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Albrecht of Anhalt-Dessau |
Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Son of: Leopold II by Anhalt-Dessau & Gisela by Anhalt-Kothen
Husband of: Henriette zur Lippe-Weissenfeld, mar 1774, sep 1778
His lover was:
Natural offspring:
1. Friederike von Heydeck (1785-1829)
2. Gustav Adolf von Heideck (1787-1856).
References for Albrecht von Anhalt-Dessau.
Das Gartenreich Dessau-Worlitz.
Digital Museum of Sachsen-Anhalt.
References for Albrecht von Anhalt-Dessau.
Das Gartenreich Dessau-Worlitz.
Digital Museum of Sachsen-Anhalt.
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| Friedrich Albrecht of Anhalt-Bernburg |
Friedrich Albrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg (1735-1796)
Furst von Anhalt-Bernburg 1765
Husband of: Luise Albertine von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
Natural offspring: 1) Auguste von Gröna (d.1841), mar Hans August von Bissing (d.1841)
Natural offspring: 1) Auguste von Gröna (d.1841), mar Hans August von Bissing (d.1841)
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| Karl Friedrich of Anhalt-Bernburg @Wikipedia |
Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg 1718
Lover in 1711.
Son of Viktor Amadeus von Anjalt-Bernburg & Elisabeth von Pfalz-Zweibrucken
Husband of: 1. Sophie Albertine von Solms-Sonnenwalde (1672-1708), daughter of George Frederick, Count of Solms-Sonnenwalde & Anna Sophia of Anhalt-Bernburg.
Natural offspring:
1. Frederick, Count of Bährnfeld, 1723 (1712-1758)
Born illegitimate, he was legitimized after the wedding of their parents.
2. Karl Leopold, Count of Bährnfeld 1723] (1717-1769)
His lover was:
Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüssler (1683-1740)
Chambermaid
Imperial Countess of Ballenstadt 1719
Daughter of a non-noble chancery counselor.
"Karl Frederick and Wilhelmine Charlotte married secretly in Bernburg on 1 May 1715 and Karl Frederick immediately tried to have his wife raised to the rank of countess by the Emperor. When Prince Victor Amadeus learned of his son's actions, he wrote to the Emperor on 15 November 1715 to prevent the elevation, and added a codicil to his testament dated 13 July 1716 denying the children of the union any succession rights. The Emperor approved this codicil one year later, on 15 July 1717. The Emperor also sent a rescript to Karl Frederick dated 20 August 1717 instructing him not to call his wife princess or their sons princes. Nevertheless, after his father died in 1718, Karl Frederick obtained from the Emperor a patent to elevate his wife to the title Countess of Ballenstedt (German: Gräfin von Ballenstedt) on 19 December 1719, and their two sons to the rank of Imperial Counts of Bährnfeld (German: Reichsgrafen von Bährnfeld) on 12 June 1723; this, however, without prejudice of the rights of the agnates. In 1722, the Reichshofrat forbade Karl Frederick's widow to use the princely title for herself or her sons. However, on 16 November 1742, the Emperor Charles VII raised the Counts of Bährenfeld to the rank of Princes of Anhalt-Bernburg with all rights of succession. Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, protested, but the Emperor died in 1745. The Prince brought up the matter to the College of Electors gathered in 1745, but they declined to take up the matter in the electoral capitulation. He then brought the matter to the Reichshofrat, which ruled on 6 May 1748 by repealing the diploma of 1742 and forbidding the Counts of Bährenfeld from calling themselves Princes of Bernburg or Princes of Anhalt-Bernburg, and allowing them only to call themselves Princes of Bährenfeld. They died unmarried." Wikipedia)
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| Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau 18th c. |
(1676-1747)
Furst von Anhalt-Dessau
1693-1747
Also known as:
the Old Dessauer (Ger. der Alte Dessauer): "A key figure among Frederick's generals was Leopold von Dessau, an aged combatant known as the “Old Dessauer” whom Frederick found somewhat difficult to manage, posting him for most of the campaigning years up to 1745 in command of an army of observation on the Saxon frontier. The Old Dessauer was now over seventy, but his last campaign was destined to be the most illustrious of his long career. A combined effort of the Austrians and Saxons to mount a winter campaign and move towards Berlin led to a hurried concentration of the Prussian forces. Frederick managed to check the main Austrian army in Silesia, then hastened towards Dresden to take on the Saxons. But before he had arrived, Leopold, no longer in observation, had decided the war by his overwhelming victory over the Saxons at Kesselsdorf (December 14, 1745). It was his habit to pray before battle, for he was a devout Lutheran. On this last battlefield his words were, "O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days. Or if Thou wilt not help me, do not help these scoundrels, but leave us to try it ourselves." (The Siege of Leipzig, 1745)
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| Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau & Anna Luise Fohse @Wikimedia |
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| Anna Luise Fohse by Antoine Pesne, 1725 in Schloss Mosigkau @Wikimedia |
A German apothecary's daughter
Imperial Princess 1701.
