Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein[1] (His Serene Highness Prince Botho ofSayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein) (16 February 1927 inEisenach – 27 January 2008 inSalzburg) was a German politician.
Born into theHouse of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, one of the oldest houses ofGerman nobility, Botho was second son and youngest child of Prince Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann zuSayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1873-1960) and hisde-morganatized wife, Marie Rühm, Baroness von Freusburg (1892-1975).
He was a member of theChristian Democratic Union and represented the party in theBundestag from 1965 to 1980. He first gained a direct mandate as representative ofSiegen-Wittgenstein and subsequently was elected from the land list.
He served as president of theGerman Red Cross between 1982 and 1994.
On 25 May inBad Laasphe, he married Baroness Elisabeth Ilse Sonja Sylvia Karoline von Zedlitz und Leipe (1937-2020).
They had one son and two daughters:
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