Victor II. Amadeus of Ratibor

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Viktor II Amadeus Duke of Ratibor and Corvey (painting by Philip Alexius de László )

Victor II. Amadeus Duke of Ratibor, Prince Corvey, Prince of Hohenlohe (born September 6, 1847 in Rauden , † August 9, 1923 in Corvey ) was a German nobleman and Prussian politician.

Life

Victor Amadeus came from the Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst family. His father was Victor I, Duke of Ratibor (1818-1893), Prince of Corvey. His mother was Princess Amelie zu Fürstenberg (1821–1899), a daughter of Prince Karl Egon II von Fürstenberg (1796–1854).

Ratibor attended high school in Neisse and studied law in Berlin , Bonn and Göttingen . He was a corps bow bearer of Borussia Bonn (1867) and Saxonia Göttingen (1890). Viktor was accepted into Saxonia at the same time as his four brothers Max , Karl Egon , Franz ( Colonel à la suite ) and Egon ( Court Marshal ).

After graduating as Dr. iur. he joined the Potsdam Leib-Garde-Hussar Regiment , with which he fought in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 . Between 1873 and 1876 he worked at the German embassy in Vienna .

In 1893 he took over the dominions of Kieferstädtel and Zembowitz in Upper Silesia .

From 1897 to 1921 he was chairman of the Silesian and Upper Silesian Provincial Parliament . As a member of the Free Conservative Party , he ran for the Prussian House of Representatives in 1885 and 1888 . Since 1893 he was a member of the Prussian manor house . From 1896 to 1904 he was chairman of the New Group.

Frau Herzog Viktor - Duchess Marie von Ratibor, b. Countess Breunner-Enkevoirth, 1899

family

From 1877 he was married to Marie, née Countess von Breunner-Enckevoirth . He had three children with her:

⚭ 1910 Elisabeth Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (1886–1976)
  • Princess Agathe von Ratibor and Corvey, Princess of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (* July 24, 1888 - December 12, 1960)
⚭ 1910 Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia (1880–1925)
  • Johann Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (* March 8, 1882 - † January 5, 1948)
⚭ 1918 Marie Gabriele Princess von Windisch-Graetz (1898–1992).

Honorary positions

Awards

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902 [1] .
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928 [2] .
  • Günter Tiggesbäumker: The ducal house Ratibor and Corvey. German Princely Houses, Issue 5. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2008.
  • Günter Tiggesbäumker: The Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst family in Höxter and Corvey. On the history of the ducal house Ratibor and Corvey . In: Frankenland 60 (1) 2008, pp. 26–34.
  • Günter Tiggesbäumker: The ducal house Ratibor and Corvey . 7th expanded edition. Werl: Börde-Verlag, 2012.
  • Christoph Maria Merki: The bumpy triumph of the automobile 1895–1930. On the motorization of road traffic in France, Germany and Switzerland , Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2002, pp. 217–218.
  • Gustav Braunbeck [ed.]: Braunbeck's Sport-Lexikon , edition 1912/13. Berlin 1913, p. 334.
  • Hans-Peter Schmidt: Silesia and Prussia. Schweitzerhaus Verlag 2010, p. 117.
  • Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry, Vol. 8 / II, p. 616. (PDF; 2.19 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographisches Corpsalbum der Borussia zu Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 171.
  2. ↑ GG angle : Biographical Corp album of Borussia Bonn from 1821 to 1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 244.
  3. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 19 , 442; 85 , 433
  4. ↑ Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 and of the Landsmannschaft Saxonia zu Göttingen 1840 to 1844. As of May 31, 2006. Self-published, Düsseldorf 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Ratibor, Victor II. Amadeus of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corvey, Victor Amadeus Prince; Hohenlohe, Prince Victor Amadeus of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian politician and gentleman
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Rauden
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1923
Place of death Corvey