Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Force Prince of Hohenlohe- Langenburg ( born June 25, 1935 in Schwäbisch Hall, † March 16, 2004 ibid ) was from 1960 to 2004 head of the House Hohenlohe -Langenburg and called himself as such Prince of Hohenlohe -Langenburg.
Biography
Force Prince of Hohenlohe- Langenburg was born as the first son of Gottfried Prinz zu Hohenlohe -Langenburg and his wife Princess Margarita of Greece. His mother was the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his wife Princess Alice of Battenberg. He was therefore cousin of the British heir to the throne Prince Charles.
He was trained as a forester and a banker and took over at the age of 25 years after the death of his father, the Langenburg possession.
In the night from 23 to 24 January 1963, the chimney fire Langenburg Castle destroyed almost completely. The fire destroyed the entire east wing, the watch and bed tower and parts of the north wing. The redevelopment effort of five million DM could be applied only by selling Weikersheim in 1967 to the State of Baden- Wuerttemberg.
Hohenlohe -Langenburg was a member of the Evangelical Synod of Württemberg ( 1965-1974 ), member of the district council ( 1965-1979 ), the board of the Red Cross District Association ( 1984-2000 ), in the local church council and the Rotary Club (from 1961). Of his public offices he withdrew with increasing age and focused on the management and maintenance of the castle, the car museum, founded in 1970, the maintenance of the extensive 2700 hectare forest ownership around Langenburg and Weikersheim and his honor as President of the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens. Prince of Hohenlohe- Langenburg died in Haller 's diaconal hospital from the effects of a serious illness.
Marriages and descendants
In 1965 wed force of Hohenlohe- Langenburg with Charlotte Alexandra Princess of Croy ( born December 31, 1938); They were divorced in 1990. From this marriage two daughters and son Philip went bold (* 1970).
On 22 May 1992, he married his second wife in Graz, the Austrian Irma Pospesch (* 1946). The marriage remained childless.