Gustav, Prince of Vasa

Gustav von Holstein -Gottorp, Prince of Sweden, in 1829 Gustav Prince of Wasa (* November 9, 1799 in Stockholm, Sweden, † August 4, 1877 in Pillnitz ) was an exiled prince of Swedish and Austrian field marshal lieutenant. Since he was not allowed to call it " Prince of Sweden " as a member of a deposed dynasty, he called himself after the extinct old Swedish royal family Vasa.

Life

Gustav was the eldest son of Gustav IV Adolf of Holstein- Gottorp, King of Sweden, and his wife, the Princess Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden. On March 13, 1809 Gustav's father was deposed and lived since then as " Colonel Gustafson " in exile in Switzerland. Even the Prince had to leave his home as a boy and was in Karlsruhe, where his mother herstammte been educated. Finally, he found refuge in Vienna and his sisters. In 1825, he joined the Imperial and Royal Army. He was one of the very few Swedes who ever stood in the Austrian service.

As a member of an - albeit remote - royal family, he began his career immediately as a lieutenant colonel in the kk Uhlan Regiment No. 4 Two years later he was a colonel in the kk Infantry Regiment 60th 1828, he became the commander of the Grenadier Battalion of the kk Infantry Regiment No. 2 ordered. In 1829 he was promoted to Major General and appointed commander of a brigade stationed in Vienna. In those years there were rumors that Gustav would have had an affair with the Archduchess Sophie and be the biological father of her two sons Franz Joseph and Maximilian Ferdinand in Vienna.

On November 9, 1830, he married in Karlsruhe, the Princess Louise Amelie Stephanie of Baden, the daughter of Grand Duke Karl Ludwig Friedrich of Baden and Stéphanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais, Countess of Beauharnais. In 1831 he was owner of the k.k. Infantry Regiment Prince of Wasa, No. 60 in 1836 he reached the rank of field marshal lieutenant. The next twelve years he was commander of the Vienna Division. In December 1848 he was on leave permanently and lived since then withdrawn in Vienna.

Half a century after his exile, he was first given permission to visit his old home in Sweden. On the way back he died in August 1877, 77 years with his daughter in Pillnitz in Saxony.

In Vienna, reminiscent of Gustav of Sweden Wasagasse in the 9th district Alsergrund in which his palace was, and the former Wasagasse in the 13th district Hietzing, in which was his Hackinger castle ( since 1894 Seuttergasse ).

Progeny

• Louis ( * / † 1832)
• Carola (1833-1907) - married to King Albert I of Saxony