Hessen-Rumpenheim
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Hessen-Rumpenheim , from 1875 Hessen-Kassel (-Rumpenheim) , is - next to the Hessen-Philippsthal -Barchfeld line - one of the two lines of the House of Hessen that still exist today . The common progenitor of the main line Hessen-Kassel , which provided the electors in the 19th century, and the landgrave's subsidiary line Hessen-Rumpenheim was Landgrave Friedrich II.
After the death of the last Hessian elector , Frederick William on January 6, 1875 exile in Prague, inherited as his children from the morganatic marriage with Gertrude Lehmann after the Hessian House Act of respect Fideikommissvermögens were not followed capable the side Hessen-Rumpenheim. From 1875 the Hessen-Kassel branch line Hessen-Rumpenheim takes the place of Hessen-Kassel, the oldest line in the House of Hessen, and can be addressed as Hessen-Kassel or Hessen-Kassel (-Rumpenheim). Since Kurhessen had been annexed by Prussia in 1866, this title was no longer associated with any political power.
Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Rumpenheim (1868–1940) had been elected King of Finland as Fredrik Kaarle in 1918, but was unable to take up this post before the German defeat in the First World War .
On January 26, 1997, with the death of Princess Margaret , the Hessen-Darmstadt line also went out . Their inheritance also fell to the Rumpenheimers. After more than 400 years of separation, the separation of the two main lines of the House of Hesse (in Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt), which had a decisive influence on Hessian and German history for a long time, ended. Landgrave Heinrich Donatus von Hessen (* 1966), who manages the family heritage bundled in the Hessian House Foundation, is now head of the House of Hesse .