Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince Rainer
Head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Tenure6 July 1934 – 7 January 1945
PredecessorPrince Peter August
SuccessorPrince Johannes Heinrich
Born(1900-05-04)4 May 1900
Pula, Austria-Hungary
Diedafter 7 January 1945(1945-01-07) (aged 44)
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Spouse
Johanna Károlyi de Károly-Patty et Vasvár
(m. 1930; div. 1935)
    Edith de Kózol
    (m. 1940)
    IssuePrince Johannes Heinrich
    Names
    Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga
    HouseSaxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
    FatherPrince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    MotherArchduchess Karoline Marie of Austria
    ReligionRoman Catholicism

    Prince Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in German: Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga, Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (4 May 1900, in Pola – after 7 January 1945). Cadet of a reigning German dynasty, Prince Rainer was the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry branch of the House of Wettin, heir in the female line of one of the oldest and wealthiest families of the Hungarian nobility.

    He disappeared during the siege of Budapest, and was believed to have been kidnapped by Russians or killed by retreating German troops in 1945.