Friedrich of Prussia (1794–1863)
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig of Prussia (born October 30, 1794 in Berlin , † July 27, 1863 in Berlin) was royal Prussian cavalry general and division commander .
family
Prince Friedrich was the son of Prince Friedrich Ludwig Karl of Prussia (1773–1796) and Princess Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778–1841); he was a nephew of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
Life
From 1815 until his death (1863), Prince Friedrich was regiment chief of the Leib-Kürassier-Regiment " Großer Kurfürst " (Silesian) No. 1 .
After the wedding he lived in his palace in Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 72, until 1820 .
After the formation of the Rhine Province in the Prussian state in 1815, Prince Friedrich became commander of the 14th Division in Düsseldorf in 1820 and resided there in Jägerhof Palace , which he had two wings added to. He had his family follow him in 1821. The keeping of court in the following years at Jägerhof Palace strongly reminded the Düsseldorfers of earlier times as a royal seat and reconciled them with the fact that as Catholics they now had to belong to Protestant Prussia. Since both Prince Friedrich and his wife Princess Luise were extremely interested in art, and both were very good at drawing, Jägerhof Palace soon became the focus of social and cultural life in the city. Prince Friedrich was one of the founders of the Düsseldorf Art, Music and Theater Association and acted as its protector. He was supported in representative functions by his son, Prince Georg of Prussia , who was also musically inclined and whom the city honored in 1888 with Prinz-Georg-Straße , which runs towards the castle from the north .
Like his cousin, the later Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Friedrich was a romantic admirer of the Middle Ages and the castles on the Middle Rhine. In 1821 he acquired the ruins of Fatzberg Castle and was the first to have them converted into a summer residence according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Johann Claudius von Lassaulx . He gave the castle the new name Rheinstein . In 1837 he and his wife Luise erected the Alexius Cross at Mägdesprung in memory of their father, who died in 1834 . From 1838 to 1842 he also had the Schweizerhaus built - as a guest house for Rheinstein - and a chapel. He was later buried in the crypt of the chapel with his wife and son Georg. Because of their commitment to the culture and myths of the Rhine Province , Friedrich and his family are considered pioneers of Rhine romanticism .
In April 1842, Prince Friedrich in Biebrich near Mainz was one of the 21 aristocratic founding members of the Mainz Aristocracy Association , which set itself the goal of promoting German emigration to Texas .
In the course of the revolutionary turmoil (see also: March Revolution ), especially as a result of the Düsseldorf “horse droppings attack” on the king , Prince Friedrich was recalled to Berlin in 1848, while the political unrest in Düsseldorf continued. Frederick previously close relationship to the political center of the Rhine Province was by the revolutionary processes eventually disturbed so that it February 8, 1849 by Castle Rheinstein in a letter to the King James Metallwaren- and Militariaproduzenten Wilhelm Jaeger Dusseldorf as a "political Sodom and Gomorrah " described . He went on ungraciously: "This (...) should actually cease to be a town and sink into a village, although it would probably not acquire the good attitudes that thank God still live in the villages." Searched for the failed revolution Düsseldorf the “reparation”: In 1856, Prince Friedrich was made the city's first honorary citizen . His wife, who had a nervous disorder, had lived separately from him at Eller Castle near Düsseldorf since 1855, but Prince Friedrich spent the couple's birthday on October 30th with her in Eller .
The Texan city of Fredericksburg is named after him.
Marriage and offspring
He married on November 21, 1817 at Ballenstedt Castle ( Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt ) Wilhelmine Luise Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (born October 30, 1799 at Ballenstedt Castle; † December 9, 1882 at Eller Castle near Düsseldorf ), the daughter of Alexius Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767–1834) and his first wife, Princess Marie Friederike of Hessen-Kassel (1768–1839). Princess Luise was a very talented draftsman.
The couple had two sons:
- Prince Alexander of Prussia (1820-1896)
- Prince Georg of Prussia (1826-1902)
literature
- Ernst von Mirbach : Prince Friedrich of Prussia. A pioneer of romance on the Rhine. Böhlau-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-412-33305-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
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^ Laurenz Demps : Berlin-Wilhelmstrasse. A topography of Prussian-German power . 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, 2000, ISBN 386153228X .
After 1863 the palace was the “Palais of Princes Alexander and Georg”, later the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture . - ↑ Burkhard Beyer: A 19th century entrepreneur supporting the state: The Elberfeld metal goods manufacturer Wilhelm Jaeger and his relationships with Krupp in Essen ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 123 kB). Article in the portal bgv-wuppertal.de of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Wuppertal, p. 16, undated , accessed on February 8, 2013.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Prussia, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prussia, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | royal Prussian prince and general of the cavalry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1863 |
| Place of death | Berlin |