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4 unusual facts about Electorate of Hesse


Dautphetal

After its line also died out, Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Hesse-Darmstadt then fought over the territory, with the latter under its own landgrave eventually winning out, taking the so-called Hinterland in 1648.

Electorate of Hesse

Constitutional restrictions were intolerable to him; and the consequent friction with the Diet (lower house) was aggravated when in 1832 Hans Hassenpflug was placed at the head of the administration.

Garde du Corps

The Electorate of Hesse, the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Margraviate of Baden were also given a regiment of Garde du Corps.

Rudolf Schmitt

Schmitt was born in the small village Wippershain in the Hesse-Kassel as the second of eight siblings as son of a preacher.


Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst

Hohenlohe was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda, in the Electorate of Hesse, on 26 February 1823, the son of its ruler, Prince Franz Joseph zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Princess Caroline Friederike Constanze zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

James Curtis Booth

He visited Germany between 1833 and 1835, spending the year of 1833 in Professor Friedrich Wöhler's private laboratory in Hesse-Cassel, and then spending nine months in the laboratory of Professor Gustav Magnus in Berlin.

Nataly von Eschstruth

Nataly von Eschstruth (17 May 1860, Hofgeismar, Electorate of Hesse – 1 December 1939, Schwerin) was the pen name of the German novelist Nataly von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff.


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