Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau

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Princess Hilda
Hilda around 1865
Born(1839-12-13)13 December 1839
Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, German Confederation
Died22 December 1926(1926-12-22) (aged 87)
Dessau, Germany
HouseAscania
FatherPrince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau
MotherPrincess Marie Luise of Hesse-Kassel

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).

Biography[edit]

She was the third child of the marriage formed by the prince Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau and the princess Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. Her priest was his son Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife was Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg. For her part, her mother was the daughter of prince Prince William of Hesse-Kassel and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Denmark.[2]

She is one of the sister mayors who contradicted marriage with German princes:

  1. Adelheid-Marie (1833–1916), married in 1851 to Adolphe, last Duke of Nassau and later, first Grand Duke of Luxembourg. From her descends the current Grand Ducal House of Luxembourg.
  2. Bathildis Amalgunde (1837–1902), married on May 30, 1862, to prince Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, son of George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippee. The married mayor, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, married William II of Württemberg, the last king of Wurtemberg.

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, met in Florence where they coincided with the family of her cousin the Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, including her daughter Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, who with at that time she would be later be queen consort of the United Kingdom.[3] In 1890, together with his sister Batilde, they visited the bathing station in Bad Kissingen.[4]

In 1905 she was his lady of the company (hofdame) the baroness von Heynitz.[5]

During the First World War she participated as leader in the 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 entered into a marriage and died in Dessau in 1926 aged 87.

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Anhalt". Almanach de Gotha for 1914. Almanach de Gotha (in French). 1914. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch für die Herzogthümer Anhalt-Dessau und Anhalt-Köthen: 1851". Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch für die Herzogthümer Anhalt-Dessau und Anhalt-Köthen. 1851. p. 6.
  3. ^ Pope-Hennessy, James (1959). "Book I. Princess May. Chapter five. Exile to Florence.". Queen Mary, 1867-1953. p. 121.
  4. ^ "Der Fürstensaal im Bahnhof Bad Kissingen" (PDF) (in German).
  5. ^ "[Fremden-Liste]". Altausseer Fremdenliste. 13 September 1905.
  6. ^ Decker, Horst. "Deutscher Krieger-Hilfsbund - Versorgung kriegsbedingt verarmter Soldaten". www.profilm.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
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