Alexander von der Mark

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Count Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz Alexander von der Mark ("the Anderchen") (born January 4, 1779 ; † August 1, 1787 in Berlin ) was an illegitimate son of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and his lover, Countess Wilhelmine von Lichtenau .

After his father's accession to the throne in 1786, he and his sister Marianne von der Mark were raised to the nobility with the count's title of the house of Mark, which died out in 1609 and was inherited by the Prussian Hohenzollern family . It cannot be completely ruled out that the half-brother of the future King Friedrich Wilhelm III. was poisoned the following year. The latter had the Countess Lichtenau arrested and expropriated immediately after her father's death in 1797.

Alexander was immortalized by the tomb created by Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1788/89 , which was originally installed in the Dorotheenstädtische Church in Berlin and can now be seen in the Berlin Alte Nationalgalerie as a permanent loan from the Dorotheenstädtische parish.

  • Tomb of Count Alexander von der Mark

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  • Schadow: tomb of the count

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SURNAME Alexander von der Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION illegitimate son of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1779
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1787
Place of death Berlin