Daughter of: Rudolf Fohse, Court pharmacist of Dessau & Agnes Ohme.
"Prince Eugene was wont to call him the 'Bulldog,' and he was proud of the designation. He served in the Prussian army under Frederick I, Frederick William I and Frederick the Great, and it was he who gave the Prussian infantry its organisation. He was in twenty=two battles and twenty-seven sieges, and inly once was grazed by a ball, consequently the soldiers regarding him as invulnerable. Pollnitzin's 'Memoirs' thus describe him: 'The Prince of Anhalt-Dessau was well built. His whole bearing, face, dress, everything about him bespoke the soldier, but also the oddity. He was active, and unwearied in work. Heat an dcold, want and superfluity, seemed not to affect him. He was brave to temerity, in discipline most harsh, but he loved the soldiers, rewarded them, and associated familiarly with them. He was a warm and true friend, but an implacable enemy; easily won, he was obstinate to pig-headedness in his fancies. Little accustomed in his youth to moderation, for a long time he was dissolute and savage. He cared nothing for the pomp of a court, and in his manners he little regarded proprieties, and his mode of life was in little accord with his position. A lover of supreme power, he would like to have enslaved the whole world under himself. Strangely enough he disliked learning so much that he would not allow his princes to have a tutor, as he said he wanted them to make themselves and not be manufactured by others. . . " (Germany, Present and Past: 462)
"Anna Louise Föhse was the childhood sweetheart and later morganatic wife of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau. Despite great resistance on the part of her own father and of her mother-in-law Henriette Catherine, the daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, she married him in 1698 at age 22. After paying 92000 Taler to the imperial treasury, she was raised to Imperial Princess by Emperor Leopold I three years later, giving her a higher rank than him. In the same year 1698, he took up government. Anna Louise and Leopold had ten children together; Leopold also fathered two illegitimate children in 1733 and 1735. Relations between Anna Louise and her mother-in-law later improved. She also had a good relationship with the Prussian royal family. Her career was the subject of the tabloid press of the day, and of several plays." (Wikipedia)
"Leopold, 'the old Dessauer' of Frederick the Great, was prince of Anhalt-Dessau. . . Leopold was attached from boyhood to Anna Lise, daughter of an apothecary named Fohse, at Dessau. One day, as he passed down the street, he saw her at her window with a man speaking to her in a familiar manner. Prince Leopold rushed upstairs in ungovernable fury, and ran him through the body. Then, when too late, he learned that the person he had transfixed was a doctor, and cousin of the damsel. He married her, and the emperor created her a princess in her own right, so as to legitimise her offspring. The marraige was a happy one; she bore him ten children, and died two years before the prince. When the news of her decease reached him he was in the field at Neisse, in Silesia. He was inconsolable, and communicated their loss to his sons, who were with him in camp, in the following laconic speech" 'Curse it boys, the Devil has carried off your mother.'" (Germany, Present and Past: 461)
His lover was:
Daughter of: Rudolf Fohse, Court pharmacist of Dessau & Agnes Ohme.
"Prince Eugene was wont to call him the 'Bulldog,' and he was proud of the designation. He served in the Prussian army under Frederick I, Frederick William I and Frederick the Great, and it was he who gave the Prussian infantry its organisation. He was in twenty=two battles and twenty-seven sieges, and inly once was grazed by a ball, consequently the soldiers regarding him as invulnerable. Pollnitzin's 'Memoirs' thus describe him: 'The Prince of Anhalt-Dessau was well built. His whole bearing, face, dress, everything about him bespoke the soldier, but also the oddity. He was active, and unwearied in work. Heat an dcold, want and superfluity, seemed not to affect him. He was brave to temerity, in discipline most harsh, but he loved the soldiers, rewarded them, and associated familiarly with them. He was a warm and true friend, but an implacable enemy; easily won, he was obstinate to pig-headedness in his fancies. Little accustomed in his youth to moderation, for a long time he was dissolute and savage. He cared nothing for the pomp of a court, and in his manners he little regarded proprieties, and his mode of life was in little accord with his position. A lover of supreme power, he would like to have enslaved the whole world under himself. Strangely enough he disliked learning so much that he would not allow his princes to have a tutor, as he said he wanted them to make themselves and not be manufactured by others. . . " (Germany, Present and Past: 462)
