Otto zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

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Otto Emil Karl Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born November 23, 1842 in Darmstadt ; †  May 9, 1911 ) was a German prince from the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein and lieutenant general.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg coat of arms

Life

Wittgenstein was the son of Prince August Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1788-1874), Lieutenant General and later Minister of State of Nassau , and his wife Franziska Maria Fortunata Allesina called von Schweitzer (1802-1878). Otto had 5 siblings: Emil Karl Adolf (1824), Anna Albertine Georgine (1827), Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil (1834), Philipp Karl Emil Georg (1836) and Franz Emil Luitpold (1842). See also: Sayn-Wittgenstein .

Prince Otto was a Prussian lieutenant general and served as a wing adjutant and general in the service of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .

In his free time he was literary, wrote a lifelong diary, comedies and pranks, "which he staged himself in lovers' performances and in which peers took on the roles".

Marriages and families

Prince Otto was married twice. On December 1, 1875, Countess Elisabeth zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn married in Vienna (* December 4, 1845, † May 20, 1883). The marriage remained childless. His second wife was on November 4, 1884 in Egern am Tegernsee Countess Eleonore Kasimira Ludovica zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (born March 31, 1840 - September 19, 1933), daughter of Count Gustav Franz Karl Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and Salisbury Harriet Pigott.

Honors

literature

  • Lothar Ehrlich, Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: heirs, patrons and politicians / [Weimar Classicism Foundation and Art Collections]. Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2004. ISBN 978-3-412-09203-0 .
  • Johannes Burkardt and Ulf Lückel: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Werl 2005. ISBN 3-9810315-0-4 .
  • Bernhard Post ; Dietrich Werner: Ruler at the turn of the century: Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, 1876–1923. Glaux, Jena 2006. ISBN 978-3-931743-94-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Ehrlich, Justus H. Ulbricht (ed.): Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: Heirs, Patrons and Politicians / [Weimar Classics Foundation and Art Collections]. Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2004. ISBN 978-3-412-09203-0 . P. 142.
  2. ^ Bernhard Post; Dietrich Werner: Ruler at the turn of the century: Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, 1876–1923. Glaux, Jena 2006. ISBN 978-3-931743-94-9 . P. 75.
  3. ↑ Marcus Stumpf: “Intoxicants in the archive!” , May 28, 2019. Access date: January 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ Genealogy
  5. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: for the year 1918. XLIV year. Vienna 1918. p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Otto zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Otto Emil Karl Prinz zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1911