Wilhelm von Hanau-Hořovice
Wilhelm von Hanau (born February 19, 1836 in Kassel , † June 3, 1902 in Hořovice Castle ). Wilhelm was the third son of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel (1802-1875) and his morganatic wife Gertrude Falkenstein (1803-1882), divorced Lehmann and later Countess of Schaumburg and Princess of Hanau and Hořowitz. After the death of his older brother Moritz, he was Prince of Hanau from 1889 to 1902.
Life
Wilhelm initially pursued a military career in the Electoral Hessian Army and had the rank of major when the electoral state collapsed in 1866 . He went to the Prussian annexation Electoral Hesse in 1866 as his father into exile in Austria, where he joined the kuk Landwehr belonged. Wilhelm was very interested in music. After taking over the family entrepre- neurship, he designed the Hořovice chateau park. Among other things, he had sculptures by the sculptor Heinrich Natter erected there, who also created a memorial for Friedrich Wilhelm I. Wilhelm had statues of figures from the works of Richard Wagner, whom he admired, set up in the palace gardens .
On January 29, 1866, he married Princess Elisabeth zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1841–1926) in Frankfurt am Main . The marriage was a dynastic project of his parents, who succeeded for the first time in marrying off one of their unsuitable born sons to a daughter from the high nobility. Elisabeth's brother, Adolf I. Georg , Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, viewed this game as a miscarriage and resisted - albeit in vain. After the end of the electoral state in the summer of 1866, the political purpose of the marriage ceased to a large extent, and they divorced on April 22, 1868.
In his second marriage, Wilhelm married Countess Elisabeth zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (1868–1952) in Döberkitz near Bautzen on May 12, 1890 . Both marriages remained childless.
After the death of his older brother Moritz, who died childless, Wilhelm succeeded him in 1889 as Prince of Hanau. He was succeeded in this dignity by his younger brother Karl .
His grave is in the Drehsa manor park near Weißenberg in Upper Lusatia.
literature
- Michel Huberty: L'Allemagne dynastique: Les 15 familles qui ont fait l'empire . Vol. 1: Hesse - Reuss - Saxe. Le Perreux-sur-Marne, 1976, ISBN 2-901138-01-2
- Philipp Losch: The Princess of Hanau and her children . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 13 (1939), p. 34.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelm von Hanau-Hořovice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilhelm von Hanau |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Son of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel, Prince of Hanau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1902 |
| Place of death | Hořovice Castle |