"Anna Louise Föhse was the childhood sweetheart and later morganatic wife of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau. Despite great resistance on the part of her own father and of her mother-in-law Henriette Catherine, the daughter of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, she married him in 1698 at age 22. After paying 92000 Taler to the imperial treasury, she was raised to Imperial Princess by Emperor Leopold I three years later, giving her a higher rank than him. In the same year 1698, he took up government. Anna Louise and Leopold had ten children together; Leopold also fathered two illegitimate children in 1733 and 1735. Relations between Anna Louise and her mother-in-law later improved. She also had a good relationship with the Prussian royal family. Her career was the subject of the tabloid press of the day, and of several plays." (Wikipedia)
"Leopold, 'the old Dessauer' of Frederick the Great, was prince of Anhalt-Dessau. . . Leopold was attached from boyhood to Anna Lise, daughter of an apothecary named Fohse, at Dessau. One day, as he passed down the street, he saw her at her window with a man speaking to her in a familiar manner. Prince Leopold rushed upstairs in ungovernable fury, and ran him through the body. Then, when too late, he learned that the person he had transfixed was a doctor, and cousin of the damsel. He married her, and the emperor created her a princess in her own right, so as to legitimise her offspring. The marraige was a happy one; she bore him ten children, and died two years before the prince. When the news of her decease reached him he was in the field at Neisse, in Silesia. He was inconsolable, and communicated their loss to his sons, who were with him in camp, in the following laconic speech" 'Curse it boys, the Devil has carried off your mother.'" (Germany, Present and Past: 461)
His lover was:
Sophie Eleonore Soldner (1710-1779)
Lover in 1732-1736.
Daughter of Ernst Soldner & Anna Ursula Schink
Wife of Johann August Rode (1695-1773)
Lover in 1732-1736.
Daughter of Ernst Soldner & Anna Ursula Schink
Wife of Johann August Rode (1695-1773)
Natural offspring:
1. Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst (1733-1814)
2. Karl Franz von Berenhorst (1735-1804)
"She lost both her parents when she was ten, and at that point came to Dessau. Who arranged for this and who took care of her, is not known – possibly her older siblings; possibly her godmother, Dame Obermeisterin von Moltke. (It can't be determined with certainty whether the Obermeister von Moltke later lived in Dessau.) Sophie was allowed to live at the royal court in Dessau, and in 1732 (until 1736) became the mistress of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, "the Old Dessauer". Out of this relationship came two children, later [named] von Berenhorst, who show up as ancestors in numerous family trees, such as the von Richthofens." (Wikitree)
"She lost both her parents when she was ten, and at that point came to Dessau. Who arranged for this and who took care of her, is not known – possibly her older siblings; possibly her godmother, Dame Obermeisterin von Moltke. (It can't be determined with certainty whether the Obermeister von Moltke later lived in Dessau.) Sophie was allowed to live at the royal court in Dessau, and in 1732 (until 1736) became the mistress of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, "the Old Dessauer". Out of this relationship came two children, later [named] von Berenhorst, who show up as ancestors in numerous family trees, such as the von Richthofens." (Wikitree)
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| Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau |
Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817)
Furst von Anhalt-Dessau 1751, Herzog von Anhalt-Dessau 1807
Husband of: Luise von Brandenburg-Schwedt (1750-1811) married 1767.
"The Princess Louis Henriette Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau (1750-1811) provides an example both for the predicaments of dynastic marriage and how to find a separate identity. She was born a Brandenburg-Schwedt and married -- under pressure from the Prussian King Friederich II -- the reigning Prince of the sovereign state of Anhalt-Dessau in 1767. Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817) was ten years her senior. He had already co-habited with a mistress (Johanna Eleonore Hoffmeier) and produced three children (1762, 1763, 1765) and was to continue as he began: in the 1780s his marriage to the Princess Louise had to accommodate his permanent co-habitation with Luise Schoch and the birth of several of their children. There was never a divorce, but an agreed separation, fraught, for Louis with financial and social difficulties. Louise von Anhalt-Dessau was not of a mind to accommodate the connection to Luise Schoch happily. She avoided contact with her as much as possible. In fact she deplored the principle of cohabitation with a mistress throughout her life and in all social circumstances. In Naples on her own 'grand tour' in 1795/96 she was adamant about not visiting Sir William Hamilton and his famous mistress -- a co-habitation only legitimized after some years with a marriage in England in 1791. Lady Emma Hamilton then became one of the most public mistresses of all time when she added Lord Nelson to her lifetime's collection of men." (Adel in Sachsen-Anhalt: 79)
