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Biography
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' marriage. She was described as unattractive, but cheerful and wise. On 17 June 1851, she married Prince Hermann. He was her age, and served in the Cavalry of Württemberg as an officer. Later that year, he was promoted from Rittmeister to Lieutenant Colonel. 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 and failed to become King Charles's adjutant general. He had also tried and failed to become imperial governor of Alsace-Lorraine. For lack of other activities, Prince Weimar, as he was called in Stuttgart, supported social, patriottic and artistic societies.
Issue
Hermann and Augusta had four sons and two daughters:
- Pauline (1852-1904)
- married in 1873 to Hereditary Grand Duke Charles Augustus of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844-1894)
- Wilhelm (1853-1924)
- married in 1885 to Princess Gerta of Isenburg-Büdingen-Wächtersbach (1863-1945)
- Bernhard (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)
- Alexander (1857-1891)
- Ernest (1859-1909)
- Olga (1869-1924)
- married in 1902 to Prince Leopold of Isenburg-Büdingen (1866-1933), eldest son of Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen.