Kraft to Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Kraft Alexander Ernst Ludwig Georg Emich zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born June 25, 1935 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † March 16, 2004 ibid) was head of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg house from 1960 to 2004 and called himself Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg as such .
family
Kraft Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born as the first son of Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Margarita of Greece . His mother was the eldest daughter of Andreas of Greece and Denmark and his wife Alice von Battenberg . His mother's brother and thus his uncle is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , consort of the British Queen. Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was thus a cousin of the British heir to the throne Prince Charles and thus next to Maximilian Andreas von Baden the closest relative of the British royal family in Germany.
Through his grandmother Alexandra von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , a granddaughter of Queen Victoria , he was ranked 74th in the British line of succession in 1961, a list of thousands of people.
Life
He was trained as a forester and banker and took over the Langenburg estate at the age of 25 after the death of his father.
On the night of January 23rd to 24th, 1963, a fireplace fire almost completely destroyed Langenburg Castle . The fire destroyed the entire east wing, the clock and bed tower and parts of the north wing. The renovation costs of five million DM could only be raised through the sale of Weikersheim Castle in 1967 to the state of Baden-Württemberg . The British Queen Elizabeth II visited her relatives in Langenburg on her first state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1965 and had him show her the damage caused by the fire.
Hohenlohe-Langenburg was a member of the Protestant regional synod of Württemberg (1965 to 1974), a member of the district council (1965 to 1979), on the board of the DRK district association (1984 to 2000) and on the local parish council. He has been involved in various Rotary clubs since 1961 . From his public offices he withdrew as he got older and concentrated on the administration and maintenance of the castle, the one in the castle grounds, which he founded in 1969 with Richard von Frankenberg (1922–1973), opened in 1970 and was the first chairman of the German Automobile Museum he was responsible for the 2,700 hectare forest property around Langenburg and Weikersheim as well as his honorary posts as President of the General Schnauferl Club (1981-1993) and as President of the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (1983-1996). He was also secretary of the family association of the entire Hohenlohe house.
Hohenlohe-Langenburg died in the Diakonie Hospital in Hall of the consequences of a serious illness.
Marriages and offspring
In 1965 Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg married Charlotte Alexandra Princess von Croÿ (born December 31, 1938 in London ), daughter of Prince Alexander von Croÿ (1912–2002) and Anne, daughter of Brigadier General William McLaren Campbell ( 1864-1924). The marriage ended in divorce in 1990. This marriage resulted in two daughters and the son Philipp (* 1970), who succeeded his father as head of the house under nobility law. After the divorce, Charlotte Alexandra married the bank director Johannes Freiherr von Twickel in 1993 .
On May 22nd, 1992 he married the Austrian Irma Pospesch (* 1946) in Graz . The marriage remained childless.
ancestors
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| Great grandparents |
Prince |
Prince |
King |
Prince |
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| Grandparents |
Prince Ernst II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863–1950) |
Prince Andreas of Greece (1882–1944) |
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| parents |
Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897–1960) |
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Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935-2004) |
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Web links
- Website Schloss Langenburg
- Website Automuseum Langenburg
- Kraft to Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Südwestpresse
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Haus Hohenlohe, excerpt from Paul Theroff's Online Gotha . Whether the name Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg with the part of the name, which is reminiscent of the first-born title Fürst , which is no longer hereditary , was ever the official name or whether the family name Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg remained the official form of his person's name throughout his life, Wikipedia is currently not known.
- ^ Genealogy Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Rodovid; accessed on July 14, 2016.
- ↑ William Addams Reitwiesner: Succession to the British throne in 1961. Retrieved on 4 August 2016th
- ↑ Manfred Mühlenstedt: Queen Elizabeth II still fondly remembers her visit to Hohenlohe . In: Hohenloher Tagblatt , May 26, 2015; accessed on July 28, 2016.
- ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
- ↑ Harald Zigan: Retirement was a foreign word for the prince . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . March 19, 2004 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 18, 2011]).
- ↑ Go for the William McLaren Campbell parade uniform ( memento of the original from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with biography about him (accessed on July 20, 2016)
- ^ Anne Elspeth Campbell on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Gottfried |
Head of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg House from 1960–2004 |
Philip |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hohenlohe-Langenburg, strength too |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Kraft Prinz zu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aristocratic descendant, head of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Hall |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 2004 |
| Place of death | Schwäbisch Hall |