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Ernest Louis, grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1892 until his abdication in 1918, at the end of World War I. His father was the grand duke Louis IV, whom he succeeded on March 13, 1892, and his mother was Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria of England and the prince consort, Albert.

Grand Duke Ludwig IV died of a heart attack in the New Palace in Darmstadt on 13 March 1892. He was succeeded by his son, Ernest Louis. The Equestrian statue of Ludwig IV on the Friedensplatz in Darmstadt.

Ernest Louis remarried in Darmstadt, on 2 February 1905, to Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (17 September 1871 – 16 November 1937). This marriage proved harmonious and happy. The couple had two sons: Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906–1937).

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Ernest Louis ( German: Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm; 25 November 1868 – 9 October 1937) was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918. Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine Ernest Louis Children Princess Elisabeth Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus Prince Louis Grandchildren Prince Ludwig Prince Alexander

Following the abdication of the last grand duke, Ernest Louis, in 1918, Hesse became a republic and one of the constituent states of the Weimar Republic of postwar Germany. In 1945 the territory east of the Rhine was in the U.S. occupation zone and became part of the Land of Greater Hesse (later called simply Hessen), while the rest became part ...

Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.

Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine; Reign: 13 June 1877 – 13 March 1892: Predecessor: Louis III: Successor: Ernest Louis