Friedrich Heinrich Prince of Prussia

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Prince Friedrich Heinrich, 1895

Wilhelm Ernst Alexander Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht Prince of Prussia (born April 15, 1874 in Hanover , † November 13, 1940 in Seitenberg ) was a Prussian officer and a member of the House of Hohenzollern .

Life

Friedrich Heinrich was the eldest son of the Prussian Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1837–1906) and his wife Marie von Sachsen-Altenburg (1854–1898). He studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1895 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn , later he was an honorary member of the Vandalia Berlin fraternity . After graduating, he embarked on an officer career. As a major of the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland" he was in 1902 commanded to the Great General Staff . In 1904 he became commander of the 1st Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 2 and in this position was promoted to colonel on May 21, 1906 . Friedrich Heinrich was released from his position as regimental commander at the beginning of 1907, with a position à la suite . Because of his homosexuality, Friedrich Heinrich was expelled from the Prussian army, but at the beginning of the First World War he was allowed to become a soldier again (rank: private ). However, he was denied promotions.

At the end of 1906, at the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II , Friedrich Heinrich was elected Lord Master of the Order of St. John to succeed his deceased father . Because of his homosexual "debauchery", which remained unknown, he asked the emperor to refrain from his election shortly before his investiture scheduled for February 12, 1907 . Vain Friedrich von Prussia then became master master of the Order of St. John. As the publicist Maximilian Harden on 27 April 1907 in his magazine future the reasons for this change of leadership with the subordinate clause " because he is suffering from hereditary perversion of the sexual instinct made public," Friedrich Heinrich left of Prussia at the urgent advice of Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg Berlin. After staying in southern France and Egypt, he lived in seclusion on his Silesian estates. At the turn of the year 1909/10, he officially handed over the presidium of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt , which he took over after the death of his father, to his brother Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia .

According to the law of inheritance, the Kamenzer Land including the rule Seitenberg fell to him. He made a great contribution to the economic development of the southeastern part of County Glatz and was popular with the subjects because of his concern for the population. From his funds were u. a. the Protestant Holy Cross Church in Wölfelsgrund (1911) and the Church of the Resurrection in Seitenberg (1913) were built and deaconesses were brought in for the local nursing home. He gave the region's forestry a boost.

He was distinguished by his extraordinary height (he was over 2 m tall).

He was not married and died with no offspring. With his death, the line of Albrecht Hohenzollern on his father's side died out. Friedrich Heinrich died on November 13, 1940 in Seitenberg and was buried in the park mausoleum. After the death of Friedrich Heinrich the son of Prince Heinrich , the grandson of the Emperor and Prussian King Friedrich III inherited . , Waldemar (1889–1945) opened the castle in Kamenz according to the earlier agreement between the parties.

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 234.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 349.
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 235.
  • Peter Winzen : Freundesliebe at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Norderstedt 2010, pp. 73–74.
  • Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Man for man. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area. Berlin Lit-Verlag, 2 volumes, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , p. 1269.
  • Marek Gaworski: The castle in Kamenz. Architecture and owner. Groß Strehlitz 2009.
  • Landesmuseum Schlesien (Ed.): 900 years of Kamenz, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki: Traces of German and Polish history. Goerlitz 1996.
  • Hans-Peter Schmidt: Silesia and Prussia. Schweitzerhaus Verlag 2010, p. 110.

Web links

  • The island of the quail . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1959 ( online - May 6, 1959 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Heinrich Prince of Prussia at www.genealgics.org
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19/679
  3. ^ Regiments of the Prussian Army on www.preussenweb.de
  4. ↑ Holger Afflerbach : Kaiser Wilhelm II as Supreme Warlord in the First World War. Sources from the military environment of the emperor 1914–1918 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2005, p. 811, note 270.
  5. ↑ Marek Gaworski: The castle in Kamenz. Architecture and owner. Groß Strehlitz 2009, p. 104.
  6. ↑ Marek Gaworski, op.cit., P. 104.
  7. ^ Hans-Peter Schmidt: Silesia and Prussia. Schweitzerhaus Verlag 2010, p. 110.
  8. ↑ Marek Gaworski, op. Cit., Pp. 110-111.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich Heinrich Prince of Prussia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm Ernst Alexander Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht Prince of Prussia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and member of the House of Hohenzollern
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1940
Place of death Side mountain