Otto I. zu Salm-Horstmar

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Coat of arms of the Prince of Salm-Horstmar, 1850

Otto I. Friedrich Karl Prince of Salm-Horstmar (born February 8, 1833 in Coesfeld , † February 15, 1892 in Bonn ) was a German nobleman ( Salm-Horstmar ) and politician .

family

Otto I. zu Salm-Horstmar came from the Grumbach line of the Salm family, which belonged to the high nobility . The Wild and Rhine Counts Salm-Grumbach were masters of the Grafschaft Horstmar , which was independent for a few years between 1802 and 1806 and which became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 through the Rhine Confederation Act . After an annexation by France, during which the area was incorporated into the Lippe department between 1811 and 1813 , and an interim administration by the Generalgouvernement between Weser and Rhine , it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 ; there the counts of Salm-Grumbach were raised to the hereditary Prussian prince status in 1816 and called themselves Salm-Horstmar from then on.

He was the second son of Friedrich zu Salm-Horstmar (1799-1865) and his wife Elisabeth, born zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (1806-1886). His maternal grandfather was the Rhine Count Volrath Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (born December 6, 1762 in Assenheim ; † February 5, 1818 in Rödelheim ).

Life

Prince Otto I zu Salm-Horstmar was a hereditary member of the Prussian mansion from 1866 until his death , as head of a formerly imperial house in Prussia for the county of Horstmar. He was also a colonel à la suite in the army .

progeny

Prince Otto I. zu Salm-Horstmar married Countess Emilie zur Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1864 (* February 1, 1841, † February 11, 1892). With this he had the following seven children:

  • Friedrich Julius Carl Ernst Casimir Max (* June 18, 1865 - January 21, 1871) - Hereditary Prince of Salm-Horstmar,
  • Julius (6 May 1866 - 24 September 1866),
  • Otto Adalbert Friedrich August Gustav Alexander (* September 23, 1867 - March 2, 1941) - 3rd Prince of Salm-Horstmar,
  • Elisabeth Adelheid Mathilde Emma Karoline (* December 18, 1870 - July 4, 1953),
  • Wilhelm Julius Adolf Magnus Leopold Casimir Eduard (* May 30, 1872 - March 28, 1919),
  • Julius Friedrich Casimir Carl Emich (* February 24, 1881 - † August 13, 1901),
  • Emich Karl Rudolf Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (February 5, 1883 - May 10, 1959).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Köbler (ed.): Historical Lexicon of the German Lands - The German Territories from the Middle Ages to the Present . Beck-Verlag, 2007, p. 604 f.
  2. a b E. David (ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 145 ( online ).
  3. Genealogy