Daniel von Sachsen

Daniel Timo Prinz von Sachsen, Herzog zu Sachsen, Margrave of Meissen (born 23 June 1975), politician and entrepreneur, is the oldest son and heir of Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen,[1] a disputed Head of the deposed Royal House of Saxony.[2] Daniel was a candidate to become King of Poland.[3] He is a founder of the Wettin Forest Service[4] and the Wettiner Golf Cup.[5]

Daniel von Sachsen
Margrave of Meissen
Head of the House of Saxony (disputed)
Tenure29 March 2022 – present
PredecessorRüdiger
Heir apparentGero
Born (1975-06-23) 23 June 1975
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Spouse
Sandra Scherer
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(m. 2011)​
Issue
  • Anna-Catharina
  • Gero
Names
Daniel Timo Prinz von Sachsen, Herzog zu Sachsen
HouseWettin
FatherRüdiger, Margrave of Meissen
MotherAstrid Linke

Early life

Daniel was born in Duisburg, Germany. His mother was Astrid Linke (1949–1989). 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.

Career

Together with his father Ruediger, he founded in 2003, and still runs, the Wettinische Forstverwaltung (Wettin Forest Service).[4] He also organizes exhibitions at one of the family palaces, Moritzburg Castle (the acclaimed baroque "hunting lodge" for ancestor Frederick Augustus the Strong).

Since 2004 he has been a member of the municipal council of Moritzburg and the Kreis Meißen for the CDU party. 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.[3]


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.[6][7][8][9]

In 2011, he married Sandra Scherer, 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. He is a founder of the Wettiner Golf Cup.[5]

Although his father's position as Head of the Royal House of Saxony was under dispute, the royal title has effectively become part of Daniel's name (Prinz von Sachsen) and he is still the elder descendant of the last reigning monarch of Saxony, in royal male lineage (an analogous situation applies for the head of the Prussian noble family, the House of Hohenzollern[10]). 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. "Saxony". Almanach de Gotha (186th ed.). Almanach de Gotha. 2003. p. 342. ISBN 0-9532142-4-9.
  2. "Geschichte des Hauses Wettin von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart" (in German). Prince Albert of Saxony. 5 March 2003. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
  3. Pia Lucchesi. "Prinz Daniel hat Prioritäten: Lieber Gemeinderat als König von Polen". TAG24. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  4. "Was lesen und essen Sie gern, Herr Daniel von Sachsen?" (in German). Sächsische Zeitung. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
  5. "Interview mit Prinz Daniel von Sachsen". Disy Magazine (in German). Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  6. "Ballgeflüster". Stadt Magazin (in German). December 2000. p. 11.
  7. "Recent Visitors". PastForward: The Newsletter of the Shoah Foundation. Winter 2001. p. 6.
  8. Leona, Priscilla (January 19, 2020). "Question Reality Archives: January 2020: Christina Linhardt". LA Talk Radio.
  9. Holing, Mary (March 30, 2006). "1997 Alumna Christina Linstadt Mixes Cabaret, Opera and the Circus" (PDF). Daily Trojan. Vol. CXLVIII, no. 47.
  10. Berg, Nate (22 Nov 2019). "The Kaiser's Family Wants Its Stuff Back. Germany Isn't Sure They Deserve It". Foreign Policy.
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