Otto Heinrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe

Otto Heinrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe (born September 13, 1854 in Bückeburg , † August 18, 1935 in Cottbus ) was a prince of the house of Schaumburg-Lippe .

Life

Otto Heinrich was born in September 1854 as the fifth of eight children of Adolf I. Georg (Schaumburg-Lippe) and his wife Princess Hermine zu Waldeck-Pyrmont (1827-1910).

Together with his brother Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe , who was five years his junior , he was raised from 1872 to 1874 by Hubert Maximilian Ermisch (1850-1932). Prince Adolf later married a younger sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Otto Heinrich embarked on an officer career and was ultimately a colonel . For a few years he was stationed on the German-French border near Metz . He married Anna Luise Elise von Köppen (1860–1932) in Elsen near Herford on November 28, 1893 , whose family, as the owners of the Ringelsbruch estate, only belonged to the postal service . Although the bride was made Countess von Hagenburg , the marriage was not befitting and therefore only morganatic , the wife and their children therefore bore the name Hagenburg. The couple lived for some time in the Moselle department in Longeville-lès-Metz , which belonged to the German Empire after 1871. Her three children were born there: Wilhelm Graf von Hagenburg (1895–1945), Hermine Countess von Hagenburg (1898–1963) and Otto Heinrich Graf von Hagenburg (1901–1993).

The family moved to Darmstadt in 1908 and acquired the insolvent Parkhotel , which they had converted in 1910/1911 by the Darmstadt architect Jakob Krug (1877–1965). The building was lavishly designed with decorative elements in Art Nouveau style. Ceramic tiles by Jakob Julius Scharvogel were installed in the main staircase . From then on the house was called Haus Hagenburg . In addition to a spacious, park-like garden, it also had a large riding stables in which the owners' numerous horses were kept.

From April 12, 1922, Otto Heinrich Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe and his wife helped found the vehicle factory AG Darmstadt (FAFAG). The company ran into financial difficulties due to insufficient production figures. On September 8, 1924, insolvency proceedings had to be opened against the assets of the stock corporation, which were finally discontinued on November 5, 1928 for lack of assets. The invested capital was lost.

The Darmstadt property was sold as early as 1925 and the couple moved to Cottbus . Anna Countess von Hagenburg died there at the age of 72 and Otto Heinrich Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe in 1935 at the age of almost 81.

literature

• Eckhart G. Franz , Christina Wagner (arrangement): Darmstadt calendar. Data on the history of our city. Darmstadt 1994, p. 156.
• Otto Heinrich Count Hagenburg. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 342 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Zaretzky:  Adolf Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 361-663.