His lovers were:
"The Princess Louis Henriette Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau (1750-1811) provides an example both for the predicaments of dynastic marriage and how to find a separate identity. She was born a Brandenburg-Schwedt and married -- under pressure from the Prussian King Friederich II -- the reigning Prince of the sovereign state of Anhalt-Dessau in 1767. Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817) was ten years her senior. He had already co-habited with a mistress (Johanna Eleonore Hoffmeier) and produced three children (1762, 1763, 1765) and was to continue as he began: in the 1780s his marriage to the Princess Louise had to accommodate his permanent co-habitation with Luise Schoch and the birth of several of their children. There was never a divorce, but an agreed separation, fraught, for Louis with financial and social difficulties. Louise von Anhalt-Dessau was not of a mind to accommodate the connection to Luise Schoch happily. She avoided contact with her as much as possible. In fact she deplored the principle of cohabitation with a mistress throughout her life and in all social circumstances. In Naples on her own 'grand tour' in 1795/96 she was adamant about not visiting Sir William Hamilton and his famous mistress -- a co-habitation only legitimized after some years with a marriage in England in 1791. Lady Emma Hamilton then became one of the most public mistresses of all time when she added Lord Nelson to her lifetime's collection of men." (Adel in Sachsen-Anhalt: 79)
His lovers were:
1) Friederike Wilhelmine Schulz nee Favreau (1772-1843)
Natural offspring:
1. Ludwig Ferdinand Schulz (1800-1893)
2) Johanna Eleonore Hoffmeyer (1739-1816)
Wife of Adolf Heinrich Neitschutz (1730-?), German Master of the Horse, mar 1765
2) Johanna Eleonore Hoffmeyer (1739-1816)
Wife of Adolf Heinrich Neitschutz (1730-?), German Master of the Horse, mar 1765
Natural offspring:
1. Franz Johann Georg von Waldersee (1763-1823) mar 1787
2. Luise von Anhalt (1767-1842)
3) Johanna Magdalena Luise Jager (1763-?)
German gardener's daughter.
German gardener's daughter.
Natural offspring:
1. Franziska (1789-d.y)
2. Leopoldine (1791-1847)
3. Amalie (1793-1841)
4) Leopoldine Luise Schoch (1770-?)
"If sexuality and producing the heir are to be the measure of a woman's life, then Luise von Anhalt-Dessau fulfilled her obligations by conceiving three children. . . Luise Schoch, the gardener's daughter, moved into Franz's life as a woman much younger (born 1770) and probably more than willing to bed him in the 1780s. Dynastic marraige, although the social norm, was a precarious undertaking. It was harder to manage than being a mistress -- at least that position, for the duration, was based on attraction. . . ." (Adel in Sachsen-Anhalt: 82)
Natural offspring:
1.Franz Adolf von Beringer (1792-1834) mar Auguste Wilhelmine Roeser (1793-1855)
2. Wilhelmine Sidonie von Beringer (1789-1860) mar 1815 Wilhelm von Goerne (d.1857)
3. Luise Adelheid von Beringer (1790-1870) mar 1812 Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Georg von Glafey (d.1858)
4) Leopoldine Luise Schoch (1770-?)
"If sexuality and producing the heir are to be the measure of a woman's life, then Luise von Anhalt-Dessau fulfilled her obligations by conceiving three children. . . Luise Schoch, the gardener's daughter, moved into Franz's life as a woman much younger (born 1770) and probably more than willing to bed him in the 1780s. Dynastic marraige, although the social norm, was a precarious undertaking. It was harder to manage than being a mistress -- at least that position, for the duration, was based on attraction. . . ." (Adel in Sachsen-Anhalt: 82)
Natural offspring:
1.Franz Adolf von Beringer (1792-1834) mar Auguste Wilhelmine Roeser (1793-1855)
2. Wilhelmine Sidonie von Beringer (1789-1860) mar 1815 Wilhelm von Goerne (d.1857)
3. Luise Adelheid von Beringer (1790-1870) mar 1812 Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Georg von Glafey (d.1858)
Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg 1721
Son of: Karl Friedrich, Furst von Anhalt-Bernburg & Konstanze Schmidt, Frau von Baer, mar in 1750
Husband of:
1) Luise von Anhalt-Dessau (1709-1732) mar 1724
2) Albertine von Brandenburg-Schwedt (1712-1750) mar 1733
3) Konstanze Schmidt, Frau von Bähr 1752, mar 1750
His lover was:
Constantine Friederike von Schmidt, Frau von Bahr.
Natural offspring:
1. Friederike Wilhelmine von Bähr (1752-1820)
2. Otto Heinrich Ludwig, Graf zu Solms und Tecklenburg (1740-1814) mar 1768.
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| Wilhelm Gustav von Anhalt-Dessau |
Wilhelm Gustav von Anhalt-Dessau (1699-1737)
Crown Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
His lover was:
Henriette Marianne Schardius.
Natural offspring:
1. Heinrich Wilhelm von Anhalt (1735-1801)
2. Carl Philipp von Anhalt (d.1806).
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