Heinrich VII. Reuss zu Köstritz
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 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:
- Son (* / † 1877)
- Heinrich XXXII. (1878-1935)
- ⚭ 1920 (closed 1921) Princess Marie Adelheid zur Lippe (1895–1993)
- Heinrich XXXIII. (1879–1942)
- ⚭ 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
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 139-140, no. 2787.
- Heinrich Heffter : Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss-Köstritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 387 f. ( Digitized version ).
- James Stone, Winfried Baumgart (ed.): Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss ambassador under Bismarck and Caprivi. Correspondence 1871-1894. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015; ISBN 978-3-506-77931-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Stone, Winfried Baumgart (ed.): Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss ambassador under Bismarck and Caprivi. Correspondence 1871-1894. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015. p. 24.
- ↑ James Stone, Winfried Baumgart (ed.): Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss ambassador under Bismarck and Caprivi. Correspondence 1871-1894. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015. p. 26.
- ↑ Angelika Pöthe: Carl Alexander. Patron in Weimar's ›Silver Era‹. Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-00498-7 , p. 105.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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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 |
personal data | |
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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 |