After the death of her husband, Elector August of Saxony acted as guardian of her children.

This policy was meant to isolate the children from their mother's political and religious influence.

[2] Its Renaissance portal is decorated with an alliance coat of arms of Dorothea Susanne and her husband.

In 1581, the widowed Duchess turned to write to her brothers, Louis VI and John Casimir to induce the guardian of her eldest son, Elector August in Dresden, to promote the marry her eldest son with a Württemberg princess.

[3] Dorothea Susanne died in 1592 and was buried in the church of St. Peter und Paul in Weimar;[citation needed] her motto was I Know That My Redeemer Lives.