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Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
Born(1825-07-14)14 July 1825
Klipphausen
Died2 May 1906(1906-05-02) (aged 80)
Trzebiechów
Noble familyHouse of Reuss
Spouse(s)Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
FatherHeinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
MotherCountess Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (Template:Lang-de; 14 July 1825, Klipphausen – 2 May 1906, Trzebiechów) was a German diplomat.

Life

Prince Heinrich VII Reuss was born in 1825 as the fifth child and third son of Prince Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz and his first wife, Countess Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode. From 1845 to 1848 he studied law at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg and Humboldt University of Berlin. He then joined the 8th Lancers Regiment. From 1853, he pursued a diplomatic career.

From 1854 to 1863 he worked as an advisor in the Prussian embassy in Paris. Then he was sent as Prussian royal ambassador to Kassel, and later to Munich. On 5 February 1868 he was posted as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the North German Confederation to the Russian court at St. Petersburg by William I, who was still King of Prussia at that time. On 26 April 1871 he was designated the first ambassador of the German Empire by William, who had been crowned Emperor a few months earlier.

From 1873 to 1876 he served Emperor William I as adjutant general. In 1876 he married Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and became a member of the Prussian House of Lords. In 1877, he was the first imperial ambassador to Constantinople, where he opened the magnificent Embassy building, which he was allowed to set up to his own taste. Just one year later he went as German ambassador to Vienna; this was his last foreign assignment.

In 1894, he retired to his castle in Trzebiechów (Template:Lang-de), where he died on 2 May 1906.

Descendants

On 6 February 1876, Heinrich VII married Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, daughter of Grand Duke Charles Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. From this marriage, he had the following children:

married in 1920 (divorced 1921) Princess Marie Adelaide of Lippe (1895-1993)
married firstly in 1913 (divorced 1922) Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia (1890-1923)
married secondly in 1929 (divorced 1935) Allene Tew (1876-1955)
  • Johanna (1882–1883)
  • Sophie Renate (1884–1968)
married in 1909 Prince Heinrich XXXIV Reuss (1887-1956)
  • Heinrich XXXV (1887–1936)
married firstly in 1911 (divorced 1921) Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1888-1947)
married secondly in 1921 (divorced 1923) Princess Marie Adelaide of Lippe (1895-1993)

Ancestry

Family of Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
16. Count Heinrich XXIV Reuss Köstritz
8. Heinrich IX, Count Reuss of Köstritz
17. Baroness Eleonore von Promnitz-Dittersbach
4. Prince Heinrich XLIV Reuss of Köstritz
18. Count Karl von Wartensleben und Flodroff
9. Countess Amalie von Wartensleben-Flodroff
19. Johanna Margaretha Huyssen van Kattendijke
2. Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
20. Baron Johann von Geuder genannt Rabensteiner
10. Baron Friedrich Christian von Geuder genannt Rabensteiner
22. Baroness Sophia von Lettmath
5. Baroness Wilhelmine von Geuder genannt Rabensteiner
22. Johann von Bredow
11. Johanna von Bredow
23. Sophie von Borcke
1. Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz
24. Count Heinrich Ernst of Stolberg-Wernigerode
12. Count Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode
25. Princess Christiane of Anhalt-Köthen
6. Count Heinrich of Stolberg-Wernigerode
26. Christoph Ludwig, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg
13. Countess Auguste of Stolberg-Stolberg
27. Countess Luise of Stolberg-Rossla
3. Countess Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode
28. Count Albrecht of Schönburg-Waldenburg
14. Prince Otto Karl Friedrich of Schonburg-Waldenburg
29. Friederike von der Marwitz
7. Princess Johanna of Schonburg-Waldenburg
30. Count Heinrich XXIII Reuss-Köstritz
15. Countess Henriette Eleonore Elisabeth Reuss-Köstritz
31. Countess Ernestine of Schönburg-Wechselburg

References

  • Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum, vol. 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, 1941
  • Heinrich Heffter (1969), "Heinrich VII. Prinz Reuß-Köstritz", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 8, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 387–388
Preceded by German ambassador in Austria
1878-1894 		Succeeded by

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