Hermann von Schönburg-Waldenburg

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Hermann Georg Victor Adolf Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg (born January 9, 1865 in Leipzig , † October 20, 1943 in Hermsdorf ) was a German diplomat, entails lord and manor owner.

family

Hermann von Schönburg-Waldenburg was the son of the cavalry general Georg Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg and Princess Luise of Bentheim-Tecklenburg- Rheda. His grandfather was Otto Victor I. Prince of Schönburg-Waldenburg . Gustav Prince of Bentheim-Tecklenburg was his uncle, with whose widow Thekla, born von Rothenberg (from the house of Erbach-Fürstenau) he was married.

Life

Grave slab from the grave of Prince Hermann von Schönburg-Waldenburg in the crypt of Hermsdorf Castle

After graduating from Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden , Hermann von Schönburg-Waldenburg initially embarked on a military career. As lieutenant à la suite he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin law . In 1886 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After graduating, he embarked on a diplomatic career and became a councilor . From 1907 to 1909 he was German consul general in Budapest . Afterwards he was Royal Prussian envoy to the Hanseatic cities. Von Schönburg-Waldenburg was the owner of the Fideikommissherrschaft Schneeberg in Krain and the manors Hermsdorf and Grünberg in Saxony . He was the Royal Saxon Major à la suite and last lived at Hermsdorf Castle near Radeberg .

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf 1902, p. 217
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 214

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data based on Hermann Georg Viktor Adolf Prince von Schönburg-Waldenburg on www.geneall.net
  2. ↑ Schönburg. In: Genealogical manual of the princely houses. Volume 1 (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 1). Verlag von CA Starke, Glücksburg / Ostsee, 1951, pp. 362–374, especially p. 365
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 609
  4. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 87 .

See also

personal data
SURNAME Schönburg-Waldenburg, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönburg-Waldenburg, Hermann Prince of; Schönburg-Waldenburg, Hermann Georg Victor Adolf Prince von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, entertainer and owner of the manor
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1943
Place of death Hermsdorf