Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg
Sophie Charlotte von Oldenburg (born February 2, 1879 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † March 29, 1964 in Westerstede ) was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich August II of Oldenburg and his first wife Elisabeth Anna of Prussia . After her marriage to Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia , Sophie Charlotte was also known as Princess Eitel Friedrich, using the language customary at the time .
family
On February 27, 1906, Duchess Sophie Charlotte married the Emperor's second eldest son , Eitel Friedrich von Prussia, in Berlin .
There was already a closer family connection between the Hohenzollern and Oldenburg houses . Sophie Charlotte's mother was the native Prussian Princess Elisabeth Anna. The bride and groom had King Friedrich Wilhelm III as their great-great-grandparents . of Prussia and Queen Luise .
When the Oldenburg Hereditary Grand Duke had his first child in 1879, the parents tied the name to Prussian history: The daughter was named after Sophie Charlotte von Hannover , the wife of the first Prussian King Friedrich I. Prince Eitel Friedrich also had about his mother , Empress Auguste Viktoria, common ancestors with his bride: The Empress, born Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, like the Oldenburg dukes from the Holstein-Gottorp family, descended from the first Danish kings from the Earl of Oldenburg.
wedding
The wedding was celebrated at great expense. As was customary at princely weddings at the time, the wedding gifts were displayed to the public in the palace. In addition to valuable jewelry, silver utensils, bronze statues, a chandelier, the gifts also included embroidery and other handicrafts, as well as paintings by artists known at least in north-west Germany such as Georg Müller vom Siel (“a large landscape”), Paul Müller-Kaempff (“moonrise” on the Darß, the prince's hunting ground), Karl Langenhorst (a life-size picture of Sophie Charlotte's early deceased mother), Hugo Duphorn ("Waldbild aus Rastede"); Bernhard Winter had designed the title page of a score folder.
On February 27, the celebrations took place in the royal palace in Berlin. After the empress had put the princess crown on the bride, the civil marriage took place in the Kurfürstensaal.
The church wedding of Prince Eitel Friedrich von Prussia with Duchess Sophie Charlotte von Oldenburg began at 5 pm in the palace chapel ; The wedding speech was held by the court preacher Ernst Dryander . Then the imperial couple and the newlywed couple accepted the congratulations from the wedding guests in the picture gallery.
Married life
The couple first lived in Hubertusstock Palace in Schorfheide, the imperial hunting area, where they spent their honeymoon, and then moved into the Ingenheim villa in Potsdam . When sailors occupied the Marble Palace after the end of the First World War , Prince Eitel Friedrich took the Empress into this villa, she stayed here until she left for the Netherlands, where the Emperor lived in exile.
The marriage between Eitel Friedrich and Sophie Charlotte remained childless and divorced in 1926. Eitel Friedrich did not remarry. Sophie Charlotte, however, married the captain Harald von Hedemann the following year . She lived with him in Rastede , first in the palace , then from the early 1930s in the villa built for her on the edge of the Hankhauser park in Rastede . In 1930 she joined the NSDAP after the list of party members who were members of princely houses and was registered under membership number 306.866. After the death of her husband in 1951, the Duchess moved into a small house in Bad Zwischenahn . She died in Westerstede in 1964 .
Others
In 1909 the sailing training ship Prinzess Eitel Friedrich , today's Dar Pomorza , was named after Sophie Charlotte.
literature
- News for town and country magazine for Oldenburg community and state interests
- NN. (Hampel, Munich, for the auction "Estate of the Princess of Prussia" 1996) The life of Sophie Charlotte Princess Eitel Friedrich von Prussia, b. Duchess of Oldenburg
- Ingeborg Alix Princess Stephan zu Schaumburg Lippe, Duchess of Oldenburg: Colorful pictures from turbulent times. Childhood and youth 1901–1919. Oldenburg undated in it also Altonaer Nachrichten No. 99 of February 28, 1906
- Luther Helmut: Friedrich Karl of Prussia. The life of the "red prince". Berlin 1995.
- Margarete Pauly: Family table of the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg and related royal houses in Europe . Oldenburg 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 441.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Princess Eitel Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | by marrying the Princess of Prussia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg (Oldb) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1964 |
| Place of death | Westerstede |