Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse (1893-1916)
Friedrich Wilhelm Sigismund Viktor Prince of Hesse (born November 23, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 15, 1916 in Cara Omer ) was a grandson of Emperor Friedrich III. and a prince from the Hessen-Kassel line of the House of Hessen .
family
Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen was born as the first son of Prince Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel (1868–1940) and Hessen-Rumpenheim and Princess Margarethe of Prussia (1872–1954). His maternal great-grandmother was Queen Victoria of Great Britain , his mother was the youngest sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He had five younger siblings:
- Maximilian (1894–1914), killed in Belgium ,
- Philipp (1896–1980),
- Wolfgang (1896–1989),
- Richard (1901–1969),
- Christoph (1901–1943), killed in Italy .
Life
He first attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and then the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Potsdam . He then attended the main cadet school in Berlin-Lichterfelde together with his brother Max from 1909 to 1912 . He then continued his military training as an ensign at the Hanover War School. He then served as a lieutenant in the Thuringian Uhlan Regiment No. 6 . At the beginning of the First World War he was deployed with his regiment on the Western Front and entered France with it. At Laval he was badly wounded by a shot. The bullet injured one arm and both lungs. After recovering, he was transferred to a division staff on the Eastern Front. In 1915 he was wounded again there. Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse fell at Cara Omer in Romania . His brother Wolfgang brought the coffin home. Friedrich Wilhelm was buried in Kronberg Castle.
ancestors
| Wilhelm of Hesse (1787–1867) | |||||||||||||
| Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse (1820-1884) | |||||||||||||
| Louise Charlotte of Denmark (1789–1864) | |||||||||||||
| Friedrich Karl of Hesse (1868–1940) | |||||||||||||
| Carl of Prussia (1801-1883) | |||||||||||||
| Anna of Prussia (1836–1918) | |||||||||||||
| Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877) | |||||||||||||
| Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse | |||||||||||||
| Kaiser Wilhelm I (1797–1888) | |||||||||||||
| Emperor Friedrich III. (1831-1888) | |||||||||||||
| Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890) | |||||||||||||
| Margarethe of Prussia (1872–1954) | |||||||||||||
| Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861) | |||||||||||||
| Victoria of Great Britain (1840-1901) | |||||||||||||
| Victoria Queen of Great Britain (1819–1901) | |||||||||||||
literature
- Jonathan Petropoulos : Royals and the Reich. The Princes of Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0-19-920377-6 limited preview in Google Book Search
- Eckhart G. Franz : The House of Hesse. A European family. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018919-0 .
- Eckhart G. Franz: Haus Hessen: biographical lexicon , Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt (Verlag) 2012, ISBN 978-3-88443-411-6 , p. 182, entry HK 88
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On September 15, a great victory was won over the allies Romanians and Russians at Kara-Omer . University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ↑ Jonathan Petropoulos: Royals and the Reich. The Princes of Hessen in Nazi Germany . Oxford University Press 2006, p. 44.
- ↑ Jonathan Petropoulos, op.cit., P. 44.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hessen, Friedrich Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedrich Wilhelm of Hessen-Kassel; Friedrich Wilhelm of Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Son of Prince Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Rumpenheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1916 |
| Place of death | Cara Omer |