Karl zu Leiningen (1898–1946)

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Friedrich Karl Eduard Erwin Prince of Leiningen (born February 13, 1898 in Strasbourg ; † August 2, 1946 in Saransk ( Russia )) was a German officer and called himself from 1939 according to the house tradition the sixth " Prince of Leiningen ".

origin

Karl zu Leiningen from the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg line was the son of Prince Emich zu Leiningen (1866-1939) and Princess Feodora, born Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1866-1932). Due to his mother's ancestry, he was also on the list of heir to the throne of Sweden . He belonged to the Evangelical Church.

Life

During the Second World War, Karl zu Leiningen served as a corvette captain in the German navy . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and placed in a camp in Saransk (Russia), where he died of starvation on August 2, 1946.

Marriage and offspring

Karl married on November 25, 1925 in Langenburg Maria Kirillovna (* February 2, 1907, † October 27, 1951), the eldest daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Kyrill Wladimirowitsch Romanow and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . The marriage had seven children:

  • Emich Kyrill Ferdinand Hermann (1926–1991), head of the Leiningen family, ∞ Eilika von Oldenburg (1928–2016)
  • Karl Wladimir Ernst Heinrich (1928–1990)
  • Kira Melita Feodora Marie Victoria Alexandra (1930–)
  • Margarita Ileana Victoria (born May 9, 1932 in Coburg; † June 16, 1996 in Überlingen) ∞ Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern (1924–2010)
  • Mechtilde Alexandra (1936–) ∞ Karl-Anton Bauscher (* 1931)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold (1938–1998)
  • Peter Victor (1942–1943)

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Leiningen house. 900 years of total history with ancestral sequences. German princely houses. Issue 32.Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811993-9-0 .

Supporting documents and comments

  1. ↑ Article 109 WRV ( Weimar Constitution of August 11, 1919) stipulates that the privileges or disadvantages under public law of birth or status are to be abolished. Denominations of nobility are only [no longer] part of the name and may no longer be awarded. In the case of the descendants of the former Princely House of Leiningen , all family members of the Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg line have since carried the family name Prinz or Princess zu Leiningen . The name designation Fürst zu Leiningen , which goes back to the no longer existing and inheritable primogeniture nobility , using the first-born title "Fürst" as a component of the name (only for the heads of the family) is in non-official contexts similar to the provisions of the pseudonym as a form of courtesy based on the tradition of the family predominantly used in literature as well as in society. Wikipedia does not know whether the name that is relevant for registration purposes has always remained Prince zu Leiningen after the death of the last entitled person in 1939 . In some similar cases, title holders authorized under nobility law succeeded in having the part of the name Fürst entered in their documents due to the goodwill of the local authority. See Wilfried Rogasch : Schnellkurs Adel , DuMont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-8321-7617-4 , p. 17 f.
  2. ^ House Leiningen in Online Gotha by Paul Theroff
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen, Karl too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen, Friedrich Karl Eduard Erwin Fürst to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and Prince of Leiningen
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1946
Place of death Saransk