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.

Early life

Prince Ferdinand Maximilian III was born on 24 October 1824 in

Wächtersbach The town of Wächtersbach is part of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. In 1982, the town hosted the 22nd ''Hessentag'' state festival. Location Wächtersbach lies between the Spessart and the Vogelsberg Mountains in the middle Kinzig val ...

. He was the only child of Adolph II, Count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach and Countess Philippine zu Ysenburg-Philippseich.Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
/ref> His paternal grandparents were Louis Maximilian I of Isenburg-Wächtersbach and Countess Auguste of

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a county and later principality between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia. History The county with imperial immediacy was formed by the 1657 partition of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein and raised from a county to ...

. His maternal grandparents were Heinrich Ferdinand, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen-Philippseich and Countess Amalia of

Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda was a historical county of the Holy Roman Empire, located in present northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia and southwestern Lower Saxony, Germany. The princely branch of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda, with its family seats ...

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 The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (german: link=no, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 ...

, 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 Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

and the provincial parliament of the Prussian

Province of Hesse-Nassau The Province of Hesse-Nassau () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944. Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the p ...

Personal life

On 17 July 1849, he married Princess ''Augusta'' Marie Gertrude von Hanau (1829–1887) in Wilhelmshöhe. Princess Auguste was the eldest daughter of the

Frederick William, Elector of Hesse Frederick William I (20 August 1802 – 6 January 1875) was, between 1847 and 1866, the last Prince-elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). Early life He was born at Hanau on 20 August 1802. He was the son of Prince William, later William ...

and his morganatic wife, Gertrude Falkenstein. Together, they were the parents of: * Friedrich Wilhelm (1850–1933), who married Countess Anna Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz (1852–1913), in 1879. * 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 ''Ernst Casimir II'' of Ysenburg and Büdingen (14 December 1806, Büdingen – 16 February 1861, Büdingen) was the second Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen. Ernst Casimir was the eldest son and second eldest child of Ernst Casimir I, 1st Prince ...

, in 1875. They divorced in 1877 and she married Robert, Baron von Pagenhardt. * ''Gerta'' Auguste (1863–1945), who married

Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Prince Wilhelm Karl Bernhard Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (21 December 1853 – 15 December 1924) was a member of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Life Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was born on 21 December 1853 in Stuttgart. He wa ...

, the eldest son of the

Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...

and

Princess Augusta of Württemberg Princess Augusta of Württemberg (4 October 1826 in Stuttgart – 3 December 1898, ibid.) was a daughter of King William I of Württemberg and his wife, Pauline of Württemberg. Life Augusta was the third and last child of her parents' marr ...

. * Wilhelm Philipp Otto ''Maximilian'' (1867–1904), who assisted Gen.

Oskar von Watter Oskar Walther Gerhard Julius Freiherr von Watter (born 2 September 1861 in Ludwigsburg; died 23 August 1939 in Berlin) was a German ''Generalleutnant'' who came from an old Pomerania, Pomeranian noble family. World War I In April 1913, von Wat ...

; he died unmarried. His wife died on 18 September 1887. Prince Ferdinand Maximilian III died on 5 June 1903 in Wächtersbach.

Ancestry

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferdinand Maximilian, Prince of Ysenburg-Budingen-Wachtersbach 1824 births 1903 deaths Counts of Isenburg-Wächtersbach 19th-century German people German princes Princes of Ysenburg and Büdingen