Hugo, 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl Hugo, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest (title in German: Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Herzog von Ujest; 27 May 1816 – 23 August 1897) was a German nobleman, politician, mining industrialist and general in the armies of the kingdom of Württemberg and the kingdom of Prussia.

Early life A hereditary prince of the House of Hohenlohe, he was born in Stuttgart on 27 May 1816. He was the son of August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen.

His paternal grandparents were Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, and Countess Maria Amalie von Hoym. His uncle was Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (who briefly served as Minister-President of Prussia in 1862 and was succeeded by Otto von Bismarck), and his cousin was Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen.

Career

His paternal grandfather, Frederick Louis, had acquired the estates of Slawentzitz, Ujest and Bitschin in Silesia by marriage in 1782, an area of 108 square miles. Prince Hugo inherited these lands, as well as his Franconian properties (Öhringen and Neuenstein), and established calamine mines. He also founded one of the largest zinc smelting plants in the world. The Prussian king, William I (later German Emperor), granted him the hereditary title of Herzog von Ujest (Duke of Ujest) upon the king's coronation in 1861.

Personal life On 15 April 1847, he married Princess Pauline Wilhelmine Karoline Amalie zu Fürstenberg (Donaueschingen, 11 June 1829 – Slawentzitz, 3 August 1900). She was the youngest child of Amalie of Baden and Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg.

Together, they were the parents of: Christian Kraft Herzog zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (Öhringen, 21 March 1848 – Somogyszob, 14 May 1926), who married Otilie Lubraniec-Dąmbski (1868–1922). Knight of Honour of the Johanniter Order, 18 January 1850 Knight of the Prussian Crown, 1st Class, 19 January 1862; with Enamel Band of the Red Eagle, 1865 Grand Cross of the Wilhelmsorden Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1847 Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion, 1847 Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1860 Military Medical Cross, 12 August 1871 Knight of St. Anna, 2nd Class Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1892 Grand Cross of the Friedrich Order, 1846 Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1864 Knight of the Order of Olga, 1872

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