Princess Augusta of Württemberg (4 October 1826 in

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– 3 December 1898, ibid.) was a daughter of King

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and his wife, Pauline of Württemberg.

Life

Augusta was the third and last child of her parents' marriage. She was described as unattractive, but cheerful and wise. On 17 June 1851, she married Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach. He was her age and served in the Cavalry of Württemberg as an officer. Later that year, he was promoted from

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. In 1853, he was promoted to commander of the guards regiment. Weimar Palace at Neckarstraße 25 was, for many years, the center of an artistically oriented social life. In 1865, Hermann left the army with the rank of lieutenant general, because he was denied further promotions. He had tried to become King Charles's adjutant general and imperial governor of Alsace-Lorraine but was unsuccessful. For lack of other activities, Prince Weimar, as he was called in Stuttgart, supported social, patriotic and artistic societies.

Issue

Hermann and Augusta had six children: *

Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Pauline Ida Marie Olga Henriette Katherine; 25 July 1852 – 17 May 1904) was the wife of Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Early life She was a daughter of Prince Her ...

(1852-1904) : married in 1873 to Hereditary Grand Duke

Charles Augustus Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political uni ...

of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844-1894) *

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 ...

(1853-1924) : married in 1885 to Princess Gerta of Isenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach (1863-1945) * Prince Bernhard Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1855-1907), from 1901 "Count of Crayenburg", married :# in 1900 to Marie Louise Brockmüller (1866-1903) :# in 1905 to Countess Elisabeth von der Schulenburg (1869-1940) * Prince Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1857-1891) * Prince Ernest of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1859-1909) * Princess Olga of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1869-1924) : married in 1902 to Prince Leopold of Isenburg-Büdingen (1866-1933), eldest son of

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Ancestry

References

* Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, and Volker Press (eds.): ''Das Haus Württemberg. Ein biographisches Lexikon'',

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, Stuttgart, 1997, 1826 births 1898 deaths Princesses of Württemberg 19th-century German people Daughters of kings {{Germany-noble-stub