Claus Felix von Amsberg

Klaus Felix von Amsberg (German: Klaus Felix Friedrich Leopold Gabriel Archim Julius August von Amsberg; 1 September 1890 – 19 December 1953) was a member of the German Niederer Adel (lower nobility) and father of Prince Claus of the Netherlands, who was the father of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, thus making him the paternal grandfather of the current Dutch monarch.

Klaus Felix von Amsberg
Full name
German: Klaus Felix Friedrich Leopold Gabriel Archim Julius August von Amsberg
Born(1890-09-01)1 September 1890
Rehna, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Died19 December 1953(1953-12-19) (aged 63)
Jasebeck, West Germany
FamilyAmsberg
Spouse
Issue
Sigrid von Amsberg
Prince Claus of the Netherlands
Rixa von Amsberg
Margit von Amsberg
Barbara von Amsberg
Theda von Amsberg
Christina von Amsberg
FatherWilhelm von Amsberg
MotherElise von Vieregge

Early life

He was born at Rehna, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire (now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany), the first child of Wilhelm von Amsberg (1856–1929), by his marriage to Elise von Vieregg (1866–1951), member of an old aristocratic family.

In World War I he fought as a German officer in the Imperial German Army at the side of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa.

Claus was from 1917 the steward of an estate after a failed venture in Africa as a planter.

In 1928 he moved with his family to the Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania), where he remained during the outbreak of World War II as the manager of an Anglo-German tea and sisal plantation. He returned to Germany in 1947.

Marriage

Claus married on 4 September 1924 at Hitzacker to Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1902–1996), daughter of Baron George von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen and Baroness Gabriele von dem Bussche-Ippenburg.

Together they had six daughters and one son:

  • Sigrid von Amsberg (born 26 June 1925), married in 1952 to Ascan-Bernd Jencquel, had issue: Marion (b. 1953), Claus-Ascan (b. 1955) and Joachim (b. 1960).
  • Claus von Amsberg (6 September 1926 – 6 October 2002), married in 1966 to Beatrix of the Netherlands, had issue.
  • Rixa von Amsberg (18 November 1927 – 2010), married to Peter Ahrend
  • Margit von Amsberg (16 October 1930 – 1988), married in 1964 to Ernst Grubitz, had issue.
  • Barbara von Amsberg (born 16 October 1930), married in 1963 to Günther Haarhaus, had issue.
  • Theda von Amsberg (born 30 June 1939), married in 1966 to Baron Karl von Friesen, had issue.
  • Christina von Amsberg (born 20 January 1945), married in 1971 to Baron Hans Hubertus von der Recke, had issue.

He died, aged 63, in Jasebeck, West Germany, of a heart attack.

Ancestry

Notes and sources
  • thePeerage.com - Claus von Amsberg
  • Die Ahnen Claus Georg von Amsberg, Limburg a.d.Lahn, 1966, Euler, F. W., Reference: 2
  • Het huwelijk van H.K.H.Prinses Beatrix, Zaltbommel, 1966, Banning, Mr. Dr. Drs. J. P. D. van, Reference: 65
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