Victor Friedrich of Anhalt-Bernburg ( German: Viktor Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg ; September 20, 1700 , Bernburg - May 18, 1765 , Bernburg ) - Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg from the Askaniev clan.
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| Successor | Friedrich Albrecht Anhalt-Bernburg | ||||||
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Biography
Victor Friedrich is the son of Prince Karl Friedrich of Anhalt-Bernburg and his wife Sophia Albertina Solms-Sonnenwald (1672-1708), daughter of Count George Friedrich Solms-Sonnenwald. In the years 1717-1718, the prince went on a grand tour of France, he inherited his father in Anhalt-Bernburg in 1721. He served in the Prussian army with the rank of captain and captain, and was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle .
Victor Friedrich showed particular interest in mining and metallurgy , often visited the Harz mines. Since 1724, the prince of Anhalt-Bernburg was the sole owner of mining in the Harz, his name was a silver smelter. The prince has acquired numerous estates. In 1752, an uprising broke out in Anhalt-Bernburg against the princely hunt. In 1755, Victor Friedrich became the head of the Anhalt House.
In Bernburg, Victor Friedrich erected a government building in 1745, and in 1752 a church on the mountain. He developed the infrastructure of the city and unsuccessfully tried to breed silkworms in the principality. The seven-year war plunged the principality into a financial crisis.
Family and Descendants
On November 25, 1724, at the Dessau Palace, Victor Friedrich married Louise of Anhalt-Dessau (1709-1732), daughter of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau . The young princess died a month after the birth of their first child. On May 22, 1733, Victor Friedrich married in Potsdam for the second time, choosing Albertine of Brandenburg-Sweden (1712-1750), daughter of Margrave Albrecht Friedrich of Brandenburg- Sweden , as his wife. Two months after the death of the second wife, Prince Victor Friedrich concluded on November 13, 1750, a third, already morganatic marriage with Constance Schmidt. In 1752, Constanta gave birth to a daughter and received the noble title von Ber.
In her first marriage to Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, she was born:
- Sophia Louise (1732-1786), married to Count Frederick Solms-Barutsky (1725-1787).
In a second marriage with Princess Albertina of Brandenburg-Sweden, the following were born:
- Friedrich Albrecht (1735-1796), Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, married to Louise Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plyonska (1748-1769)
- Charlotte Wilhelmina (1737-1777), married to Prince Christian Gunther III of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1736-1794)
- Maria Carolina (1739)
- Frederick Augustus Sofia (1744-1827), married to Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734-1793)
- Christina Elizabeth Albertina (1746–1823), married to Prince Augustus II Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1738–1806)
In a third marriage with Konstanz Schmidt von Behr was born:
- Fryderyk Wilhelmina von Behr (1752-1820), married to Count Otto Heinrich Solms-Sonnenwald (1740-1814)
Literature
- August Benedict Michaelis: Einleitung zu einer volständigen geschichte der chur- und ... , Band 3, Lemgo 1785, S. 655 f.
- Gerhard Heine: Geschichte des Landes Anhalt und seiner Fürsten. Köthen 1866, S. 210
- Karl Prinz von Isenburg: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europäischen Staaten. 2 Bände, Marburg 1953
- Heinrich August Pierer: Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. Band 1, Altenburg 1857, S. 506