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Even in his youth, George Moritz was interested in anthroposophy. In the early 1930s, his meeting with
Siegfried Pickert was a turning point in his life. His life after that point centered around Hamborn Castle, where beginning in 1931, he actively taught and promoted anthroposophy. In 1936 he rented
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In 1946, George Moritz returned to
Hamborn Castle, where he campaigned again for the employees and guests of the convalescent home and especially for those living in the youth boarding school. Among other things, he worked on the board of the local social charity until 1968. He lived modestly in a
202:, his first wife. At the time of his birth, his father, then the third-in-line to succeed the Ducal throne, lived with his wife in Prussia as a Captain and commander of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards in Potsdam. George Moritz and his three siblings were all born and lived there.
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who until 1941 was a supporter of the anthroposophy. However, eventually the
Gestapo stopped the research and George Moritz, along with the managing director of the institution Adolf Ammerschläger, was placed in protective custody for nine and a half months.
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Although the Nazi regime banned anthroposophy, the research with disabled children was allowed to continue in
Hamborn until June 1941, thanks to the mediation of George Moritz. He counted on the protection of
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When his father died in 1955, George Moritz became the head of the house of Saxe-Altenburg and nominal Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. He never married and his only brother and
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hospital. With his death the house of Saxe-Altenburg became extinct, although the family name continued due to the adoption in 1942 of Franz, Count
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on 13 May 1907, made Prince Ernest the
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he became in the new ruler of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg as Ernest II. Then, the whole family moved from
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Wilhelm Georg Moritz Ernst Albert
Frederick Karl Konstantin Eduard Max Erbprinz von Sachsen-Altenburg
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William George Moritz Ernest Albert
Frederick Charles Constantine Edward Maximilian
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George Moritz was the godfather of German journalist Rolf
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and nominal Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. He devoted much of his life to promote
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small apartment in the Castle, surrounded by an extensive library.
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Ancestors of Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg
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