife Marie had visited the disgraced Bismarck in Vienna against the express orders of the Chancellor. Prince Heinrich VII Reuss then preferred to live at Trebschen Castle (now Trzebiechow), where he died in 1906.

progeny

On February 6, 1876, Heinrich VII married Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849–1922), daughter of Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .
The following children were born from this marriage:

⚭ 1920 (closed 1921) Princess Marie Adelheid zur Lippe (1895–1993)
⚭ 1. 1913 (closed 1922) Princess Viktoria Margarete of Prussia (1890–1923)
⚭ 2. 1929 (closed 1935) Allene Tew (1876–1955)
  • Johanna (1882-1883)
  • Sophie Renate (1884–1968)
⚭ 1909 Prince Heinrich XXXIV. Reuss (1887–1956)
  • Heinrich XXXV. (1887–1936)
⚭ 1. 1911 (closed 1921) Princess Marie of Saxony-Altenburg (1888–1947)
⚭ 2. 1921 (closed 1923) Princess Marie Adelheid zur Lippe (1895–1993)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Stone, Winfried Baumgart (ed.): Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss ambassador under Bismarck and Caprivi. Correspondence 1871-1894. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015. p. 24.
  2. ↑ James Stone, Winfried Baumgart (ed.): Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss ambassador under Bismarck and Caprivi. Correspondence 1871-1894. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015. p. 26.
  3. ↑ Angelika Pöthe: Carl Alexander. Patron in Weimar's ›Silver Era‹. Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-00498-7 , p. 105.
predecessor Office successor
- German ambassador to Saint Petersburg
1871–1876 		Hans Lothar von Schweinitz
Karl von Werther German ambassador to Constantinople
1877–1878 		Paul von Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg
Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode German ambassador in Vienna
1878–1894 		Philipp zu Eulenburg

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personal data
SURNAME Reuss zu Köstritz, Heinrich VII.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss zu Schleiz-Köstritz; Heinrich VII. Prince of Reuss-Schleiz-Köstritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Klipphausen (Klipphausen)
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1906
Place of death Trebschen