Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

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Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born May 14, 1913 in Gotha ; † May 31, 1989 in Glücksburg Castle ) was a German officer . He was mayor of the city ​​of Glücksburg and from 1971 president of the German soldiers' association Kyffhäuser .

Ducal coat of arms Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Life

Friedrich Ferdinand, full name Friedrich Ferdinand Carl Ernst August Wilhelm Harold Casimir Nikolaus Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was born on May 14, 1913. As the son of Lieutenant General Albert zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his wife Ortrud, née Countess von Ysenburg and Büdingen, Friedrich Ferdinand lived in Gotha until 1918, and from 1919 in Glücksburg Castle. He attended the North Sea Pedagogy in Wyk auf Föhr (1926) and the Alte Gymnasium in Flensburg , where he graduated from high school in 1932. In order to become a corps student , he enrolled at the Georg August University of Law .

Reichswehr and Wehrmacht

In the Black Reichswehr since 1932 , he joined Danzig's Resident Army in March 1933 and in August 1933 he joined the Black Reichswehr's Jäger Battalion in Celle . On October 16, 1933, he became an officer candidate in the 14th Reiter Regiment in Ludwigslust . Since July 1, 1938, first lieutenant , at the beginning of the attack on Poland he was squadron chief of the 3rd (heavy motorized) Reconnaissance Division 31 in Poland , France and Russia . In September 1941, he came as a captain in the general staff at the Commanding General and Commander in Serbia , the Army Battalion HQ in Belgrade and (as squadron commander ) to November 1942 Air Force reconnaissance squadron.

In February 1943 he was used in Croatia as the first general staff officer of the 117th Jäger Division for general staff training in the 3rd Panzer Division near Charkow and on the Mius . From August 1943 to February 1944 he was at the War Academy in Hirschberg . In February 1944 he joined the armored forces and served as an Ia in the LXXXIV General Command . Army Corps in Brittany , from June 1944 as Major i. G. with the 7th Army on the invasion front in Le Mans and from September 1944 with the 116th Panzer Division on the Siegfried Line . After the regimental commander course in Bergen-Belsen (November 1944 to January 1945), he became the commander of the 40th Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the 17th Panzer Division in Silesia , in the Sudetenland and until the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht in Upper Silesia . On April 20, 1945 to Colonel i. G. promoted, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was able to escape in May 1945. He was released from US captivity in June 1945.

Civil fresh start

In 1946/47 he was a witness at the Nuremberg trials . At first he was the asset manager and executor of the last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Friedrich Franz IV. And Heinrich von Prussens, who died at the end of 1945 in Glückburg . After an apprenticeship and instruction in auditing, he joined the Bremen bank Martens & Weyhausen in 1947 , where he was chairman of the advisory board until 1974, then deputy and until 1979 a member of the supervisory board.

From 1960 he was (deputy) chairman of the supervisory board of Nordwestdeutsche Treuhand GmbH - business and tax consulting company in Flensburg .

In the Bundeswehr he had been a reserve colonel from 1959 .

corps

Friedrich Ferdinand was active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen from Michaelis 1932 to Michaelis 1933 . In 1935 he was a lieutenant philistriert . In 1959 he also became a member of the Corps Brandenburgia-Berlin to Cleveland / Ohio . Since 1963 an extraordinary member of the Corps Holsatia , he was awarded the Holsteiner Band on July 2, 1976 on an honorary basis. He had beaten seven games .

Monument preservation

In 1987, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg founded with Dr. med. Helmut Ries (1920–2009): The Glücksburg Historical Society (HGG) , which aims to keep alive the history of the castle, town and region of Glücksburg as well as Schleswig-Holstein's history.

family

Glücksburg Castle , the eponymous seat of the family branches

Friedrich Ferdinand zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg married Anastasia zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin on September 1, 1941 (born November 11, 1923 in Gelbensande; † January 25, 1979 in Hamburg ), the daughter of Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg and Alexandra from Hanover and Cumberland . The couple had the following four children:

  • Elisabeth Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born September 10, 1945)
⚭ 1975 Ferdinand Heinrich zu Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wachtersbach (1940–1989)
  • Irene Olga Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born October 11, 1946)
  • Margaretha Friederike Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born February 10, 1948)
  • Sibylla Ursula Ortrude of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born September 11, 1955)
⚭ 1980 Dieter Franz (born March 26, 1950)

Honorary positions

  • City representative of Glücksburg (1947–1982)
  • Mayor of Glücksburg (1963–1982)
  • Chairman of the Association of War Victims, Participants in Schleswig-Holstein
  • Chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein State Association of the German Soldiers' Association Kyffhäuser and the Association of German Soldiers
  • President of the Kyffhäuserbund (1971)

Awards

Military

Civil

Works

  • Entire house in Oldenburg. Castle archive, Glücksburg 1980.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louis Ferdinand Wentz: Corps Holsatia. List of members 1813–1988 Additions to Part 4 (1896–1936). 5th part (1937-1936). In: Festschrift des Corps Holsatia. Self-published, Kiel 1988, pp. 583-793.
  2. ^ Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia zu Göttingen 1840 to 1844. von der Groeben, Düsseldorf 2006.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 146/88.
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1981, 75/749
  5. ^ Website of the HGG.
  6. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 665.
personal data
SURNAME Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Friedrich Ferdinand to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Friedrich Ferdinand Karl August Wilhelm Harald Kasimir Nicola Prinz zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, mayor of Glücksburg
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1989
Place of death Glücksburg Castle