Moritz of Hesse

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Moritz Landgrave of Hesse in Kronberg Castle , November 2010

Moritz Landgraf von Hessen (actually: Moritz Prince and Landgrave of Hessen ; Italian Maurizio d'Assia ; *  August 6, 1926 in Racconigi Castle , Piedmont ; † May 23, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German entrepreneur and since 1980 head of the formerly ruling house of Hesse .

Names

Moritz Friedrich Karl Emmanuel Humbert Prince and Landgrave of Hesse acted as head of the House of Hesse by shortening the civil name using only the part of the name " Landgrave " and was therefore known as Moritz Landgrave of Hesse . The house of the former Grand Dukes of Hesse and the Rhine (Hessen-Darmstadt line) had the family name "Prince of Hesse and the Rhine". Their last agnate Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein and his wife Margaret von Hessen und bei Rhein , daughter of Lord Auckland Geddes, adopted Moritz Prince and Landgrave of Hessen in 1960. Since then he has had both names, until in 1988 he dropped the part of the name "Prince of Hesse and the Rhine" again.

Life

Moritz von Hessen (left) with his mother Mafalda and brother Heinrich , around 1930

Moritz von Hessen was the eldest son of Philip of Hessen and Princess Mafalda of Savoy , a daughter of King Victor Emanuel III. from Italy . He was a great-grandson of Emperor Friedrich III. and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria . He came from the younger, landgrave branch Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim of the electoral main line Hessen-Kassel of the House of Hessen.

Moritz von Hessen, called Maurizio d'Assia in his youth, spent the first years of his life in Rome and Kassel . After his mother's death in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 , he lived in Kronberg im Taunus . After serving in the military, he studied agriculture. He administered the Panker estate in Schleswig-Holstein .

Moritz of Hesse-Kassel was founded in 1960 by Ludwig Prince of Hesse and by Rhine († 1968), the childless leader of the other main line of Hesse-Darmstadt in Hessen Haus, adopted as well as heritage used. Through the inheritance, the two main lines, which had been separate since 1567, were reunited in his person.

He succeeded his father Philipp von Hessen in 1980 as head of the House of Hessen (main line Hessen-Kassel) in accordance with the traditional provisions of the house law and united the house with the second main line (Hessen-Darmstadt) as the heir of his adoptive father Ludwig von Hessen .

Moritz von Hessen in front of Friedrichshof Palace , 2010

He brought a considerable part of the family assets of both houses into the Hessische Hausstiftung and, as chairman of the foundation, headed the administration of the historical cultural property . After the Second World War, many valuable exhibits from numerous other castles belonging to the family were collected and exhibited in the Fasanerie (Adolphseck) hunting lodge near Fulda , which the House of Hessen-Kassel won with Napoleon's defeat . The 5-star hotels Hessischer Hof in Frankfurt and the Schlosshotel Kronberg , the Prinz von Hessen winery in Geisenheim / Rheingau and the Panker castle and stud in Holstein Switzerland also became assets of the foundation. The Tarasp Castle in the Lower Engadine was also part of the family until 2012. Moritz von Hessen initially lived mainly at Gut Panker , since the death of his aunt and adoptive mother Margaret von Hessen and near the Rhine in 1997 in Wolfsgarten Castle .

Moritz von Hessen was an important art patron in Hessen and was awarded one of the highest awards in the state of Hessen , the Georg August Zinn Medal , in 1999. He was also committed to the Institute for New Technical Form in Darmstadt and sponsored the Kronberg Academy .

Moritz von Hessen died at the age of 86 in a Frankfurt hospital of a lung disease. The funeral service took place on June 3, 2013 with the laying out in the St. Johanniskirche in Kronberg im Taunus . He was buried in the Kronberg Castle Cemetery.

family

ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse (1820-1884)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Friedrich Karl of Hesse (1868–1940)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna of Prussia (1836–1918)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Philip of Hesse (1896–1980)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Emperor Friedrich III. (1831-1888)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Margarethe of Prussia (1872–1954)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Victoria of Great Britain (1840-1901)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Moritz of Hesse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 King Umberto I of Italy (1844–1900)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869–1947)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Margaret of Italy (1851-1926)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mafalda of Savoy (1902–1944)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nikola I of Montenegro (1841-1921)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elena of Montenegro (1873-1952)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Milena of Montenegro (1847-1923)
 
 
 
 
 
 

progeny

With his divorced wife Tatiana Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* 1940), daughter of Gustav Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Moritz von Hessen became the father of four children:

literature

Web links

Commons : Moritz von Hessen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckhart G. Franz : The House of Hesse. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018919-0 , p. 205.
  2. ↑ The first names are e.g. B. also mentioned in the online Gotha by Paul Theroff
  3. ↑ Since 1919, due to the abolition of the privileges of the nobility, no earlier birthright titles have been part of the civil name in Germany. According to information from the family archive of the Hessian House Foundation , the question of the name is as follows: "If you ask for the family name, it is 'Prince and Landgrave of Hesse' for all members of the House of Hesse since 1920" ". The Frankfurt am Main district court confirmed this name on December 22, 1956. “Landgraf” is part of the civil-legal name and not an outdated primogeneity title. And yet, to a certain extent, it is handled that way: by virtue of the fact that all other family members shorten their names to “Prince / essin of Hesse” in public appearances, and only the head of the house shortens his name to “Landgrave of Hesse”.
  4. ↑ Langen's adoption confirmed by an official court on December 4, 1961. See Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Fürstliche Häuser Volume XVI, Limburg an der Lahn 2001, p. 33.
  5. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Princely Houses, Volume XVI, Limburg ad Lahn, 2001, p. 33.
  6. ↑ https://archiv.berliner-zeitung.de/landgraf-moritz-von-hessen-im-alter-von-86-jahren-gestorben-6506812
  7. ↑ https://archiv.berliner-zeitung.de/europaeischer-hochadel-nnahm-lösungen-von-moritz-von-hessen-6471064
  8. ^ Corona on June 4, 2013: Funeral of HRH Landgrave Moritz von Hessen (accessed on June 11, 2013)
predecessor Office successor
Philip Head of the House of Hesse
1980–2013 		Heinrich Donatus
personal data
SURNAME Hessen, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurizio d'Assia; Hessen, Moritz Friedrich Karl Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, head of the House of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Racconigi near Turin
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2013
Place of death Frankfurt am Main