Friedrich II (Anhalt)

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Duke Friedrich II of Anhalt
3-mark coin with the portrait of Frederick II from 1909

Friedrich II., Duke of Anhalt (born August 19, 1856 in Dessau , † April 21, 1918 at Ballenstedt Castle ) was a German sovereign from the Ascanians .

Life

Leopold Friedrich Eduard Karl Alexander was born as the second son of Duke Friedrich I in Dessau. From 1904 to 1918 he ruled as Duke of Anhalt .

Friedrich went on a study trip to Geneva, Bonn and Munich with his older brother Leopold von Anhalt . Both brothers then joined the Prussian Army as officers and remained in active service until 1883. After Leopold's untimely death in 1886, Friedrich became heir to the throne and familiarized himself with state administration.

On July 2, 1889, he married Princess Marie of Baden , sister of the later Chancellor Max von Baden, in Karlsruhe . Friedrich died in the last year of the First World War without, especially without male descendants. His successor was his brother Eduard , who ruled for a few months in 1918 and then also died shortly before the end of the monarchy.

He had been a corps bow bearer of the Corps Borussia Bonn since 1875 .

ancestors

Family tree
Pedigree of Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1856–1918)
Great grandparents

Hereditary Prince
Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau (1769–1814)
⚭ 1792
Princess Amalie of Hessen-Homburg (1774–1846)

Prince
Friedrich Ludwig Karl of Prussia (1773–1796)
⚭ 1793
Princess Friederike von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778–1841)

Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1763–1834)
⚭ 1785
Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769–1818)

Prince Karl (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) (1785–1853)
⚭ 1808
Mrs. Antoinette Murat (1793–1847)

Grandparents

Duke Leopold IV of Anhalt-Dessau (1794–1871)
⚭ 1818
Princess Friederike of Prussia (1796–1850)

Prince Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg (1804–1852)
⚭ 1835
Princess Amalie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1815–1841)

parents

Duke Friedrich I (Anhalt) (1831–1904)
⚭ 1854
Princess Antoinette of Saxony-Altenburg (1838–1908)

Friedrich II., Duke of Anhalt (1856–1918)

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Anhalt House. Over 900 years of total history with ancestral sequences . Deutsche Fürstenhäuser Issue 34, Börde-Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814458-1-7 , p. 29.
  • Ralf Regener: The year of the three ducal dukes in Anhalt, 1918. In: Saxony-Anhalt. Journal für Natur- und Heimatfreunde 25 (2015), H. 1, S. 19-21.
  • Ralf Regener: The fall of the Ascanians in Anhalt in 1918. Conditions, course and aftermath of the fall of a small German monarchy. Funk, Dessau-Roßlau 2013, ISBN 978-3-939197-79-9 .
  • Ralf Regener: A Forgotten Ruler - Biographical Studies on Duke Friedrich II of Anhalt (1856-1918). In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde 25 (2016), pp. 137–154.
  • Hermann Laundry : The Princely House of Anhalt , 1914.
  • Fritz Wecker: Our country fathers went where they stayed. Berlin 1928.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich II. (Anhalt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Regener: The fall of the Askanians in 1918 in Anhalt. Conditions, course and aftermath of the fall of a small German monarchy , Dessau-Roßlau 2013, pp. 50–55.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 494
predecessor Office successor
Friedrich I. Duke of Anhalt
1904–1918 		Eduard
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anhalt, Leopold Friedrich Eduard Karl Alexander Duke of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Anhalt
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1918
Place of death Ballenstedt