Hans zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen explained

Prince Hans
Honorific Suffix:6th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen
3rd Duke of Ujest
Office:Prussian Envoy to Saxony
Term Start:1906
Term End:1911
Predecessor:Carl August von Dönhoff
Successor:Vacant
Birth Name:Hans Heinrich Georg Herzog zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen
Birth Date:24 April 1858
Birth Place:Sławięcice Palace, Slawentzitz
Death Place:Oppurg, Thuringia
Parents:Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen
Pauline zu Fürstenberg
Children:4

Hans Heinrich Georg Herzog, Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Duke of Ujest (24 April 1858 – 24 April 1945) was a German nobleman and diplomat.

Early life

A hereditary prince of the House of Hohenlohe, he was born at Sławięcice Palace in Slawentzitz in the Kingdom of Prussia on 24 April 1858.[1] He was a younger son of Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Princess Pauline zu Fürstenberg.[2]

His maternal grandparents were Amalie of Baden (daughter of Charles Frederick, the Margrave, Elector and Grand Duke of Baden) and Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg (the last sovereign prince of Furstenburg). His paternal grandparents were August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen[3] and Louise of Württemberg (a daughter of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern and Duke Eugen of Württemberg).[2]

Career

From 1906 to 1911, he served as the Prussian Envoy to the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden.[1]

Upon their father's death in 1897, his elder brother, Prince Christian, became the 5th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and 2nd Duke of Ujest, and inheriting the family estates. After his brother's death in Somogyszob in 1926 without issue, Prince Hans became the 6th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and 3rd Duke of Ujust and inherited the family estates including Sławięcice Palace (in Upper Silesia), Oppurg Castle (in Thuringia), Neuenstein Castle (in Neuenstein), Öhringen Castle (in Öhringen), and the Hohenlohe Hunting Lodge (in Javorina, Slovakia which was sold to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1935).[4] He was the last Hohenlohe to own Sławięcice Palace before they had to abandon it during World War II for their summer palace in Oppurg and later to Neuenstein in Hohenlohe.[5] The palace were severely damaged by the Red Army in January 1945 and the remaining structure burned down in 1948.[6]

Personal life

On 29 April 1889, Prince Hans was married in Bamberg to his first cousin, Princess Gertrude Auguste Mathilde Olga zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1862–1935), a daughter of his father's younger brother Prince Felix Eugen Wilhelm zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Princess Alexandrine von Hanau-Hořowitz, Countess of Schaumburg (a daughter of Gertrude von Hanau and Frederick William, Elector of Hesse).[7] They were the parents of:[8]

Prince Hans died on 24 April 1945 in Oppurg, Thuringia.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Degener . Hermann August Ludwig . Habel . Walter . Wer ist wer?: Das Deutsche who's who . 1908 . Arani . 592 . 16 January 2024 . de.
  2. Book: Almanach de Gotha: Annual Genealogical Reference . 2004 . . 978-0-9532142-5-9 . 528–530 . 26 January 2022 . en.
  3. Book: Kraus . Gerlinde . Christiane Fürstin von der Osten-Sacken: eine frühkapitalistische Unternehmerin und ihre Erben während der Frühindustrialisierung im 18./19. Jahrhundert . 2001 . Franz Steiner Verlag . 978-3-515-07721-7 . 26 January 2022 . de.
  4. Web site: Tatranská Javorina . www.prezident.sk . . 16 January 2024 . sk.
  5. News: Der reichste Mann nach dem Kaiser (The richest man after the emperor) . Stimme.de . Matthias Stolla . 6 February 2006 . 28 February 2023.
  6. News: Pałac w Sławięcicach. Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How the Sławięcice palace started the Second World War) . www.drogajestcelem.com . 10 July 2022 . 28 February 2023.
  7. Book: Wer ist's? . 1914 . Verlag Herrmann Degener. . 26 January 2022 . de.
  8. Book: The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe . 1914 . Harrison & Sons . 789 . 16 January 2024 . en.
  9. Book: McNaughton . Arnold . The Book of Kings: The Royal Houses, volume 1 . 1973 . Garnstone Press . London . 978-0-900391-19-4 . 485–487 . 16 January 2024 . en.