Wilhelm of Anhalt-Dessau

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Wilhelm Waldemar von Anhalt-Dessau (born May 29, 1807 in Dessau , † October 8, 1864 in Vienna ) from the house of the Ascanians was a prince of Anhalt-Dessau .

Life

Wilhelm was a son of the Hereditary Prince Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau (1769–1814) from his marriage to Christiana Amalie (1774–1846), daughter of Landgrave Friedrich V of Hesse-Homburg . In 1832 Wilhelm acquired the Bose Palace in Dessau's Johannisstrasse for 13,500 thalers, which is why it was renamed the Prinz-Wilhelm-Palais. The ducal library was later located in the building.

Prince Wilhelm morganatically married Caroline Emilie (1812–1888), daughter of the Dessau court musician Karl Friedrich Klausnitzer, who was raised in 1842 to “Baroness of Stolzenberg” on July 9, 1840. Wilhelm later lived under the incognito of a Baron Stolzenberg in Vienna, where he and his wife belonged to Johann Strauss's circle of friends .

Wilhelm adopted the daughter of his brother Georg Countess Helene von Reina (1835–1860) in 1855, who thus became the “Princess of Anhalt” and in the same year she married the ruling Prince Friedrich Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1793–1867).

literature

  • Franz Brückner: House Book of the City of Dessau , Volume 15, Council of the City of Dessau, City Archives, 197?

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Historical Commission: Yearbook for Regional History and Regional Studies , Volume 17, Part 2, p. 187, Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, 1990
  2. ^ Austrian Society for Research in the Eighteenth Century: The Eighteenth Century and Austria , Volume 12, p. 30, H. Böhlaus, 1989
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm of Anhalt-Dessau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm Waldemar von Anhalt-Dessau (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1864
Place of death Vienna