Karl Friedrich (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)

Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born January 9, 1724 in Sigmaringen , † December 20, 1785 in Krauchenwies ) was Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , Lord of Haigerloch and Wehrstein from 1769 to 1785 .

Life

Karl Friedrich was the son of Prince Joseph Friedrich Ernst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1702–1769) from his first marriage to Marie Franziska (1703–1737), daughter of Prince Franz Albrecht zu Oettingen-Spielberg . The prince was first brought up in Sigmaringen and Munich . This was followed by training at the universities of Freiburg , Göttingen and Ingolstadt . He returned to Sigmaringen in 1746 and soon afterwards undertook a cavalier tour, a kind of educational journey, through Germany, Austria and Italy , which took him to several large courts.

Karl Friedrich then went to see his relatives in the Netherlands . It was there that he met his future wife. He married on March 2, 1749 at Schloss Kail Johanna (1727–1787), daughter of Count Franz Wilhelm von Hohenzollern-Berg . The marriage was not only concluded for political reasons, but rather Karl Friedrich had a deep affection for his fiancée and wife. Johanna was heiress to the lucrative Dutch county of Bergh-s'Heerenberg . After the marriage, he stayed on the estates of his Dutch father-in-law more often than in the principality of his family.

Karl Friedrichs experienced the Seven Years' War on the side of Maria Theresa of Austria against Prussia . Until 1763 he served in a cavalry regiment as part of the troops of the Swabian Empire . The troops fought hard against the Prussian cavalry led by Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz . The military conflict had almost no effects on Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, which favored the development of the economy. Karl Friedrich was Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire and Lieutenant General Field Marshal of the Swabian Empire . Otherwise the prince was very enthusiastic about hunting.

progeny

From his marriage to Johanna, Karl Friedrich had the following descendants:

• Friedrich (* / † 1750)
• Johann (* / † 1751)
• Anton (* / † 1752)
• Fidelis (1752-1753)
• Marie (1754–1755)
• Joachim (1755–1756)
• Joseph (1758–1759)
• Franz (1761–1762)
• Anton Alois (1762–1831), Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

⚭ 1782 Princess Amalie Zephyrine zu Salm-Kyrburg (1760–1841)

• Karoline (* / † 1763)
• Johanna Franziska (1765–1790)

⚭ 1781 Prince Friedrich III. zu Salm-Kyrburg (1745–1794)

• Maria Kreszentia (1766-1844)

⚭ 1807 Count Franz Xaver Nikolaus Fischler von Treuberg (1775–1835)

See also

• Tribe list of the Hohenzollern

literature

• Otto Hintze : The Hohenzollern and their work 1415-1915. Verlag A. Steiger, Solingen 1982, ISBN 3-921564-18-2 .
• EG Johler: History, geography and local history of the sovereign German principalities of Hohenzollern, Hechingen and Sigmaringen. Stettin'sche Buchhandlung. Ulm 1824, p. 68 .
• J. Reiner: Genealogy of the High Princely House of Hohenzollern: A contribution to the history of the same , Stuttgart 1843 e-book
• Gustav Schilling: History of the House of Hohenzollern in genealogically continuous biographies of all its rulers from the oldest to the most recent times, according to documents and other authentic sources. Fleischer, Leipzig 1843, p. 287ff.
• Günter Schmitt : Sigmaringen. In: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 41-62.

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Friedrich Ernst	Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1769–1785	Anton Aloys