Konrad, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
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Konrad, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Duke of Saxony (Given names: Johann Friedrich Konrad Carl Eduard Horst Arnold Matthias; ; born 14 April 1952) is a German businessman and the current head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Meiningen
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the younger son of Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen. However he is the only son by his fathers dynastic second wife Baroness Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (1914–1994). Although only the second son Prince Konrad was heir to the headship of the House of Saxe-Meiningen because his father's first marriage to commoner Margot Grössler was morganatic, as such his older half brother Prince Friedrich Ernst did not have dynastic rights.
Upon the death of his father on 4 October 1984, Prince Konrad succeeded to headship of the House of Saxe-Meiningen. Since becoming head of the house he is sometimes given the title Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1996 Prince Konrad began legal proceedings against the Russian government seeking the rehabilitation of property that had been expropriated after World War II
by the Soviet Union
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Prince Konrad is unmarried and has no issue. His closet male relative is his nephew Prince Constantin (b 1980), son of his half brother Prince Friedrich Ernst. Other male relatives are the Barons von Saalfeld, morganatic descendants of Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.
Professionally Prince Konrad is a qualified banker who has worked for various banks as an analyst. Since 1998 he has been an independent advisor specialising in the restructuring of companies, he has also spent time working in the air and car industries. Currently Prince Konrad is a partner in the Rudolf Döring Law Firm and since 2007 he has been Managing Director of GWP German Wind Power GmbH.
Saxe-Meiningen
The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine line of the Wettin dynasty, located in the southwest of the present-day German state of Thuringia....
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Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
Prince Konrad was born in Ziegenberg, HesseHesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
the younger son of Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen. However he is the only son by his fathers dynastic second wife Baroness Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (1914–1994). Although only the second son Prince Konrad was heir to the headship of the House of Saxe-Meiningen because his father's first marriage to commoner Margot Grössler was morganatic, as such his older half brother Prince Friedrich Ernst did not have dynastic rights.
Upon the death of his father on 4 October 1984, Prince Konrad succeeded to headship of the House of Saxe-Meiningen. Since becoming head of the house he is sometimes given the title Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1996 Prince Konrad began legal proceedings against the Russian government seeking the rehabilitation of property that had been expropriated after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
by the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
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Prince Konrad is unmarried and has no issue. His closet male relative is his nephew Prince Constantin (b 1980), son of his half brother Prince Friedrich Ernst. Other male relatives are the Barons von Saalfeld, morganatic descendants of Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.
Education and career
Prince Konrad studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and business management at University of Göttingen.Professionally Prince Konrad is a qualified banker who has worked for various banks as an analyst. Since 1998 he has been an independent advisor specialising in the restructuring of companies, he has also spent time working in the air and car industries. Currently Prince Konrad is a partner in the Rudolf Döring Law Firm and since 2007 he has been Managing Director of GWP German Wind Power GmbH.
Titles and styles
- His Highness Prince Konrad of Saxe-Meiningen, Duke of Saxony, Jülich, Cleves and Berg, of Engern and Westphalia, Prince of Saalfeld, Landgrave in Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, Count of Henneberg, Camburg, of the March and Ravensberg, Lord of Kranichfeld, Ravenstein etc.