Leopold I, Prince of Lippe
Wilhelm Leopold I ( born December 2, 1767 in Detmold, † April 4, 1802 ibid ) was the first Prince of Lippe.
Life
Leopold I was a son of Count Simon August from his second marriage with Maria Leopoldine of Anhalt- Dessau. The mother died in April 15, 1769, his stepmother was the social reformer Kasimire whose sister. She died in 1778. Upon his father ( 1782 ) Death Leopold I was only 14 years old. He was considered a difficult child who learned hard, he rebelled against the upbringing and was obstinate. They gave him to the improvement to Dessau in the care of his uncle Leopold III. Friedrich Franz (Anhalt -Dessau ), the oldest brother of Leopoldine and Kasimire. There he was sent to Basedow's famous philanthropist, then 18 to the University of Leipzig. Everywhere was the same unfavorable judgment: lack of strength of character, stupidity, flaccidity, discontinuity in the hard work, lack of interest, lack of concentration, tendency to mental disorder.
On November 5, 1789 took the 21 -year-old government. First, he broke the one still applied in 1720 by his grandfather, Simon Heinrich Prince letter by paying the required costs for this. In December, the young prince had been in Eden the garden in honor of his late father's place the created by sculptor slip of the Teutoburg Forest Sandstone Memorial ( weeping cherub on a pedestal with relief portrait ) - current location: Park Avenue Bad Meinberg at the entrance to the park.
1790 came the above diagnosed mental disorder to the outbreak and it was followed by his incapacitation by the Imperial Court of Justice; 1795 then the guardianship was canceled due after improvement occurs. On January 2, 1796, he married Pauline of Anhalt- Bernburg. In this marriage convalesced the prince and was the father of two sons. Pauline was his advisor and collaborator, where it established it wise mostly stayed in the background and everything avoided what could be interpreted as a transgression of their duties. After almost six years of marriage, the prince died in 1802 of intestinal tuberculosis, under whose influence due to more einstellten mental disorder and memory loss.
Pauline took over in the following years the regency for the still immature Crown Prince, later the Prince Leopold II and was considered admirable mother of the nation.
Progeny
Leopold I had with Pauline of Anhalt- Bernburg two children:
- Paul Alexander Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796-1851)
- Friedrich, Prince of Lippe ( born December 8, 1797 in Detmold, † October 20, 1854 in Lemgo )