Sophie von Schönburg-Waldenburg

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Princess Sophie of Albania

Sophie Helene Cecilie Princess von Schönburg-Waldenburg (born May 21, 1885 in Potsdam , † February 3, 1936 in Fântânele , Romania ) became Princess of Albania in 1914 .

Life

With her husband Wilhelm zu Wied (around 1913)

Sophie was a daughter of the Hereditary Prince Victor von Schönburg-Waldenburg and his wife Lucia von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (a daughter of the Romanian princess Pulcheria Cantacuzene). She married Prince Wilhelm zu Wied , later Prince Wilhelm I of Albania, in Waldenburg on November 30, 1906 . At the time of her daughter's birth, her husband was an officer in a Prussian regiment. She ran a salon in Potsdam , which was a focus of social and cultural life there. In the years from 1924 onwards she stayed in Weimar during the summer months and founded the Franz Liszt Bund there in 1927, which existed with around 100 members until 1937 and organized a number of Liszt festivals under Peter Raabe, but ultimately followed up with 1905 The Franz Liszt Society founded by the Liszt student Martha Remmert (1853–1941) was looking for.

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Princess Sophie was a trained singer and mastered five instruments. She wrote a few minor opera compositions and occasionally appeared in public. Her work "The Golden Key" was premiered at the beginning of September 1926 in the Princely Park Grünfeld in Waldenburg (Saxony) . The princess spent the last years of her life in Romania .

progeny

The children from her marriage to Prince Wilhelm zu Wied (1876–1945) in Waldenburg (Saxony) on November 30, 1906 are:

  • Marie Eleonore (* 1909; † 1956 in a Romanian internment camp in Miercurea Ciuc ), first married in 1937 to Lieutenant Prince Alfred von Schönburg-Waldenburg (1905–1941), from 1949 to Ion Octavian Bunea (1899–1977 or later)
  • Hereditary Prince Karl Viktor of Albania, Prince of Wied (1913–1973), lawyer, married in 1966 to Eileen Johnston (1922–1985)

literature

  • Sophie Princess of Albania Princess zu Wied Princess von Schönburg-Waldenburg: "... what survives me ...". With an introduction by Robby Joachim Götze. Artis Causa eV, Waldenburg 2007.
  • Robby Joachim Götze : Sophie Princess of Albania Princess zu Wied Princess of Schönburg-Waldenburg. A picture biography. Artis Causa e. V., Waldenburg 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Willscheid: Manina zu Wied (1909–1956) in: Frauenbüro Neuwied (Hrsg.): From Frau zu Frau, Part II , Verlag Peter Kehrein, 1995, ISBN 9783980326650 , p. 82
  2. ↑ Dieter Nolden, The Liszt Student Martha Remmert, published in preparation 2018/19.
personal data
SURNAME Schönburg-Waldenburg, Sophie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German noblewoman, Princess of Albania, singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1936
Place of death Fântânele , Romania