Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg

Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg
Duke Christian Louis
Spouse Princess Barbara of Prussia
Issue
Duchess Donata
Duchess Edwina
Full name
Christian Louis Ernest Augustus Maximilian John Albert Adolphus Frederick
German: Christian Ludwig Ernst August Maximilian Johann Albrecht Adolf Friedrich
House House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Father Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Mother Princess Alexandra of Hanover
Born 29 September 1912(1912-09-29)
Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Died 18 July 1996(1996-07-18) (aged 83)
Gut Hemmelmark, Germany
Religion Lutheranism

Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg (German: Christian-Ludwig Herzog zu Mecklenburg; 29 September 1912 – 18 July 1996) was the second son of the last reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frederick Francis IV.

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Early life

He was born in Ludwigslust the second child of the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frederick Francis IV and his wife Princess Alexandra of Hanover a daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover and Princess Thyra of Denmark. Following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I his father abdicated on 14 November 1918.

After the abolition of the monarchy, in 1919 the family went on the invitation of Queen Alexandrine, consort of Christian X of Denmark, and sister of the Grand Duke into exile in Denmark, where they lived for a year in Sorgenfri Palace. Later the family returned to Mecklenburg and lived in Gelbensande, and from 1921 the settled at Ludwigslust Castle.

Military career

After finishing school, in the autumn of 1935 he went as a recruit in the cavalry regiment 14 in Ludwigslust, with whom he was drafted in 1939 in the World War II. In 1944 he was dismissed because of a decree prohibiting members of former ruling houses from serving in the armed forces.

After the war

When the war ended, Ludwigslust was first occupied by the British, but soon was transferred to the Soviet occupation, so that Christian Louis initially went with his family to Glücksburg Castle in Schleswig-Holstein. But he soon returned to Ludwigslust to take care of the family property and was taken prisoner by the Soviet military authorities. After imprisonment he was flown to Moscow, where he was incarcerated in the Lubyanka prison for 25 years.

In 1953 he was released after the intervention of Konrad Adenauer for German POWs in the Soviet Union and came back to Christmas 1953 with his family in Glücksburg.

Marriage and family

On 5 July 1954 in Glücksburg Christian Louis married in a civil marriage, Princess Barbara of Prussia daughter of Prince Sigismund of Prussia.[1] They married in a religious ceremony on 11 July 1954. They had two daughters.[2]

  • Duchess Donata of Mecklenburg (b. 11 March 1956) married Alexander von Solodkoff and had issue.
  • Duchess Edwina of Mecklenburg (b. 25 September 1960) married Konrad von Posern and had issue.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants, page 169.
  2. ^ Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 162. Hereinafter cited as Queen Victoria's Descendants.

Sources

  • Alexander Solodkoff: Christian Ludwig Herzog zu Mecklenburg: Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Club Wien 2003, ISBN 3-933781-28-0
  • Alison Weir: Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy, The Bodley Head, London 1999, S: 292
  • Marlene A. Eilers: Queen Victoria's Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore 1987, S. 161, 162, 169
  • Peter Hoffmann: Stauffenbergs Freund - Die tragische Geschichte des Widerstandskämpfers Joachim Kuhn, Verlag C.H.Beck München 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55810-8
  • Peter Hoffmann: Oberst i.G. Henning von Tresckow und die Staatsstreichspläne im Jahr 1943, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Vol 55, 2, April 2007, S. 331-364
  • Christian Ludwig von Mecklenburg: Erzählungen aus meinem Leben, Schwerin, 3. Auflage31998, ISBN 3-910179-75-4

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