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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = August
| title        = Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen
| image        = August zu Hohenloehe Oehringen Uniform.jpg
| caption      = August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
| birth_name   =
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1784|11|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Breslau]], [[Silesia]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1853|02|15|1784|11|24|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Kędzierzyn-Koźle|Slawentzitz]], [[Upper Silesia]]
| noble family = [[House of Hohenlohe|House of Hohenlohe-Öhringen]]
| father       = [[Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]]
| mother       = Countess Amalie von Hoym
| spouse       = Duchess Louise of Württemberg<br>(m. 1811, died 1851)
| issue        = Prince Friedrich<br>Mathilde, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen<br>[[Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen|Hugo, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen]]<br>Prince Felix
}}
'''Frederick ''August'' Charles, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen'''  (27 November 1784 – 15 February 1853) was a German general of the [[Napoleonic Wars]] and nobleman of the house of [[Hohenlohe]].
==Early life==
August was born on 27 November 1784 in [[Breslau]]. His parents were [[Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]] (1748–1818) and Countess Maria Amalie von Hoym and his younger brother was [[Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]] who briefly served as [[Minister-President of Prussia]] in 1862 and was succeeded by [[Otto von Bismarck]].<ref name="Bismarck1899">{{cite book |last1=von) |first1=Otto Bismarck (Fürst |title=Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences of Otto, Prince Von Bismarck |date=1899 |publisher=Harper & brothers |pages=275, 230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPINAQAAMAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
His father was the eldest son of Heinrich August, 1st Prince of [[Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]] and Wilhelmine Eleonora von [[Hohenlohe-Öhringen]].<ref name="Wilson2002">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Peter |title=German Armies: War and German Society, 1648-1806 |date=1 November 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-37053-4 |pages=309, 310, 322 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_WNAgAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref> His nephew was [[Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]]. His maternal grandparents were Count Julius Gebhard von Hoym and Christiane Charlotte Sophie von Dieskau.<ref name="Gellert2015">{{cite book |last1=Gellert |first1=Christian F. |title=1756–1759 |date=10 March 2015 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-086417-5 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXmmDAAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="Kraus2001">{{cite book |last1=Kraus |first1=Gerlinde |title=Christiane Fürstin von der Osten-Sacken: eine frühkapitalistische Unternehmerin und ihre Erben während der Frühindustrialisierung im 18./19. Jahrhundert |date=2001 |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |isbn=978-3-515-07721-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UrLlIJ-AVYC |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
==Career==
He was a German general during the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref name="Wendebourg2016"/>
Upon his parents' marriage in 1782, his father acquired the estates of [[Sławięcice Palace (Schloss Slawentzitz)|Slawentzitz]], [[Ujazd, Opole Voivodeship|Ujest]] and [[Gmina Rudziniec|Bitschin]] in Silesia, an area of 108 square miles.<ref name="Wendebourg2016">{{cite book |last1=Wendebourg |first1=Dorothea |title=Jahrbuch für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte: 93/94 (2014/2015) |date=1 November 2016 |publisher=Evangelische Verlagsanstalt |isbn=978-3-374-04451-1 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_S4jEAAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref> In August 1806 his family's lands were assigned by the [[German Mediatisation]] process to the new [[Kingdom of Württemberg]].{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Prince August's son, Prince Hugo inherited these lands, besides his Franconian properties [[Öhringen]] and [[Neuenstein, Baden-Württemberg|Neuenstein]], and established [[Calamine (mineral)|calamine]] mines. He also founded one of the largest [[zinc smelting]] plants in the world. The Prussian King, [[William I, German Emperor|William I]], later German Emperor, created him ''Duke of Ujest'' upon his coronation in 1861.<ref name="Dodsley1898">{{cite book |title=Annual Register |date=1898 |publisher=J. Dodsley. |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGldAAAAIAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>}} In 1820–35 he was elected chairman of the "Kammer der Standesherren" (Upper House) of the [[Estates of Württemberg]].<ref name="Wendebourg2016"/>
==Personal life==
[[File:Luise of Württemberg.jpg|thumb|right|His wife, Louise of Württemberg]]
On 28 September 1811, he married Louise of Württemberg  (4 June 1789 – 16 June 1851), a member of the [[List of rulers of Württemberg|Württemberg royal family]]. Luise was a daughter of [[Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (1764–1834)|Princess Louise]] of [[Stolberg-Gedern]] and [[Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822)|Duke Eugen of Württemberg]] (the brother of [[Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)|Empress Maria Feodorovna]], consort of [[Paul I of Russia]]) and a sister of [[Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857)|Duke Eugen of Württemberg]].<ref name="Gotha2004">{{cite book |title=Almanach de Gotha: Annual Genealogical Reference |date=2004 |publisher=[[Almanach de Gotha]] |isbn=978-0-9532142-5-9 |pages=528–530 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJ4SAQAAIAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref> They were the parents of:<ref name="Verlag1914">{{cite book |title=Wer ist's? |date=1914 |publisher=Verlag Herrmann Degener. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zbTAAAAMAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
