Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
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Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | |||||
Tenure | 21 April 1860 – 9 March 1913 | ||||
Predecessor | Carl Ludwig II | ||||
Successor | Ernst II | ||||
Born | Langenburg, Kingdom of Württemberg | 31 August 1832||||
Died | 9 March 1913 Langenburg, Kingdom of Württemberg | (aged 80)||||
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House | Hohenlohe-Langenburg | ||||
Father | Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | ||||
Mother | Princess Feodora of Leiningen |
Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Hermann Ernst Franz Bernhard; 31 August 1832 – 9 March 1913) was the 6th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and the second son of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Princess Feodora of Leiningen (half-sister of Queen Victoria).
He succeeded to the title of Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg) on 21 April 1860, when his elder brother signed over his rights to the throne. He died on 9 March 1913 in Langenburg, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire (present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
Life and career
[edit]From 5 November 1894 to 1 October 1907 he served as Imperial Lieutenant of Alsace-Lorraine, succeeding his kinsman Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.
On 19 September 1899, he and his wife were in a saloon railway carriage at Perth Station. Lieutenant Colonel H A Yorke (RE retired), the Inspecting Officer of Railways who reported on the accident, said that they had had a miraculous escape from injury when another train collided with the stationary train in which they were standing.
Marriage and children
[edit]On 24 September 1862 at Karlsruhe, he married Princess Leopoldine of Baden, daughter of Prince William of Baden.
They had three children (one son and two daughters):
- Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (13 September 1863 – 11 December 1950) — He married Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 20 April 1896. They had five children.
- Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (4 September 1864 – 18 March 1929) — She married Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line on 11 November 1884. They had five children.
- Princess Feodora Viktoria Alberta of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (23 July 1866 – 1 November 1932) — She married her second cousin (both being great-grandchildren of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and her first husband Emich Karl, Prince of Leiningen), Emich, 5th Prince of Leiningen, on 12 July 1894. They had five children.
Honours
[edit]He received the following orders and decorations:[1]
Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1858[2]
Baden:[3]
- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1862
- Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion, 1862
- Knight of the Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order, 1871
Württemberg:[4]
- Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1867
- Knight of the Order of Olga, 1889
United Kingdom:
- Honorary Grand Cross of the Bath (civil), 8 May 1867[5]
- Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 14 August 1907[6]
Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1868[7]
Lippe: Cross of Honour of the House Order of Lippe, 1st Class
Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Crown in Ore
Kingdom of Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown
Kingdom of Prussia:
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, 19 February 1876[8]
- Knight of the Black Eagle, with Collar
- Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
- Iron Cross (1870), 1st Class and 2nd Class on White Band with Black Edge
- Red Cross Medal, 1st Class
- Commander of the Johanniter Order
Luxembourg: Knight of the Gold Lion of Nassau, 17 February 1897[9]
Ancestry
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Literature
[edit]- Kurt Eißele: Fürst Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg als Statthalter im Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen 1894–1907. O.O., 1950
- Günter Richter: Hermann Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1972, p. 491 et suiv.
References
[edit]- ^ Handbuch über den Königlich Preußischen Hof und Staat fur das jahr 1908, p. 45
- ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtums Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1865), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 20
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1910), "Großherzogliche Orden", pp. 42, 48, 145
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1896), "Königliche Orden" pp. 29, 138
- ^ Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England, I, London, p. 210
- ^ The London Gazette, issue 28058, p. 6149
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Bayern (1906), "Königliche Orden" p. 8
- ^ "Rother Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1886, p. 24 – via hathitrust.org
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Schoos, Jean (1990). Die Orden und Ehrenzeichen des Großherzogtums Luxemburg und des ehemaligen Herzogtums Nassau in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Luxembourg: Sankt-Paulus Druckerei. p. 342. ISBN 2-87963-048-7.
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- Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg in daten.digitale-sammlungen.de.
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