Reinhard August zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen

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Reinhard August Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen, as his ancestor Count Emich II, painted by Guido Philipp Schmitt , 1913
Reinhard August Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen, as his ancestor Count Emich II., Bronze relief at the Röhrbrunnen, Hauptstrasse, Grünstadt

Reinhard August Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen (born March 18, 1863 in Gorizia (then Austria-Hungary, now Italy), † July 26, 1929 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a Count of Leiningen and a Prussian officer.

family

Reinhard August was the son of the Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Field Marshal Viktor August Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen (1821–1880) and his wife (and niece) Marie zu Leiningen-Westerburg (1831–1863), daughter of his eldest brother Friedrich II. Eduard (1806-1868).

Life

The mother died as a result of the childbirth and Reinhard August became a soldier like the father. He joined the Prussian Army , but took his leave as early as 1884, as a lieutenant in the 1st Guard Dragoons Regiment "Queen of England".

Then he lived as a privateer in Austria and belonged to the circle of Crown Prince Rudolf . On July 26, 1885, he married his former lover Anna Stefanie geb. Pick, widowed noble von Böhm. As Mina Pick, she was a well-known actress at Vienna's Gray Theater.

Both bought the Mayerling estate and sold it in 1886 to the Crown Prince, who had it expanded into a hunting lodge, in which he shot his lover Mary Vetsera and himself in 1889 .

With the money raised from this, the couple bought Harbach Castle near Klagenfurt , which they sold to Baroness Maria Mayerhofer von Grünbühel in 1889, who set up a monastery there

In 1895 the marriage between Count Reinhard August and Anna Stefanie, geb. Pick divorced; in 1899 he married Clara Susanne Marie b. Volk (1871-1943). The couple moved to Garmisch at the beginning of the 20th century, where they both lived until their deaths. Here Reinhard August Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen was very popular and generally loved, especially because of his amiable nature and his elegant appearance. He is portrayed as always friendly, peaceable and affable, dealt extensively with researching his house history, owned a large collection of Leininger coins and is said to have been very educated both legally and botanically.

Count Reinhard August had himself portrayed by Guido Philipp Schmitt in 1913 as his ancestor Emich II von Leiningen († before 1138), builder of the Altleiningen family castle and founder of the Höningen monastery . The city of Grünstadt , former residence of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg, received the painting as a gift from the painter's cousin, the entrepreneur Carl Leonhard from Heidelberg . Shortly thereafter, the bronze relief of the Emich or Röhrbrunnen, also donated by Carl Leonhard, was designed in the main street there, so that Reinhard August zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen has been represented twice in the city to this day. With him, the Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen family line became extinct.

One of his father's brothers was Count Karl August zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen (1819–1849), who was hanged as a Hungarian freedom fighter.

literature

  • Hans Heiberger: The Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg: Origin, Gloss, Decline , Kiliandruck, Grünstadt, ISBN 3-924386-00-5 , pp. 109–111
  • Hans Heiberger: The End of the Counts of Leiningen Westerburg Verlag Klaus Dinges, Grünstadt 2000, ISBN 3-9806596-1-5 , p. 45
  • Robert Carius: Obituary for Count Reinhard von Leiningen-Westerburg , in Neue Leininger Blätter , Altertumsverein Grünstadt , born 1930, p. 65

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karmel Mayerling website
  2. ↑ Schloss Mayerling website
  3. ↑ Georg Markus: Fundstücke: My journeys of discovery into history , Amalthea Signum Verlag, 2017, ISBN 390308381X , without page numbers; Digital view
  4. ↑ Ingrid Haslinger: Rudolf was always a good son: Mayerling was completely different , BoD - Books on Demand, 2016, p. 68, ISBN 3990500422 ; Digital view
  5. ^ Website on Harbach Castle with mention of Count Leiningen as the owner
  6. ↑ Kärntens Burgen und Schlösser , Birken Verlag, 1964, p. 57; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen, Reinhard August zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen, Reinhard August Friedrich Christian Graf too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian count, Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorizia
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1929
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen