Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess Augusta Caroline of Brunswick -Wolfenbüttel, full name Auguste Karoline Friederike Luise of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel ( born December 3, 1764 in Braunschweig, † September 27, 1788 in Koluvere / Estonia ) was a member of the House of Hanover ( Guelph ) and by marriage Princess of Württemberg.

Life

Auguste Karoline was the eldest daughter of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1735-1806) and his wife Princess Augusta of Hanover (1737-1813), daughter of Friedrich Ludwig of Hanover, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg. She was thus a niece of King George III. of Great Britain and Ireland.

On October 11, 1780 married Princess Auguste Karoline in Brunswick the Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Württemberg ( 1754-1816 ), eldest son of Duke Frederick Eugene and Princess Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg- Schwedt Sophia.

The marriage between Frederick and Karoline Auguste was loaded from the start. The then 16 -year-old was far inferior to the ten- year-older husband in her childlike playfulness. This was her intellectual advance, and confidently to dogmatism. 1781, already pregnant, she wanted to dispose of, but was pressured by her father to stay with her ​​husband. 1783 the family moved to Russian Finland, as Empress Catherine the Great Frederick began there as Governor General. In Russia increased the contrast and it came even to violence.

Auguste Karoline won the favor of the Empress, which awarded her the Katharine north in 1783. She spent most of Zeiteim environment of the Tsar Court in a house that the Tsarina had given her, and went rarely by Wiborg, where her husband resided. In the years 1781-1785 she brought four children to the world. In December 1786, she threw herself after a theatrical presentation for help before Empress Catherine II This, who was aware of the situation, did not hesitate took Auguste Karoline in her care and referred Frederick the country. Auguste was brought to Castle Lohde in the care of sixty years, adopted Hofjägermeisters of Pohlmann; this may be abused that trust. Auguste Karoline died on September 16, 1788 after a miscarriage when her all medical care was denied to cover up the pregnancy. She is now buried in the church of Kullamaa.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (1781-1864), King of Württemberg

• Katharina Friederike Sophie Dorothea (1783-1835)

• Augusta Sophia Dorothea Maria (1783-1784)
• Paul Friedrich Karl August (1785-1852)