Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1825–1901)

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Prince Hermann
Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Born(1825-08-04)4 August 1825
Altenstein Castle
Died31 August 1901(1901-08-31) (aged 76)
Berchtesgaden
Burial
Prague Cemetery, Stuttgart
Spouse
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(m. 1851; died 1898)​
IssuePrincess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
HouseWettin
FatherPrince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
MotherPrincess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen

Hermann George Bernard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (4 August 1825 at

general in the Württemberger
army.

Life

Hermann was the third son of

Ida of Saxe-Meiningen (1794–1852), the daughter of George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. He was a nephew of Queen Adelaide
of Great Britain.

In 1840, Hermann enrolled at the military academy of Württemberg.

Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Falcon, the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary and the Order of the Crown
.

He died on 31 August 1901 and was buried at the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

The Weimarstraße in Stuttgart is named after him.[2]

Marriage and issue

Hermann married on 17 June 1851 in Friedrichshafen to Princess Augusta of Württemberg (1826-1898), the youngest daughter of King William I of Württemberg. They had the following children:

married 1873 to Hereditary Grand Duke Charles Augustus of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844-1894)
married in 1885 to Princess Gerta of Isenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach (1863-1945)
  • Bernhard (1855-1907), from 1901 "Count of Crayenburg", married
  1. in 1900 Marie Louise Brockmüller (1866-1903)
  2. in 1905 Countess Elisabeth von der Schulenburg (1869-1940)
  • Alexander (1857-1891)
  • Ernest (1859-1909)
  • Olga (1869-1924)
married in 1902 Prince Leopold of Isenburg-Büdingen (1866-1933), eldest son of
Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen
.

Honours

He received the following orders and decorations:[3]

Ancestry

References

  • Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Weimar, 1864, p. 6 (Online)

Footnotes

  1. ^ R. Starklof: Das Leben des Herzogs Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, vol. 2, Gotha, 1866, p. 74
  2. ^ Titus Häussermann: Die Stuttgarter Straßennamen, Silberburg-Verlag, 2003, p. 610
  3. ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1900), "Genealogie" pp. 9-10
  4. ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1869), "Großherzoglicher Hausorden" p. 10
  5. ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1847), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 27
  6. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1896), "Königliche Orden" pp. 27, 67, 136
  7. ^ Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen: 1865/66. Heinrich. 1866. p. 4.
  8. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen" pp. 10, 146
  9. ^ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch des Herzogthums Nassau (1866), "Herzogliche Orden" p. 9
  11. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1865), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 55, 66
  12. ^ "Rother Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1886, p. 23{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ "Rote Kreuz-Medaille", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), Berlin, 1895, p. 268 – via hathitrust.org{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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