August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (11 November 1612 – 6 May 1675) was a Danish-German prince and member of the

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. After acquiring the estate of Beck in

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in 1646, he took the title of

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Biography

August Philipp was born on 11 November 1612 in

Sønderborg (; german: Sonderburg ) is a Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Sønderborg Municipality (Kommune). The town has a population of 27,766 (1 January 2022),Als Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most com ...

in the

Duchy of Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ( ...

, (then a Danish fief). He was the fifth son of

Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, (20 January 157313 May 1627) was a Danish nobleman. Alexander was born in Sønderborg (German: ''Sonderburg'') in Schleswig, the third son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Eli ...

and

Dorothea of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Dorothea (also spelled Dorothée, Dorotea or other variants) is a female given name from Greek (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to: People * Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war cri ...

. Duke Alexander died in 1627 in Sønderborg and left his tiny duchy heavily indebted. In his will, he had stipulated that his wife should keep unaltered estate to pay the debt, and that the eldest son, John Christian, should inherit the entire duchy but remain unmarried for the time being. The widowed Duchess Dorothea was in charge of the duchy during the ensuing war years, but was unable to pay off the debt, which, on the contrary, was still growing. As a consequence, she agreed that the brothers concluded an inheritance agreement on 17 December 1633, according to which John Christian inherited the duchy in exchange for paying a significant annual amount to his mother and siblings. After the inheritance agreement in 1633, August Philipp severed his ties with Denmark and emigrated to Germany at the age of 21, where he made a career as an officer. In

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he bought the estate

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neat the city of Ulenburg,

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, from 1648 in the

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within the

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, from his sister Sophie Katharina, which she had received in dowry from her brother John Christian, upon her marriage to

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. Haus Beck was August Philipp's childhood home, and here he lived for the last 29 years of his life, where he called himself Duke of

. He died 6 May 1675 at Haus Beck, then

, and was succeeded as duke first by his oldest son,

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, and later by his second son, Frederick Louis.

Marriages and issue

August Philipp married three times. In 1645, he married

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, daughter of

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. In 1647, he married

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, another daughter of

at Haus Beck. On 12 April 1651, he married

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, daughter of

William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (18 December 1590, Ottweiler – 22 August 1640, Metz), was a Count of Saarbrücken. Life His parents were Louis II of Nassau-Weilburg (died: 8 November 1627 in Saarbrücken) and Landgravine Anna Maria ...

at Haus Beck. His daughter Sophie Louise married Frederick (1638-1684), son of

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. His other daughter Dorothea Amalia married Count Philipp Ernest (1659–1753), son of Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Legacy

August Philipp founded the ducal line of

. His sons and their descendance went into

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and

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service until his grandson's great-grandson took over

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and the line changed its name to Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in 1825. August Philip is thus a male-line ancestor of the

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and

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royal families.

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