Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
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| 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | |||||
The Prince in Stockholm at Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden's wedding celebrations, June 2010
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| Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | |||||
| Predecessor | Prince Gustav Albrecht | ||||
| Successor | Prince Gustav | ||||
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29 October 1934 Giessen, Hesse, Nazi Germany |
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| Died | 13 March 2017 (aged 82) Berleburg, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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| Burial | Forest Cemetery Sengelsberg, Berleburg | ||||
| Spouse | Princess Benedikte of Denmark (m. 1968) |
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Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Princess Alexandra Princess Nathalie |
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| House | House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | ||||
| Father | Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | ||||
| Mother | Margareta Fouché d'Otrante | ||||
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| Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin |
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Styles of Prince Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg |
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| Reference style | His Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin; 29 October 1934 – 13 March 2017) was the head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.
Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin was the eldest son of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, a highly decorated German army officer declared missing in 1944 yet only legally declared dead in 1969, and Margareta Fouché d'Otrante, a descendant of Napoleonic statesman Joseph Fouché. Richard was raised in Sweden with his maternal grandfather, the Duke of Otranto, at Elghammar Castle. He attended the boarding schools Viggbyholm and Sigtuna.
Having studied arboreal science at Munich University, Prince Richard obtained his forestry diploma at the University of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. He took post-graduate training as Forstreferendar, obtaining a degree as Assessor des Forstdienstes after passing the second-level examination at the North Rhine Westphalian State Forestry Service.
In July 2003, he underwent surgery for treatment of prostate cancer; previously, he had undergone treatment for skin cancer.
Prince Richard engaged in several conservation programmes, while responsible for managing his family's extensive lands in Germany. He launched a project to re-introduce European bison to the native continent on part of his 32,000 acre estate in North Rhine-Westphalia, credited as a success by Rewilding Europe as part of a larger effort to restore depleted animals across Europe.
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