Sophie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

Grand Duchess Sophie von Baden , 1830 (painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter )

Sophie Wilhelmine von Holstein-Gottorf (full name Sophie Wilhelmine Katharina Marie Luise Charlotte Anne; *  May 21, 1801 in Stockholm , † July 6, 1865 in Karlsruhe ) was Grand Duchess of Baden.

Life

Sophie was the daughter of Frederike Dorothea von Baden and King Gustav IV of Sweden , Duke of Holstein-Gottorf . Her great-grandfather was the then reigning Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden . She grew up in Stockholm. Her father, who opposed Napoleon I for religious reasons , was deposed as King of Sweden in 1809. The couple had four other children and were divorced on February 17, 1812.

On July 25, 1819, she married Count Leopold von Hochberg , the eldest son of Karl Friedrich von Baden from his morganatic marriage to Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg . This connection was therefore created in order to put a "befitting" woman at the side of Leopold, who had not been considered equal up to then, since he was considered to be the heir to the throne of the Grand Duke from 1818.

During the Baden Revolution of 1848/1849, the ruling family was driven out of Karlsruhe. After Leopold's death in 1852, Sophie lived in her widow's residence, a Karlsruhe palace.

Sophie is buried in the Protestant city church in Karlsruhe. After a grave desecration during the Second World War , her coffin was transferred to the grand ducal mausoleum in Karlsruhe .

Marriage and offspring

Sophie Wilhelmine von Holstein-Gottorf, 1834 (by Marie Ellenrieder )

Despite this political background, the Prince and Hereditary Princes of Baden had a harmonious marriage in the first few years and the connection resulted in a daughter and four sons, then three further children, until Grand Duke Leopold took office in 1830:

• Alexandrine (December 6, 1820 - December 20, 1904), married Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on May 3, 1842 (June 21, 1818 - August 22, 1893)
• Ludwig (born October 26, 1822 - † November 16, 1822)
• Ludwig II (born August 15, 1824 - † January 22, 1858)
• Friedrich I (September 9, 1826 - September 28, 1907)
• Wilhelm (December 18, 1829 - April 27, 1897), Prussian general, married Maria Maximilianowna von Leuchtenberg on February 11, 1863
• Karl (March 9, 1832 - December 3, 1906), married Rosalie von Beust, Countess von Rhena (June 10, 1845 - October 15, 1908), daughter of Baron Wilhelm von Beust, on May 17, 1871
• Marie (November 20, 1834; † November 21, 1899), married Prince Ernst zu Leiningen on September 11, 1858 (November 9, 1830; † April 5, 1904)
• Cäcilie (September 20, 1839 - April 12, 1891), married the Grand Duke Michael of Russia on August 28, 1857 (October 25, 1832 - December 18, 1909)

ancestors

Adolf Friedrich King of Sweden (1710–1771)

Gustav III King of Sweden (1746–1792)

Luise Ulrike of Prussia (1720–1782)

Gustav IV Adolf King of Sweden (1778–1837)

Frederick V King of Denmark (1723–1766)

Sophie Magdalene of Denmark (1746–1813)

Louise of Great Britain (1724–1751)

Sophie of Sweden

Karl Friedrich Grand Duke of Baden (1728–1811)

Karl Ludwig von Baden (1755–1801)

Karoline Luise of Hessen-Darmstadt (1723–1783)

Friederike von Baden (1781–1826)

Louis IX of Hessen-Darmstadt (1719–1790)

Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt (1754–1832)

Caroline of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1721–1774)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sophie in the German biography , accessed on February 26, 2016.
2. ^ Royal British Hanover State Calendar (State Calendar) to the year 1821. Berenberg, 1821, p. 471 ( books.google.com ).
3. ^ Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine in the German Biography , accessed on February 26, 2016.
4. ^ State and learned newspaper of the Hamburg impartial correspondent. 1830, ( books.google.com ).
5. ↑ General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. Conversations Lexicon. FA Brockhaus, 1845, p. 696, ( books.google.com ).
6. ^ Sophie of Baden. stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de, accessed on February 26, 2016 .