| Moritz | |
| Landgrave of Hesse | |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Castle of Racconigi, Cuneo, Italy |
| Death Place: | Frankfurt-am-Main, Hesse, Germany |
| House: | Hesse |
| Succession: | Head of the House of Hesse |
| Reign: | 25 October 1980 – 23 May 2013 |
| Reign-Type: | Tenure |
| Predecessor: | Philipp |
| Successor: | Donatus |
| Father: | Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse |
| Mother: | Princess Mafalda of Savoy |
| Issue: | Princess Mafalda Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse Princess Elena Prince Philipp |
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (legally Moritz Friedrich Karl Emanuel Humbert[1] Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen; 6 August 1926 - 23 May 2013)[2] was the son of Prince Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, and the head of the House of Brabant[3] and the German House of Hesse.
Landgrave Moritz was born at Racconigi Castle, in Italy. During the Second World War, Moritz's mother, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, was arrested by the Nazis for alleged subversive activities and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 as a result of a U.S. bombing raid on the camp. Moritz and his siblings (Moritz, Otto and Elisabeth) were given sanctuary in the Vatican under the care of their Aunt and Uncle Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine and Margaret Campbell Geddes who adopted them.[4] After the War they were reunited with their father in Germany.
Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, the last head of the Hesse-Darmstadt line, died in 1968, at which time Moritz's father succeeded him as head of the entire house. Moritz had been the head of the House of Hesse since the death of his father Philip on 25 October 1980.
Moritz was a world-famous art collector.[5] [6] He was also the proprietor of the Kronberg Palace Hotel up until his death.
He died of lung illness in a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany at age 86.
Moritz married Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, daughter of Prince Gustav Albrecht. Their marriage took place in the summer of 1964 in Giessen and ended in divorce in 1974. They had four children.
|-