Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1919-2006)
Friedrich Karl Viktor Stephan Christian Prince of Prussia (born March 13, 1919 in the Glienicke hunting lodge ; † June 19, 2006 in Mallorca ) was a member of the former Prussian royal family of the Hohenzollern family.
He came from the Prince Carl line of the House of Hohenzollern , which was based on the third son of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and his wife Queen Luise goes back. Prince Carl had acquired the Glienicke estate in 1824, which served his descendants as a residence until 1939. With Friedrich Karl's death this line of the House of Hohenzollern became extinct in the male line.
Life
Friedrich Karl was the younger of two children of Friedrich Sigismund Prince of Prussia (1891–1927), who died in a riding accident , a successful racing and tournament rider, and Princess Marie Luise zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1897–1938), a granddaughter of the Danish King Friedrich VIII. His sister Luise Viktoria (1917–2009) was married to Hans Reinhold (1917–2002) between 1942 and 1949 and has a son named Manfred.
The forestry graduate was first married since 1961 to the English noblewoman Lady Hermione Stuart (1925-1969), the eldest daughter of the 19th Earl of Moray and sister of Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray , who also died after a riding accident . The second marriage on February 11, 1974 with Adelheid von Bockum called Dolfss (born September 16, 1943) was divorced in 1978.
Friedrich Karl was the last owner (as a minor) of the Glienicke palace complex before part of it passed to the city of Berlin in 1935 and the rest of the city of Berlin acquired in 1939. In 1984 he filed a lawsuit for damages against the State of Berlin, as the sale at the time apparently only came about under threat of expropriation by the National Socialists. The procedure was decided in 1987 in favor of the State of Berlin; a requested revision was rejected in 1989.
Friedrich Karl von Prussia died childless on June 19, 2006 at the age of 87 on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca , where he had been living in seclusion for the past few years. As the last of his family branch, he was buried in the Hohenzollern hereditary burial site in the Glienicke Palace Park, which is part of the world cultural heritage .
See also
- Friedrich Karl von Prussia (1828–1885) , his great-grandfather of the same name
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| SURNAME | Prussia, Friedrich Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prussia, Friedrich Karl Viktor Stefan Christian Prince von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aristocratic descendant, member of the former Prussian royal family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glienicke hunting lodge |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 2006 |
| Place of death | Mallorca |