Prince Daniel of Saxony

Prince Daniel Timo of Saxony, Duke of Saxony (German: Daniel Timo Prinz von Sachsen, Herzog zu Sachsen; born 23 June 1975), politician and entrepreneur, is the oldest son of Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen,[2] a disputed Head of the deposed Royal House of Saxony.[3] Prince Daniel was a candidate to become King of Poland.[4] He is a founder of the Wettin Forest Service[5] and the Wettiner Golf Cup.[6] He appears in "Biographical Summaries of Notable People".[7]

Prince Daniel Timo[1]
Born (1975-06-23) 23 June 1975
Duisburg, West Germany
Spouse
Sandra Scherer
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(m. 2011)​
IssuePrincess Anna-Catharina
Prince Gero
HouseWettin
FatherRüdiger, Margrave of Meissen
MotherAstrid Linke

Early life

Prince Daniel was born in Duisburg, Germany. His mother was Astrid Linke (1949–1989)[8] a commoner who committed suicide.[9] He was raised in West Germany (Stein-Wingert), not returning to Dresden until well after the Berlin Wall came down. After secondary school, he joined the army, then studied business economics at RWTH Aachen University, and also trained in forestry.[8]

Career

Together with his father Prince Ruediger, he founded in 2003, and still runs, the Wettinische Forstverwaltung (Wettin Forest Service).[5] He also organizes exhibitions at one of the family palaces, Moritzburg Castle (the acclaimed baroque "hunting lodge" for ancestor Frederick Augustus the Strong).[8]

Since 2004 he has been a member of the municipal council of Moritzburg and the Kreis Meißen for the CDU party.[8] In 2017, he removed himself as a candidate to become King of Poland, stating that, as a Democrat, he is not interested in being a non-elected monarch.[4]

Family and personal life

In 2001-2002, he was engaged to singer Christina Linhardt. Two songs on her CD Circus Sanctuary allude to their relationship.[8]

In 2011 he married Sandra Scherer,[10] a scientist. They had a daughter Anna-Catharina Sophie, born 2013. and a son Gero Friedrich Johann born 2015.

Daniel's hobbies include hunting, culture, art, new media, computers, Internet (he built the website for his family), history of Saxony, politics and golf.[8] He is a founder of the Wettiner Golf Cup.[6]

Although his father's position as Head of the Royal House of Saxony is under dispute, the royal title has effectively become part of Daniel's name; and as a descendant of the last reigning prince of Saxony, he is still of royal lineage. (An analogous situation applies for the head of the Prussian noble family, the House of Hohenzollern.[11]) The Royal House of Saxony, in the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin, is a deposed dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors and kings that once ruled territories in the present-day German state of Saxony, and one of the oldest dynasties in Europe.

Ancestry

References
  1. Infobox data from "DANIEL PRINZ VON SACHSEN". www.nettyroyal.nl. Archived from the original on 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2010-10-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. "Saxony". Almanach de Gotha (186th ed.). Almanach de Gotha. 2003. p. 342. ISBN 0-9532142-4-9.
  3. "Geschichte des Hauses Wettin von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart" (in German). Prince Albert of Saxony. 5 March 2003. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  4. Aanmoen, Oskar (27 Aug 2017). "Prince Daniel of Saxony: "I do not want to become King of Poland"". European Royals.
  5. "Was lesen und essen Sie gern, Herr Daniel von Sachsen?" (in German). Sächsische Zeitung. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
  6. "Interview mit Prinz Daniel von Sachsen" (in German). Disy Magazine. Retrieved 2010-10-21. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. "Prince Daniel of Saxony". Biographical Summaries of Notable People.
  8. "DANIEL PRINZ VON SACHSEN". www.nettyroyal.nl. Archived from the original on 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2010-10-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
  9. "Descendants of Maria Theresa of Austria". Retrieved 15 July 2009.
  10. Helfricht, Jurgen (31 July 2011). "Traumhochzeit auf Schloss Moritzburg Prinz von Sachsen sagt JA!" (in German). Bild. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  11. Berg, Nate (22 Nov 2019). "The Kaiser's Family Wants Its Stuff Back. Germany Isn't Sure They Deserve It". Foreign Policy (FP).
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