Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine
- Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine ("Ludwig Hermann Alexander Chlodwig", 20 November 1908 - 30 May1968) was the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse by his second wife Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.
He succeeded his brother Georg Donatus as the titular Grand Duke of Hesse after his death. He married the Hon. Margaret Campbell-Geddes (1913-1997) daughter of Auckland Campbell-Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes in 1937, on the day after the Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash. They had no issue, although after the death of his older brother, he adopted his niece, Johanna (b. 1936) but the little girl died in 1939. In 1960 he adopted his distant cousin Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse who succeeded to his claims to the title "Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine" on his death in 1968. [http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Hesse_Cassel_Royal_Family.htm#45.14531]
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