Hermine Reuss of Greiz
| Hermine Reuss of Greiz | |
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| Рожденный | 17 декабря 1887 г. Greiz , Княжество Рейсс-Грейз , Германская империя |
| Умер | 7 August 1947 (aged 59) Франкфурт и Дер Одер, Германия |
| Burial | 15 August 1947 |
| Spouse | Prince Johann of Schönaich-Carolath
(m. 1907; died 1920) |
| Issue |
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| House | Reuss Elder Line |
| Father | Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz |
| Mother | Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe |
Принцесса Хермин Рейс из Грейза (немецкая: Hermine, принцесса Рейсс Зу Грейз ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 17 декабря 1887 г. - 7 августа 1947 г.) была второй женой Вильгельма II, немецкого императора . Они поженились в 1922 году, через четыре года после того, как он отрекся. Вильгельм был ее вторым мужем; Ее первый муж, принц Йоханн из Шнайча-Каролата, умер в 1920 году. назвали ее императрицей Некоторые сторонники династии Хохензоллерна Хермин .
Ранний период жизни
[ редактировать ]Принцесса Хермин родилась в Грейсе в качестве пятого ребенка и четвертой дочери Генриха XXII, принца Рейс-Грейза (28 марта 1846 г.-19 апреля 1902 года), и его жена, принцесса Ида Матильда Адельхейд из Шаумбурга-Липпа (28 июля 1852 г.-28 сентября 1891), дочь Адольфа I, принца Шаумбурга-Липпа . Ее отец был правителем княжества Рейсс-Грейз , состояния немецкой империи , в том, что является современной Тюрингией . Старший брат принцессы Хермине стал Генрич XXIV, принц Рейс из Грейза в 1902 году.
First marriage
[edit]Princess Hermine was married on 7 January 1907 in Greiz to Prince Johann George Ludwig Ferdinand August of Schönaich-Carolath (11 September 1873 – 7 April 1920).
They were the parents of five children:
- Prince Hans Georg Heinrich Ludwig Friedrich Hermann Ferdinand of Schönaich-Carolath (3 November 1907 – 9 August 1943), married Baroness Sibylle von Zedlitz und Leipe, killed in action at the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
- Prince Georg Wilhelm of Schönaich-Carolath (16 March 1909 – 1 November 1927), died unmarried.
- Princess Hermine Caroline Wanda Ida Luise Feodora Viktoria Auguste of Schönaich-Carolath (9 May 1910 – 30 May 1959), married Hugo Herbert Hartung.
- Prince Ferdinand Johann Georg Hermann Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich August of Schönaich-Carolath (5 April 1913 – 17 October 1973), married Rose Rauch (1912-1987), then Baroness Margarethe von Seckendorff (1908-1991).
- Princess Henriette Hermine Wanda Ida Luise of Schönaich-Carolath (25 November 1918 – 16 March 1972), married Wilhelm II's grandson Prince Karl Franz of Prussia (son of Prince Joachim of Prussia) in 1940 and had issue.
Marriage to ex-Emperor Wilhelm II
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In January 1922, a son of Princess Hermine sent birthday wishes to the exiled German Emperor Wilhelm II, who then invited the boy and his mother to Huis Doorn. Wilhelm found Hermine very attractive, and greatly enjoyed her company. The two had much in common, both being recently widowed: Hermine just over a year and a half before and Wilhelm only nine months prior.
By early 1922, Wilhelm was determined to marry Hermine. Despite grumblings from Wilhelm's monarchist supporters and the objections of his children, 63-year-old Wilhelm and 34-year-old Hermine married on 5 November 1922 in Doorn. Wilhelm's physician, Alfred Haehner, suspected that Hermine had married the former kaiser only in the belief that she would become an empress and that she had become increasingly bitter as it became apparent that would not be the case.[3] Shortly before the couple's first wedding anniversary, Haehner recorded how Hermine had told him how "inconsiderately [Wilhelm] behaved towards her" and how Wilhelm's face showed "a strong dislike" for his wife.[4] Hermine's first husband had also been older than she was, by fourteen years. Wilhelm and Hermine were fourth cousins once removed through mutual descent from Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and fifth cousins through common descent from King George II of Great Britain.
In 1927, Hermine wrote An Empress in Exile: My Days in Doorn, an account of her life until then. She cared for the property management of Huis Doorn and by establishing her own relief organization, she stayed in contact with monarchist and nationalist circles in the Weimar Republic. Hermine also shared her husband's anti-Semitism.[5] She remained a constant companion to the aging emperor until his death in 1941. They had no children.
Later life
[edit]Following the death of Wilhelm, Hermine returned to Germany to live on her first husband's estate in Saabor, Lower Silesia. During the Vistula–Oder Offensive of early 1945, she fled from the advancing Red Army to her sister's estate in Rossla, Thuringia. After the end of the Second World War, she was held under house arrest at Frankfurt an der Oder in the Soviet occupation zone, and later imprisoned in the Paulinenhof Internment Camp.[citation needed] On 7 August 1947, aged 59, she died of a heart attack in a small flat in Frankfurt an der Oder[citation needed] while under guard by the Red Army occupation forces. She was buried in the Antique Temple of Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, in what would become East Germany. Some years earlier, it was the resting place of several other members of the Imperial family, including Wilhelm's first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
Dramatic representation
[edit]В 2017 году Джанет Мактир сыграла вымышленную императрицу Хермин в исключении вместе с Кристофером Пламмером в роли Кайзера Вильгельма II .
Происхождение
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[ редактировать ]- ^ Jump up to: а беременный Монтгомери-Массингберд, Хью (редактор). Гид Берк по королевской семье , Пираг Берк, Лондон, 1973, с. 248-249 302. ISBN 0-220-66222-3
- ^ Jump up to: а беременный «Альманах де Гота», Русси , (Гота: Юстус Перт, 1944), с. 90, 97, (французский).
- ^ Röhl, John CG (2014). Вильгельм II в пропасть войны и изгнания, 1900-1941 (в мягкой обложке изд.). Кембридж, Великобритания: издательство Кембриджского университета. п. 1211-3. ISBN 9781107544192 .
- ^ Röhl pp1211-3
- ^ Урбах, Карина (2015). Go-Betweens для Гитлера . Оксфорд: издательство Оксфордского университета . С. 232–233. ISBN 978-0191008672 .
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