Friedrich Wilhelm von Thurn and Taxis

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Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Thurn und Taxis (born January 29, 1805 in Regensburg , † September 7, 1825 in Dischingen-Trugenhofen ) was a Prussian soldier and officer.

With the death of his grandfather Karl Anselm of Thurn and Taxis on 13 November 1805 he moved up to second place in the royal succession in the house of Thurn and Taxis and thus to the media coverage in the Imperial Principality Buchau , as well as in the title of prince of Krotoszyn, and Inheritance of the Imperial Heir General Postmaster including virile vote , or since 1808 of the Crown Postmaster in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Coat of arms of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis

Origin and family

He was the seventh child of Prince Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis , Prince of the Imperial Principality of Buchau and von Krotoszyn, and his wife Therese Mathilde, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , sister of Queen Luise of Prussia, on January 29, 1805 in the so-called interior Palais (today the Princely Castle of St. Emmeram ) was born.

The princess of Poland had come for his baptism . His godfather was his uncle, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III .

His siblings were:

  • Charlotte Luise (March 24, 1790 - October 22, 1790),
  • Georg Karl (born March 26, 1792 - † January 20, 1795),
  • Maria Theresia (July 6th 1794 - August 18th 1874)
  • Luise Friederike (* August 29, 1798 - December 1, 1798)
  • Maria Sophia Dorothea (March 4, 1800 - December 20, 1870),
  • Maximilian Karl (born November 3, 1802 - † November 10, 1871).

Prince Paul III Anton Esterházy de Galantha had been his brother-in-law since 1812.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm joined the Regiment of the Gardes du Corps of the Prussian Army as a lieutenant , after having attended the educational institute of the Swiss pedagogue Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg in Hofwil with his brother for a few years .

The Prince's only son, besides his older brother, the Hereditary Prince, who survived childhood, died on horseback in a hunting accident.

Friedrich Wilhelm had fallen in love with his cousin Auguste von Solms-Braunfels. She was the daughter of his aunt Friederike von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Queen of Hanover. There is even said to have been a secret engagement, which the prince surprisingly broke, which plunged Princess Auguste into depression and made Queen Friederike so angry that at times even the relationship with Friedrich Wilhelm's mother, her sister, was disturbed.

The deceased prince was buried in Regensburg at St. Emmeram in the princely crypt of the house of Thurn und Taxis.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GHdA , Volume 114 (1997), p. 469 f.
  2. ↑ books.google.de
  3. ↑ reader.digitale-sammlungen.de
  4. ↑ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar . books.google.de archive.org
  5. ^ Josef Rübsam:  Taxis (Thurn and Taxis), Maximilian Karl, Prince of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 518 f.
  6. ↑ books.google.de
  7. ↑ books.google.de
  8. ↑ books.google.de
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personal data
SURNAME Thurn and Taxis, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian soldier and officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1825
Place of death Dischingen-Trugenhofen