Hugo Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen

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Hugo Friedrich Prince zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen , later Count von Hermersberg (born September 26, 1864 in Slawentzitz , district of Cosel , province of Silesia ; † October 31, 1928 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German administrative officer and financial investor.

Prince Hugo and Madame Helga, 1904

Life

His parents were the general, politician and mining industrialist Hugo Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Princess Pauline nee. Princess of Fürstenberg . After attending the Liegnitz Knight Academy , he studied law and camera science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1885 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg and the Corps Borussia Bonn . He was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1895 to 1901 he was district administrator for the district of Rosenberg OS

He then went to the USA as a trainee for German-American Banking for two years . In 1904 he married the circus rider Helga Hager Verw. von Freysleben (1877–1951), granddaughter of the circus founder Ernst Renz . He then had to give up his prince title and changed his name to Graf von Hermersberg . Hohenlohe was active as an investor in a wide variety of commercial and industrial companies. He sat u. a. on the supervisory board of the Palestine Bank and Hohenlohe-Werke AG. In the spring of 1913 he went bankrupt. A debt burden of around 4.7 million marks was practically no more assets.

He was a first lieutenant à la suite in the army.

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf 1902, p. 211.
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 207.
  • Christian Bommarius: The prince's trust . Emperors, nobility, speculators. Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946334-14-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hohenlohe on www.angelfire.com
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 120 , 1223
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 589
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945 , May 2014 district Rosenberg OS
  5. ^ Main State Archives Stuttgart E 156 Bü 209, Hermersberg, Count von - Change of name of Prince Hugo von Hohenlohe-Öhringen to "Hugo Graf von Hermersberg" / 1904-1913
  6. ↑ GAVE UP TITLE WED CIRCUS RIDER in The Washington Post 3 March 1907, Page 166th
personal data
SURNAME Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Hugo Prinz zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Hugo Friedrich Prinz zu; Hermersberg, Hugo Friedrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and financial investor
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Slawentzitz , district of Cosel
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1928
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde