Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg

Princess Marianne of Prussia, actually Marie Anne Amalie, née Princess of Hesse -Homburg (* October 13, 1785 in Bad Homburg, † April 14, 1846 in Berlin) was a German noblewoman.

Life

Princess Marianne of Prussia was born in 1785 as Marie Anne Countess Amalie of Hesse- Homburg. She was the twelfth child (and the sixth daughter) of Landgrave Frederick V and his wife Caroline of Hesse -Darmstadt, daughter of Landgrave Ludwig IX. of Hesse- Darmstadt and Henriette Karoline von Pfalz- Zweibrücken, the great Countess.

1804 she married Prince Wilhelm of Prussia ( 1783-1851 ), the youngest brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia.

From this marriage the sons Adalbert (1811-1873) and Waldemar (1817-1849) and the daughters Elisabeth (1815-1885) Marie went, since 1836 the wife of Prince Charles of Hesse -Darmstadt, mother of Grand Duke Ludwig IV, and ( 1825-1889) later wife out of King Maximilian II of Bavaria.

With Queen Luise of Prussia Marianne was one of the " war party " against Napoleon. In March 1813 adopted Princess Marianne of the famous "Call of the royal princesses of the women in the Prussian state " and founded the " Patriotic Women's Association ". Thus they became known far beyond Berlin. Political reformers such as Freiherr vom Stein, Hardenberg and Humboldt brothers were among their correspondents. She was friends with the poet Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and after the death of Queen Louise, the "First Lady " of the Prussian court. Your social engagement was announced, it later also took care of the Berlin prison inmates and founded in Berlin's Pankow a children's home.

In 1822 she fell in the same age Counts of Stolberg- Wernigerode Anton, a friend of her husband, as is evident from her diary published in 2006.

In 1845, Marianne visited for the last time her birth town of Bad Homburg. She died on 14 April 1846 a " rheumatic nervous" fever in Berlin.

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