Hugo III Henckel von Donnersmarck

Hugo III Count Henckel von Donnersmarck ; Middle names: Amand Łazarz Artur (born February 19, 1857 in Siemianowitz , Silesia ; † June 11, 1923 in Krawarn , Silesia) was a Silesian magnate , lawyer and officer . From 1908 to 1918 he was a freelance gentleman of Beuthen in Upper Silesia.

Life

Count Henckel von Donnersmarck was born in Siemianowitz in 1857 as the first son of Count Hugo II. Henckel von Donnersmarck and his wife Wanda, née von Gaschin . On his father's side, his family comes from the Silesian nobility Henckel von Donnersmarck . His grandfather was the German-Austrian mining industrialist Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck . Hugo III Siblings were Sara, Edgar , Ellinor, Margit and Irmgard.

He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until he graduated from high school in 1879 . He then became a Royal Prussian officer in the Uhlan Regiment “von Katzler” (Silesian) No. 2 in Gleiwitz-Pleß and lastly held the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve. He studied law and received his doctorate iuris utriusque . He was the ducal Saxon-Coburg-Gotha court hunter master and royal Saxon court assessor. Von Donnersmarck was made a Knight of Honor of the Sovereign Order of Malta . In 1893 he bought the Jakobskirch estate near Groß-Glogau near Breslau.

On September 14, 1882, he married Anna (1854–1905), daughter of the Saxon cavalry general and Minister of State Alfred von Fabrice , in Dresden. Their daughter Anna Wanda was born on November 22, 1894. She married the tournament rider Wilhelm von Hohenau , a great-grandson of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

Hugo III was from 1908 to 1918 freelance gentleman of Beuthen in Upper Silesia. After the death of Hugo II (1908), he was also the eldest son for the economic inheritance . However, since he only had one daughter himself, he left the property to his brother Edgar. The Count died in Krowiarki in 1923 and was buried in the family mausoleum in the Polish Krawarn Castle.

ancestors

Pedigree of Hugo III. Count Henckel von Donnersmarck
Great-great-grandparents	Lazarus III, Count Henckel Freiherr von Donnersmarck (1729–1805) ⚭ Antonia, Countess of Praschma (1753–1818)	Maria Anton Karl Borromäus Alexander Johann Nepomuk Franz de Paula Joseph Ignatius Wengersky (1760–1814) ⚭ Maria Anna Antonia Helene Carolina Skrbensky-Hrzistie (1763–1850)	? ⚭ ?	? ⚭ ?	? ⚭ ?	? ⚭ ?	? ⚭ ?	? ⚭ ?
Great grandparents	Carl Borromäus Joseph Franz de Paula, Count Henckel Freiherr von Donnersmarck (1784–1813) ⚭ 1810 Eugenie Friederike Ludovica Maria Anna, Countess Wengersky (1790–1858)		? ⚭ ?		Leopold, Count von Gaschin Edler Herr zu Rosenberg (1790–1848) ⚭ Ernestine von Strachwitz (1790–1836)		Jan, Count Leszczye von Sumin-Suminski (1786–1839) ⚭ Julie von Lubraniec-Dambska (1792–1863)
Grandparents	Hugo Karl Anton Lazarus, Count Henckel Freiherr von Donnersmarck (1811–1890) ⚭ 1830 Laura, Countess von Hardenberg (1792–1847)				Amand, Count von Gaschin Freiherr zu Rosenberg (1815–1866) ⚭ 1837 Fanny Leszczye von Sumin-Suminska (1818–1879)
parents	Hugo II Karl Lazarus Eugen Friedrich Henckel, Count von Donnersmarck (1832–1908) ⚭ 1856 Jeannette Wanda Francisca Malwina, Countess von Gaschin Noble Mistress of Rosenberg (1837–1908)
Hugo III Amand Lazarus Artur Henckel, Count von Donnersmarck (1857–1923) ⚭ Anna, Countess von Fabrice (1854–1905)

literature

Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Who is who? The German WHO's WHO. Volume 3, Arani Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 542.
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, at the same time the nobility register of the German aristocratic association . Part A, Volume 109 (1936), Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1935, p. 166.

Web links

The Counts of Krowiarki Castle

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 65.
↑ Silesia (Silesia) . worldleadersindex.org. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
↑ Christian Blinzer (Ed.): Constantly in motion. Margit Countess Szápáry (1871–1943). Pfeifenberger, Tamsweg 2007, ISBN 978-3-901496-12-7 , p. 47.

personal data
SURNAME	Henckel von Donnersmarck, Hugo III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henckel von Donnersmarck, Hugo III. Amand Łazarz Artur Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German magnate, lawyer and officer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 19, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Siemianowitz
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 1923
Place of death	Cravat

[1] Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 65.

[2] Silesia (Silesia) . worldleadersindex.org. Retrieved February 22, 2012.

[3] Christian Blinzer (Ed.): Constantly in motion. Margit Countess Szápáry (1871–1943). Pfeifenberger, Tamsweg 2007, ISBN 978-3-901496-12-7 , p. 47.