* Prince ''Friedrich'' Ludwig Eugen Carl Adalbert Emil August of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (Öhringen, 12 August 1812 – Slawentzitz, 10 December 1892), who renounced his rights as firstborn son in 1842; he married Mathilde, Baroness von Brauneck (1821–1896) in 1844.<ref name="Alberti1898">{{cite book |last1=von Alberti |first1=Otto |author-link=Otto von Alberti|title=Württembergisches adels- und wappenbuch: Im auftrag des Württembergischen altertumsvereins verfasst |date=1898 |publisher=W. Kohlhammer |page=83 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4v5KAAAAYAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="Hefner1860">{{cite book |last1=von Hefner |first1=Otto Titan |title=Stammbuch des blühenden und abgestorbenen Adels in Deutschland |date=1860 |publisher=Manz |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4LhEAQAAMAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
* Princess Friederike ''Mathilde'' of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (Öhringen, 3 July 1814 – [[Mirabell Palace|Schloss Mirabell]] in [[Salzburg]], 3 June 1888), who married [[Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]] in 1835.<ref name="Friedrichs2016">{{cite book |last1=Friedrichs |first1=Elisabeth |title=Die deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Repertorien zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, Band 9 |date=12 December 2016 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |isbn=978-3-476-03141-9 |page=284 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwe1DQAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="Brockhaus1839">{{cite book |title=Conversations-Lexikon der Gegenwart: in vier Bänden. F bis J. 2 |date=1839 |publisher=Brockhaus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wghCAAAAcAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="Gesellschaft1965">{{cite book |title=Schriften der Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte |date=1965 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZ04AAAAIAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen|Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl ''Hugo'', Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest]] ([[Stuttgart]], 27 May 1816 – Slawentzitz, 23 August 1897), who married Princess Pauline von Fürstenberg (1829–1900), youngest child of [[Amalie of Baden]] and [[Charles Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg]], in 1847.<ref name="Gotha2004"/><ref name="Feurstein2015">{{cite book |last1=Feurstein |first1=Heinrich |title=Die Beziehungen des Hauses Fürstenberg zur Residenz- und Patronatspfarrei Donaueschingen von 1488 bis heute |date=19 September 2015 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7340-0771-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jSiTCgAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
* Prince ''Felix'' Eugen Wilhelm Ludwig Albrecht Karl of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (Öhringen, 1 March 1818 – [[Asnières-sur-Seine|Asnières]], 8 September 1900), who married Princess Alexandrine von Hanau, [[Count of Schaumburg|Countess of Schaumburg]] (1830–1871),<ref name="McNaughton1973">{{cite book |last1=McNaughton |first1=Arnold |title=The Book of Kings: The royal houses |date=1973 |publisher=Garnstone Press |isbn=978-0-900391-19-4 |pages=119, 482–484 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F11mAAAAMAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref> a daughter of [[Gertrude von Hanau]] and [[Frederick William, Elector of Hesse]], in 1851.<ref name="Engelmann1984">{{cite book |last1=Engelmann |first1=Bernt |title=Germany Without Jews |date=1984 |publisher=[[Bantam Books]] |isbn=978-0-553-24445-8 |page=85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-RtAAAAMAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
Prince August died on 15 February 1853 at [[Kędzierzyn-Koźle|Slawentzitz]] Castle.<ref name="NYE1879">{{cite book |title=The New York Evening Express Almanac: Hand-book of Politics, Statesman's Manual, and Statistical Register, for Bankers, Merchants and Agriculturists |date=1879 |publisher=New York Evening Express |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVs9AAAAYAAJ |access-date=26 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
===Descendants===
Through his son Hugo, he was the grandfather of Princess Margarethe of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1865–1940), who was the second wife of Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, Count of Hohenau (himself a morganatic son of [[Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872)|Prince Albert of Prussia]]).<ref name="Gotha2004"/>
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1870er).jpg|His second son, and heir, [[Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen|Hugo]]
1841 painting of Mathilde, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.jpg|Portrait of his daughter, Mathilde, Princess of [[Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]], 1841
Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Felix, Prinz zu (1818-1900), gemalt von Stirnbrand, lithographiert von W. Santer, Druck des lithographischen Instituts von W. Santer in Breslau.jpg|His youngest son, Felix
</gallery>
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen'''
|2= 2. [[Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]]
|3= 3. Countess Amalie of Hoym
|4= 4. Heinrich August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
|5= 5. 	Countess Wilhelmine Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Öhringen
|6= 6. Count Julius Gebhard of Hoym
|7= 7. Christiane Charlotte of Dieskau
|8= 8. Christian Kraft, Count of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
|9= 9. Countess Maria Katharina of Hohenlohe-Pfedelbach
|10= 10. [[Johann Friedrich II of Hohenlohe-Öhringen]]
|11= 11. Landgravine Dorothea Sophie of Hessen-Darmstadt
|12= 12. Count Ludwig Gerhard of Hoym
|13= 13. Countess Rahel Louise of Werthern
|14= 14. Johann Adolph of Dieskau
|15= 15. Christiane Dorothea Magdalene of Ponickau
}}
==References==
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'''Sources'''
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