Background
Prince Günther XLIII was son of Prince Christian William I (1647-1721) and his wife Princess Antonie Sybille (1641-1684), a daughter of Count Albert Fredrick I of Barby-Mühlingen.
Prince Günther XLIII was son of Prince Christian William I (1647-1721) and his wife Princess Antonie Sybille (1641-1684), a daughter of Count Albert Fredrick I of Barby-Mühlingen.
He took up government during his father"s the lifetime, and in 1720 and continued as a fair, gentle and pious regent until his death. He made an end to foreign sovereignty over various parts of his principality, thereby increasing its prestige. He built new church in Jechaburg and a Princely House in Sondershausen.
His hobby was hunting, and he built a hunting lodge named zum Possen on the Hainleite near Sondershausen.
After he died childless in 1740, his half-brother Henry XXXV inherited the principality.