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In 1550, after the death of his fa­ther, he in­her­ited An­halt-Zerbst along with his older brother Karl I and his younger brother Bern­hard VII. The death of his uncle George III with­out male heirs per­mit­ted him and his broth­ers, Karl I and Bern­hard VII, to in­herit An­halt-Plötzkau in 1553, while the death of his uncle Joachim I per­mit­ted ...

In Barby on 3 March 1560 Joachim Ernest mar­ried Agnes of Barby-Mühlin­gen (b. Barby, 23 June 1540 – d. Bern­burg, 27 No­vem­ber 1569), daugh­ter of Wolf­gang I, Count of Barby-Mühlin­gen (1502-1564) and his wife, Count­ess Agnes of Mans­feld(1511-1558). They had six chil­dren. In Stuttgart on 9 Jan­u­ary 1571 Joachim Ernest mar­ried for a sec­ond ...

In 1570 the death of his last sur­viv­ing brother, Bern­hard VII, left him as sole ruler of all the An­halt states, which were fi­nally uni­fied for the first time since their first par­ti­tion in 1252. Joachim Ernest made Dessauthe seat of his gov­ern­ment. Joachim Ernest was a typ­i­cal Re­nais­sance monarch who gen­er­ously sup­ported the arts a...

Prince Joachim Ernest died in Dessau on 6 De­cem­ber 1586. Since suc­ces­sion in the ter­ri­to­ries of An­halt was not gov­erned by the rules of pri­mo­gen­i­ture, Joachim Ernest's seven sons shared rule of the ter­ri­to­ries of An­halt until 1603, when the five sur­viv­ing sons di­vided their lands among them­selves.