Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
![]() Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein[1] (His Serene Highness Prince Botho of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein) (16 February 1927 in Eisenach – 27 January 2008 in Salzburg) was a German politician. Early life and ancestryBorn 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).[2] CareerHe 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. Private lifeOn 25 May in Bad Laasphe, he married Baroness Elisabeth Ilse Sonja Sylvia Karoline von Zedlitz und Leipe (1937-2020).[3] They had one son and two daughters:
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