Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

Born into the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, one of the oldest houses of German nobility, Botho was second son and youngest child of Prince Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1873-1960) and his de-morganatized wife, Marie Rühm, Baroness von Freusburg (1892-1975).https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00085359&tree=LEO

He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union and represented the party in the Bundestag from 1965 to 1980. He first gained a direct mandate as representative of Siegen-Wittgenstein and subsequently was elected from the land list.

He served as president of the German Red Cross between 1982 and 1994.

On 25 May in Bad Laasphe, he married Baroness Elisabeth Ilse Sonja Sylvia Karoline von Zedlitz und Leipe (1937-2020).https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00109981&tree=LEO

They had one son and two daughters:

• Georg Christian Sigmund Winfired Rolf, Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (b. 1960), married Benedikta von Wolffersdorff-Mellin (b. 1961) and had issue
• Friederike Maria Monika Jutta, Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (b. 1961), married Heinrich Frömbling (b. 1959) and has issue
• Katharina Viktoria Ellinor, Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (b. 1965), married Joachim Friedrich (1961) and has issue

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080214210910/http://newsticker.welt.de/index.php?channel=new&module=dpa&id=16767212 Welt Online: Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein obituary] (German) 28 January 2008

{{reflist|30em}}

{{Members of the 5th Bundestag}}{{Members of the 7th Bundestag}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Botho Prinz Zu}}

Category:1927 births

Category:2008 deaths

Category:Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

Category:German Red Cross personnel

{{Germany-CDU-politician-stub}}