Upon their father's death in 1897, his elder brother, Prince Christian, became the 5th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and 2nd Duke of Ujest, and inheriting the family estates. After his brother's death in Somogyszob in 1926 without issue, Prince Hans became the 6th Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and 3rd Duke of Ujust and inherited the family estates including Sławięcice Palace (in Upper Silesia), Oppurg Castle (in Thuringia), Neuenstein Castle (in Neuenstein), Öhringen Castle (in Öhringen), and the Hohenlohe Hunting Lodge (in Javorina, Slovakia which was sold to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1935).[4] He was the last Hohenlohe to own Sławięcice Palace before they had to abandon it during World War II for their summer palace in Oppurg and later to Neuenstein in Hohenlohe.[5] The palace were severely damaged by the Red Army in January 1945 and the remaining structure burned down in 1948.[6]
Personal life
On 29 April 1889, Prince Hans was married in Bamberg to his first cousin, Princess Gertrude Auguste Mathilde Olga zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (Heidelberg, 3 April 1862 – Breslau, 21 April 1935), a daughter of his father's younger brother Prince Felix Eugen Wilhelm zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Princess Alexandrine von Hanau-Hořowitz, Countess of Schaumburg (a daughter of Gertrude von Hanau and Frederick William, Elector of Hesse).[7] They were the parents of:[8]
Hugo Felix August zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1890–1962), who married Ursula von Zedlitz, a daughter of Konstantin von Zedlitz, in 1928. They divorced in 1930 and he married Valerie von Carstanjen, a daughter of Wilhelm Adolf Robert von Carstanjen, in 1930. They divorced in 1946 and he married Erika Himmelein, daughter of Friedrich Konrad Himmelein, in 1948.[9]
Alexandrine Marie Margarethe zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1891–1959),[8] who died unmarried.[9]
Friedrich Karl Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1892–1965), a twin who married Nina Chischina, daughter of Ilja Chischine, the former wife of his cousin, Prince Waldemar Hugo Hermann Maximilian zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen, in 1948.[8]
Dorothea zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1892–1931)[8] a twin who died unmarried.[9]
