Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt

Marie Antoinette Auguste Friederike Luise Princess Alexandra Hilda von Anhalt ( born June 10, 1898 in Ballenstedt; † 22 May 1983; Essen) was the daughter of Edward Duke of Anhalt and Louise Charlotte Marie Agnes Princess of Saxe -Altenburg.

Marie Auguste was from 1916, first marriage to Prince Joachim of Prussia, the sixth son of Emperor Wilhelm II. From the marriage of the son of Karl Franz Joseph of Prussia (1916-1975) emerged.

After the suicide of her husband in 1920, she married her second husband in 1926 Johannes -Michael Freiherr von Loen. This marriage ended in divorce in 1935. Marie Auguste of Anhalt was the mid-50s to the advanced age receptionist in the foyer of the Essen headquarters of WASAG -Chemie Aktiengesellschaft, a company of brothers Berthold and Harald von Bohlen und Halbach. After the death of her son in 1980 she was now destitute. Therefore, they adopted Robert Lichtenberg, the operator of several sauna clubs who cared for their maintenance and Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt since called. Marie Auguste died in 1983 in Essen.