''Louis William'' , reign = 3 November 186628 September 1890 , succession = Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt , successor =

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, predecessor =

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, house =

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, spouse = Landgravine Bertha of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld , issue = Adelheid, Landgravine Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
Juliane, Landgravine Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
Marie, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt , reign = 28 September 1890 –21 January 1919 , succession = Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt , successor = Viktor Adolf , predecessor = Ludwig Wilhelm , house = House of Bentheim and Steinfurt , spouse = Princess Pauline of Waldeck ...

Prince Karl
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Alexius, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt Alexius Frederick, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt (20 January 1781 – 3 November 1866) was a German nobleman. Life He descended from the younger branch of the House of Bentheim-Steinfurt. His father was Prince Louis William Geldricus Erne ...

, mother = Countess Wilhelmine of Solms-Braunfels ''Ludwig Wilhelm'', Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt (german: link=no, Ludwig Wilhelm Fürst zu Bentheim und Steinfurt; 1 August 181228 September 1890) was a Royal Hanoverian and

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

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and the Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt from 3 November 1866 to 28 September 1890.

Early life

Ludwig Wilhelm was born in Burgsteinfurt, Electorate of Hanover on 1 August 1812 and was the eldest son and child of Alexius, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1781–1866) and his wife Princess Wilhelmine of

Solms-Braunfels Solms-Braunfels was a County and later Principality with Imperial immediacy in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany. Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, ruled by the House of Solms, and was raised to a Principality of th ...

(1793–1865). Ludwig Wilhelm was an elder brother of Prince Wilhelm Ferdinand of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1814–1849), Prince Julius Arnold of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1815–1857), Prince Karl Everwin of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1816–1854), Princess Augusta Juliana of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1817–1880), and Prince Ferdinand Otto of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1819–1889).

Military career

From 1844, Ludwig Wilhelm was made

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à la suite À la suite (, ''in the entourage f') was a military title given to those who were allotted to the army or a particular unit for honour's sake, and entitled to wear a regimental uniform but otherwise had no official position. In Prussia, these w ...

of the Royal Hanoverian Regiments Garde du Corps and rose to Major in 1849. In 1855, Ludwig Wilhelm was made Lieutenant Colonel,

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in 1859,

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in 1862, and

in 1879.

Political career

In 1866, Ludwig Wilhelm succeeded his father as head of the Princely House of Bentheim and Steinfurt. As such, he became a hereditary member of the

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and the First Chamber of the Diet of the Kingdom of Hanover. Following Hanover's annexation by Prussia, Ludwig Wilhelm served as a member of Westphalian Provincial Council. Beginning in 1875, Ludwig Wilhelm became a member of the Württembergian Chamber of Lords. He inherited the seat from his childless uncle Prince Ferdinand of Solms-Braunfels who died in 1873. After 1884, Ludwig Wilhelm was represented at the Württembergian Chamber of Lords in Stuttgart by his son,

Marriage and issue

Ludwig Wilhelm married Landgravine Bertha of

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, eldest child and daughter of

Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld Landgrave Charles August Ludwig Philip of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (27 June 1784 in Barchfeld – 17 July 1854 in Philippsthal) was a member of the House of Hesse and was the ruling Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1803 to 180 ...

and his first wife Princess Augusta of

Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a German County of the House of Hohenlohe, located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Ingelfingen. Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a scion of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. It was raised from a County to a Principality i ...

, on 27 June 1839 at Schloss Barchfeld, Barchfeld. Ludwig Wilhelm and Bertha had six children: *Princess Adelheid of Bentheim and Steinfurt (17 May 1840 – 31 January 1880) : ∞ 1879

Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (3 October 1831 – 17 January 1890), was a German prince of the Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld branch of the House of Hesse, and ''Konteradmiral'' (counter admiral) of the Prussian and Imperial German Navy. ...

(1831–1890) *Princess Juliane of Bentheim and Steinfurt (5 January 1842 – 29 April 1878) : ∞ 1873

(1831–1890) *Princess Marie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (26 October 1843 – 22 January 1931) : ∞ 1867 Ludwig, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1831–1912) *

(17 November 1845 – 21 January 1919) : ∞ 1881

Princess Pauline of Waldeck and Pyrmont , reign = 28 September 189021 January 1919 , succession = Princess consort of Bentheim and Steinfurt , house = Waldeck and Pyrmont , spouse = Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt(m. 1881; died 1919) , issue = Prince EberwynViktor Adolf, ...

(1855–1925) *Prince Karl of Bentheim and Steinfurt (21 February 1848 – 30 March 1854) *Prince Georg of Bentheim and Steinfurt (28 June 1851 – 28 April 1939) : ∞ 1889 Gertrud Porth (1866–1942), created ''Freifrau von Althaus'' by

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ernest II (german: Ernst August Karl Johann Leopold Alexander Eduard, link=no; 21 June 181822 August 1893) was Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 29 January 1844 to his death in 1893. He was born in Coburg to Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfel ...

Honours and awards

He received the following orders and decorations:

Ancestry

References

Literature

* Frank Raberg: ''Biographisches Handbuch der württembergischen Landtagsabgeordneten 1815–1933''.

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, Stuttgart 2001

External links

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