Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Hubertus and Sibylla , 1917

Dietmar Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born August 24, 1909 in Gotha ; †  November 26, 1943 near Groß-Mosty , Ukraine ) was a German prince and officer of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

origin

Hubertus von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha was the third of five children of Duke Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1884-1954), who ruled from 1905 to 1918, and Princess Viktoria Adelheid zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1885-1970 ). His siblings were Hereditary Prince Johann Leopold (1906–1972), Sibylla (1908–1972), the mother of Sweden's King Carl Gustaf , Caroline Mathilde (1912–1983), who married a Count zu Castell-Rüdenhausen and Friedrich Josias ( 1918–1998) a German businessman and from 1954 to 1998 head of the House of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha .

Cemetery of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the forest of Callenberg Castle

Life

Hubertus von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha initially received private lessons. He later attended the Casimirianum high school in Coburg . After the older brother Johann Leopold had renounced membership of the entire house in 1932 due to an inappropriate marriage, Hubertus was the designated successor to his father in the traditional role of head of the house . However, he was not ready to look for a wife. He was homosexual, which was evident during his student days. On October 1, 1939, Hubertus von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha joined the NSDAP ( membership number 7,213,588) and fought on the Eastern Front in World War II .

Most recently Hubertus von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha was deployed as a first lieutenant in a special assignment in the entourage of the general staff of the army ( high command of the army ) as a squadron captain. He died in a plane crash on November 26, 1943 at around 2:15 p.m. near Velyki Mosty in what was then the General Government (in today's Ukraine ). As a squadron leader of the flight readiness zbV he belonged to the crew of a Heinkel He 111 (VH + PH), with which the squadron commodore of Fliegerverbindungsgeschwader 2 wanted to visit his squadrons in Army Groups A and South .

The squadron's memorial service took place on November 30, 1943 in Hall IV of the Lötzen Air Base in East Prussia in the presence of the commandant of the OKH headquarters, Lieutenant General Walter von Gündell . The body of Hubertus von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha was buried in the cemetery for the members of the princely house of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha in the Callenberg Forest.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 505.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Dietmar Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm Philip Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Harald Sandner: Hitler's Duke - Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha - The biography . Shaker Media, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86858-598-8 .
  3. ^ Obituary for the squadron commodore Major Dr. Paul Ludwig Buchholz, taken from the "memory folder for the first commodore of Fliegerverbindungsgeschwader 2". The folder was handed over to the family members and mourners present at the funeral service by Lieutenant Schmid, who was Buchholz's last adjutant.
personal data
SURNAME Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Hubertus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Dietmar Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp Prince von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prince and officer of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1943
Place of death near Groß-Mosty , Ukraine