Heinrich XXII. (Reuss-Greiz)

Prince Heinrich XXII. Reuss

Prince Heinrich XXII. Reuss with a stag he killed

Heinrich XXII. von Reuss zu Greiz, Prince Reuss older line , Graf and Herr zu Plauen, Herr zu Greiz, Kranichfeld, Gera, Schleiz, Lobenstein, (born March 28, 1846 in Greiz ; † April 19, 1902 ibid) was ruler from 1859 to 1902 Prince of the Principality of Reuss older line .

Life

Heinrich XXII. was the second son of Prince Heinrich XX. von Reuss zu Greiz and his wife Caroline von Hessen-Homburg .

Because his older brother Heinrich XXI. had already died in 1844, Heinrich XXII. after the death of his father on November 8, 1859, the throne, but until his 21st birthday his mother Caroline led the custodial government. As the wife of the Austrian officer Heinrich XX. and daughter of the Austrian general Gustav von Hessen-Homburg , she was anti-Prussian. This resulted in the occupation by Prussian troops in the German War of 1866 . After paying 100,000 thalers , the occupation troops withdrew on October 5, 1866.

On March 28, 1867, Heinrich XXII took over. the government. On this occasion he gave his principality a constitution for the first time . Extremely conservative, he tried to govern absolutistically and made his principality a bulwark of Orthodox Lutheranism . Which was expressed, among other things, in the fact that he accepted Lutheran pastors from the Kurhessian church into the service of his regional church, who had opposed the introduction of the church union in their home country . During his reign he remained true to the memory of his parents and remained in constant contradiction to Prussia. He did not take part in the imperial proclamation in Versailles on January 18, 1871. The antipathy against Prussia became clear in 1877 in the vote on the seat of the Reichsgericht , in which Reuss' vote was decisive for Leipzig and against Prussian Berlin. Reuss also voted against the introduction of civil marriage and the civil code (BGB) , against the culture war laws and even against Bismarck's socialist laws , which Heinrich XXII. earned the nickname Heinrich the Naughty . In particular, the armaments policy and foreign policy of the empire he did not agree, so that L. ä among others as the only state Reuss. The Federal Council in 1900 against China Expedition and 1901 against the budget of the Foreign Ministry and against the colonial budget agreed.

Despite all reservations about Prussia, Heinrich was chief of the 2nd Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 96 , General of the Infantry and, from November 3, 1892, Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle .

Heinrich XXII. died on April 19, 1902. His son Heinrich XXIV. was incapable of governing due to an accident suffered in his childhood , so that the Reuss younger line took over the regency.

progeny

Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe (1852-1891)

Heinrich XXII. married Ida zu Schaumburg-Lippe on October 8, 1872 (* July 28, 1852 - September 28, 1891), daughter of Prince Adolf I of Schaumburg-Lippe . The royal couple had six children:

Heinrich XXIV. (1878–1927)
Emma Karoline Hermine Marie (born January 17, 1881 in Greiz; † December 6, 1961 in Ehrenburg) ∞ on May 14, 1903 in Greiz Erich Graf von Ehrenburg (1880–1930)
Marie Agnes (born March 26, 1882 in Greiz; † November 1, 1942 in Klagenfurt) ∞ on February 4, 1904 in Greiz Ferdinand Freiherr von Gnagnoni (1878–1955), kuk Rittmeister
Caroline Elisabeth Ida (1884–1905) ∞ on April 30, 1903 in Bückeburg Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1876–1923)
Hermine (1887–1947) ∞ I. (1907) Prince Johann Georg von Schoenaich-Carolath (1873–1920); ∞ II. (1922) Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1859–1941)
Ida Emma Antoinette Charlotte Victoria (born September 4, 1891 in Greiz; † March 29, 1977 in Droyßig ) ∞ on November 6, 1911 in Greiz Christoph Martin zu Stolberg-Roßla (1888–1949)

literature

Gustav von Glasenapp : Military Biographies of the Officer Corps of the Prussian Army. Berlin 1868, p. 279.

Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 7, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1939], DNB 367632829 , pp. 95 f., No. 2166.

Thuringian State Archives Greiz (Ed.): Heinrich the Two and Twentieth. His life, his work and his time. Greiz 2002.

Carola Nathan: The naughty one. In: Monuments , 20th year 2010, No. 11/12, pp. 66–72. ( online )

Werner Greiling / Hagen Rüster (ed.): Reuss older line in the 19th century. The stubborn principality? , Jena 2013.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich XXII. (Reuß-Greiz) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Keller: August Vilmar and his students . In: Reiner Braun (ed.): Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association . tape 58/2007 . Darmstadt / Kassel 2008, p. 42 f .
↑ Theodor Toeche-Mittler: The imperial proclamation in Versailles on January 18, 1871 with a directory of the festival participants. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1896.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich XX.	Prince Reuss zu Greiz 1859 - 1902	Heinrich XXIV.

personal data
SURNAME	Heinrich XXII.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prince of Reuss older line (Reuss-Greiz)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greiz
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1902
Place of death	Greiz

[1] Rudolf Keller: August Vilmar and his students . In: Reiner Braun (ed.): Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association . tape 58/2007 . Darmstadt / Kassel 2008, p. 42 f .

[Toeche-Mittler-2] Theodor Toeche-Mittler: The imperial proclamation in Versailles on January 18, 1871 with a directory of the festival participants. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1896.