Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hanau und Horowitz

Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanau-Hořowitz (4 May 1832 – 24 March 1889) was a German aristocrat.

Early life Prince Friedrich was born at the Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel on 4 May 1832. He was the eldest son of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (1802–1875), and his morganatic wife, Gertrude Falkenstein (1803–1882), whom he later elevated to Princess of Hanau and Hořowitz . His father served as Elector of Hesse until the electorate was abolished in 1866. upon his father's death in 1875, Friedrich Wilhelm and his younger brothers were all excluded from the line of succession due to their parents' morganatic marriage. Therefore, his uncle, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, succeeded as titular Elector of Hesse and the Head of the House of Hesse-Kassel.

At their birth, his sons were Counts von Schaumburg, but post-1918, his descendants bear the title Prince and Princess von Hanau.

His second marriage was to Ludovika Bertha Luise Gloede (1840–1912) on 8 April 1875. Also an actress, she was the daughter of the Rev. Friedrich Gloede and Maria Dorothea Goldbeck. Although married in 1875, he already had two sons with her:

Friedrich August (1864–1940), who married Hildegard von Zsadány, Countess Almasy, in 1899; m. second, Ernestine Christine Detzer.

Prince Friedrich died at Hořovice in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region (today a part of the Czech Republic) on 24 March 1889.

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