August Ferdinand of Prussia

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Ferdinand Prince of Prussia
Ferdinand of Prussia

August Ferdinand of Prussia (born May 23, 1730 in the City Palace in Berlin ; † May 2, 1813 in Berlin) was a Prussian prince, general of the infantry and master of the Order of St. John .

Life

Ferdinand was the youngest son of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (1688–1740) from his marriage to Sophie Dorothea of ​​Hanover (1687–1757), daughter of King George I of Great Britain and thus a younger brother of Frederick the Great . At the age of five, Ferdinand became a member of the "Crown Prince" infantry regiment of the Prussian Army . In 1740, his brother appointed him chief of the newly formed Infantry Regiment No. 34 .

In 1756 he became major general and accompanied the king to Saxony and Bohemia in October and again took part in the campaign in Bohemia and Silesia in 1757 , where he fought in the battles near Breslau and Leuthen . In 1758 he felt compelled to leave the army as a general of the infantry due to increasing sickness.

On September 12, 1763 Ferdinand became the master of Mr. bailiwick elected Brandenburg of St. John. He held this position until the Ballei was dissolved in 1811. When Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated the Royal Prussian Order of St. John on May 23, 1812 , he appointed Ferdinand its master master. In addition, like all the Hohenzollern princes , Ferdinand was a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle .

Ferdinand is the namesake of the Ferdinand von Prussia Foundation, founded in 1871.

But he remained in the memory of posterity through the construction of his Bellevue Palace in Berlin's Tiergarten , which he had built from 1785 to 1786 according to plans by Michael Philipp Boumann . His name is on the front of the Rheinsberg obelisk .

progeny

Ferdinand married Princess Luise (1738–1820), daughter of Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt , on September 27, 1755 , with whom he had the following descendants:

  • Friederike (1761–1773)
  • Friedrich (1769–1773)
  • Luise (1770-1836)
⚭ 1796 Prince Anton Radziwiłł (1775–1833)

Official and residences

  • Gerbstedt manor : acquired by the father for Ferdinand in 1738, sold again in 1810
  • Palais Marschall (Wilhelmstrasse 78 in Berlin): acquired in 1761, sold again in 1763
  • Johanniterordenspalais (Wilhelmplatz 9 in Berlin): official seat from 1762 to 1811
  • Friedrichsfelde Palace near Berlin: acquired in 1762 and lived in until it was sold in 1785
  • Bellevue Palace in the Tiergarten near Berlin: built as a princely pleasure palace from 1785 and inhabited from 1786 to 1813
  • Rheinsberg Castle : owned from 1802 to 1813 after the death of his brother Prince Heinrich
  • Palais at Wilhelmstrasse 65 in Berlin: private residence from 1806 to 1813

literature

  • Johann Gottfried Dienemann and Johann Erdmann Hasse: News from the Order of St. John, in particular from its masterclass in the Mark, Saxony, Pomerania and Wendland, as well as from the election and investiture of the current master, Prince August Ferdinand in Prussia Königl. Your Highness, together with a description of the accolades held in the years 1736, 1737, 1762 and 1764, and with attached coats of arms and ancestral tables of their knights . Berlin 1767 ( e-copy )
  • Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great. Avenarius & Mendelssohn, Leipzig 1853, p. 228 ff.
  • Ernst Graf zur Lippe-WeißenfeldFerdinand, Prince of Prussia . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 709.
  • Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon. Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition, special production. Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 , p. 319.
  • Anna Eunike Röhrig : Family Prussia. The siblings of Frederick the Great. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2008, ISBN 978-3-89772-145-6 , pp. 134-144.

Web links

Commons : August Ferdinand von Preußen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld : History of the Knightly Order of St. Johannis from Spital zu Jerusalem. Berlin 1859, p. 755 ff.
  2. ^ Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg, Die Grafschaft Ruppin, Rheinsberg
  3. ^ Berlin-Archiv , Archiv-Verlag, Braunschweig, 1980-90, collective sheet 05030
predecessor Office successor
Karl Prince of Prussia Master of the Balley Brandenburg of the Order of St. John
1762 - 1811
Carl of Prussia
after restoration in 1852