Friedrich of Prussia (1911–1966)
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph Prince of Prussia (born December 19, 1911 in Berlin , † April 20, 1966 in Reinhartshausen Castle ) was a grandson of the last German Emperor.
Life
Prince Friedrich was the fourth child of the German and Prussian Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife Cecilie , daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. von Mecklenburg and the Grand Duchess Anastasia Michailowna Romanowa .
Friedrich spent the first two years of his life in Sopot until January 1914 , because his father commanded the 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment in Danzig until he was transferred to Berlin. From 1917 Friedrich lived with his mother and siblings in the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam , where he went to school.
Like his brothers, Friedrich studied law and economics. He passed his first state examination in law in 1936 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. In 1937 he moved to Great Britain and worked under the name "George Mansfield" at a London bank.
After the outbreak of war
When Friedrich was not drafted into the Home Forces after the outbreak of war, his identity as the son of the Crown Prince became public. He was interned and eventually deported to Canada . After the intervention of the British Queen Mother Mary , whose husband was Prince Friedrich's godfather, he was allowed to return to England in 1941.
post war period
In July 1945 he married in Little Hadham near Albury in Hertfordshire Lady Brigid Guinness (1920-1995), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Iveagh , the owner of the Guinness brewery . From 1951 Friedrich again carried the name of Prince of Prussia. In England he lived as a farmer on his Patmore Hall estate near Albury.
As the owner of the Schloss Reinhartshausen winery and hotel in Erbach (Rheingau) , he stayed regularly in Germany. During one of these stays, Friedrich drowned in the Rhine at the age of 54 . He was buried in the small family cemetery in the officers' garden of the St. Michaels Bastion within Hohenzollern Castle .
progeny
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Lady Brigid and Friedrich had five children:
- Friedrich Nikolaus (* 1946)
- Andreas (* 1947)
- Victoria (* 1952)
- Antonia (* 1955) ⚭ Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington (* 1945)
- Rupert (* 1955)
literature
- Friedrich Prince of Prussia , International Biographical Archive 23/1966 of May 30, 1966, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Jörg Kirschstein : Crown Princess Cecilie. A picture biography , Berlin: be.bra Verlag Edition Q 2004, ISBN 978-3-86124-666-4 , p. 87.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia: The House of Hohenzollern 1918–1945 . Langen Müller, Munich and Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7844-2077-X .
Web links
- Friedrich Prince of Prussia at preussen.de
- Prussen, Friedrich von; 1911–1966 , entry in the German Central Library for Economics
Individual proof
- ↑ Helga Tödt: The Krupps of the East. Schichau and his heirs. An industrial dynasty on the Baltic Sea . Pro Business 2012, ISBN 978-3-86386-345-6 , p. 120.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedrich of Prussia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph Prince of Prussia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1966 |
| Place of death | Reinhartshausen Castle |