| Princess Hilda | |
| Birth Date: | 1839 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, German Confederation |
| Death Place: | Dessau, Germany |
| Father: | Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau |
| Mother: | Princess Marie Luise of Hesse-Kassel |
| House: | Ascania |
Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau (13 December 1839[1] – 22 December 1926) was a member of the House of Ascania by birth. She was a leader in the Dessau of the Deutscher Krieger-Hilfsbund (German War Auxiliary Corps).
She was the third child of the marriage of Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. Her father was the son of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, and her mother was the daughter of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Denmark.[2]
She is one of the sisters who contracted marriages with German princes:
Along with her mother and some of her sisters, she went on several trips around Europe. For example, in 1884, Hilda, her mother and Bathildis, went to Florence where they met with the family of her cousin the Duchess of Teck, including her daughter Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, who would be later be queen consort of the United Kingdom.[3] In 1890, together with her sister Bathildis, they visited the bathing station in Bad Kissingen.[4]
In 1905 her lady-in-waiting (hofdame) was the baroness von Heynitz.[5]
During the First World War she participated as leader in Dessau of the Deutscher Krieger-Hilfsbund (German War Auxiliary Corps). This organization was dedicated to providing aid to German soldiers returning from the front in a precarious situation.[6]
Hilda never married and died in Dessau in 1926 aged 87.
. James Pope-Hennessy. Queen Mary, 1867-1953 . registration . 1959. 121 . en. Book I. Princess May. Chapter five. Exile to Florence..