Ferdinand Maximilian, Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach
Ferdinand Maximilian III of Ysenburg-Wächtersbach (24 October 1824 – 5 June 1903) was the head of the Wächtersbach branch of the House Ysenburg and the first Prince of Isenburg-Budingen-Wächtersbach.
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Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach | |
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Reign | 9 October 1847 - 5 June 1903 |
Predecessor | Adolph II, Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach |
Successor | Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach |
Born | Wächtersbach | 24 October 1824
Died | 5 June 1903 78) Wächtersbach | (aged
Spouse | Princess Auguste of Hanau
(m. 1849; died 1887) |
House | Isenburg |
Father | Adolph II, Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach |
Mother | Countess Philippine zu Ysenburg-Philippseich |
Early life
Prince Ferdinand Maximilian III was born on 24 October 1824 in Wächtersbach. He was the only child of Adolph II, Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach and Countess Philippine zu Ysenburg-Philippseich.[1]
His paternal grandparents were Louis Maximilian I of Isenburg-Wächtersbach and Countess Auguste of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein.[2] His maternal grandparents were Heinrich Ferdinand, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen-Philippseich and Countess Amalia of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda.[3]
Career
In 1847, following the death of his father, he became the ruling Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach. From 1856 to 1903 he was a member of the first chamber of the State Parliament of the Grand Duchy of Hesse,[4] although from 1875 to 1887, he was represented by his son Friedrich Wilhelm. From 1868 to 1885, he was a member of the Kurhessian Municipal Parliament of the Prussian administrative district of Kassel and the provincial parliament of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau.[5][6]
Personal life

On 17 July 1849, he married Princess Augusta Marie Gertrude von Hanau (1829–1887) in Wilhelmshöhe.[7] Princess Auguste was the eldest daughter of the Frederick William, Elector of Hesse and his morganatic wife, Gertrude Falkenstein. Together, they were the parents of:[8]
- Friedrich Wilhelm (1850–1933), who married Countess Anna Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz (1852–1913), in 1879.[9]
- Gertrude Philippine Alexandra Maria Auguste Luise (1855–1932), who married Prince Adalbert of Ysenburg and Büdingen, a son of Ernst Casimir II, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen, in 1875. They divorced in 1877 and she married Robert, Baron von Pagenhardt.[7]
- Gerta Auguste (1863–1945), who married Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,[10] the eldest son of the Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Princess Augusta of Württemberg.[11][12]
- Wilhelm Philipp Otto Maximilian (1867–1904), who assisted Gen. Oskar von Watter; he died unmarried.[13]
His wife died on 18 September 1887. Prince Ferdinand Maximilian III died on 5 June 1903 in Wächtersbach.
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References
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- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (in German). C.A. Starke. 2004. p. 233. ISBN 978-3-7980-0833-5. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- G, Simon (1865). Bd. Das Ysenburg und Büdingen'sche Urkundenbuch (in German). Brönner. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- Balla, Ignác (1913). The Romance of the Rothschilds. E. Nash. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-9814-1515-1. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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- Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique (in French). J. Perthes. 1880. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et; Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 817. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- Born, Karl Erich (1966). Quellensammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik, 1867 bis 1914: Begründet von Peter Rassow. Im Auftrag der Historischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur hrsg (in German). F. Steiner. pp. 170, 564. ISBN 978-3-534-13437-3. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- Staatschandbuch für das Grossherzogtum Sachsen (in German). 1900. p. 10. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- "PRINCESS WHO COST A THRONE IS VISITING HERE; Countess Ostheim, Who Married the Heir Apparent of Saxe-Weimer, Is in New York -- A Former Stage Beauty". The New York Times. 27 November 1910. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- Engelmann, Bernt (1984). Germany Without Jews. Bantam Books. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-553-24445-8. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- Diehl, James M. (1977). Paramilitary Politics in Weimar Germany. Indiana University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-253-34292-8. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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