Hermann zu Wied
Wilhelm Hermann Karl Fürst zu Wied (* May 22, 1814 in Neuwied ; † March 5, 1864 ibid), also known as Hermann Fürst zu Wied , was the 4th Prince of Wied , registrar in the Kingdom of Prussia and the last president of the " Mainzer Aristocratic Association ”.
family
He was the son of Johann August Karl Fürst zu Wied (1779-1836), 3rd Prince of Wied, and Princess Sophie Auguste zu Solms-Braunfels (1796-1855).
He married on June 20, 1842 in Biebrich Princess Marie of Nassau (born January 29, 1825 at Biebrich Castle ; † March 24, 1902 in the Segenhaus near Neuwied), the daughter of Duke Wilhelm von Nassau (1792-1839) and his first wife Princess Luise of Saxony-Hildburghausen (1794–1825). Marie was the sister of Duke Adolf von Nassau .
The marriage had three children:
- Elisabeth zu Wied (1843–1916), she married King Karl I of Romania in 1869 from the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .
- Prince Wilhelm zu Wied (1845–1907), who in 1871 was Marie von Oranien-Nassau, Princess of the Netherlands (1841–1910), a granddaughter of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and married by King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands .
- Otto (1850–1862)
Life
Hermann Prinz zu Wied studied in Göttingen and Bonn and was aggregated as a second lieutenant in the Guard Cuirassier Regiment in 1834 . After the death of his father in 1836 he became the 4th Prince of Wied. In this context he received his retirement as Rittmeister in the same year and transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Guards Landwehr Regiment. In 1839, Wied received the character of a major and became leader of the 2nd contingent of the 1st Battalion (Neuwied) of the 29th Landwehr Regiment. He then advanced to colonel in 1845 and at the same time became chief of the 29th Landwehr Regiment. In the troubled revolutionary year of 1848 , he irrevocably renounced all government rights by contract for himself and his descendants and on October 30, 1848, the Princely Wied government was dissolved. From 1845 to 1864 he was a member of the provincial assembly of the Rhine Province . However, he only took part in parliamentary deliberations in the first United State Parliament in 1845 and 1847 . In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .
As early as 1842 he was one of the founders of the Mainz Adelsverein (also known as the "Association for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas"), along with 20 other nobles, mostly representatives of the high nobility , in whose presidency Karl Fürst zu Leiningen (1804 -1856) followed. The Neu Wied settlement , a few kilometers north of New Braunfels on the Guadalupe River in eastern Comal County , was built as a larger orphanage with an integrated school after the epidemic of 1846 when more than 300 German settlers in the region had died. Later it developed into a college and university. There is also Wied (Texas) in Lavaca County .
Finally Wied 1858 the character of Major General received and 1861 to lieutenant general.
literature
- Elisabeth Heimpel: Carmen Sylva. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 149 ( digitized version ).
- Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 6, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , pp. 459-460, no. 2077.
- Roentgen Museum Neuwied (Ed.): Celebrations and guests on the Rhine. The Princely House of Wied at the time of Romanticism. Accompanying publication to the exhibition of the same name, Neuwied 2002.
- Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 338–339.
Individual evidence
- ^ Family tree of the mediatized house of Wied , 1884, page 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wied, Hermann too |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wied, Wilhelm Hermann Karl Fürst zu (full name); Wied, Hermann Fürst zu (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | 4. Prince of Wied |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuwied |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1864 |
| Place of death | Neuwied |