Alexander Münster


Count, later prince, Alexander Otto Hugo Wladimir Münster was a German aristocrat who was the owner of Maresfield Park, Maresfield, East Sussex.

Early life and family

Alexander Münster was born in Derneburg, Hanover, on 1 September 1858, the son of Prince Georg Herbert Münster, German ambassador in London 1873-1885 and subsequently Paris. His mother was his father's first wife, princess Aleksandra Mikhailovna Golitsyna.
In 1890 he married Lady Muriel Hay, daughter of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull, at St Andrews church in Wells Street, London, an event depicted on the front page of The Illustrated London News. The couple had sons Friedrich and Paul.
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Life in England

Münster acquired Maresfield Park in 1899 from Hervey Charles Pechell. In 1915, during the First World War, it was seized from him by the British government under the Trading With the Enemy laws as he was a German citizen. Records relating to Maresfield Park are held by the East Sussex Record Office.

Death and legacy

Münster died on 12 October 1922. Maresfield Park was sold in 1924.