Georg Friedrich II. (Brandenburg-Ansbach)

Margrave Georg Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach (born May 3, 1678 in Ansbach ; † March 29, 1703 at Schmidmühlen ) called the Younger , was Margrave of the Franconian Principality of Ansbach from 1692 to 1703.

Life

Georg Friedrich was the third son of Margrave Johann Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1654–1686) from his first marriage to Johanna Elisabeth (1651–1680), daughter of Margrave Friedrich VI. from Baden .

After his brother Christian Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach died in 1692, he became his heir as margrave. At this time Georg Friedrich was still a minor, so that initially a guardianship government took over the reign in the Principality of Ansbach.

In the Palatinate War of Succession he fought from 1695 to 1697 as a volunteer in the Imperial Army. During the War of the Spanish Succession in 1702 he succeeded in taking the Modenese fortress of Bersello . He fell as a general of the imperial army when he suffered fatal wounds in the battle of Schmidmühlen in 1703 when crossing the Vils . Since he had no descendants himself, his inheritance fell to his half-brother Wilhelm Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach .

literature

• Jutta Franke: Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Ansbach. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 249 ( digitized version ).
• Theodor Hirsch:  Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Ansbach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 629.
• M. Spindler, A. Kraus: History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Georg Friedrich II. In VD 17 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Albrecht	Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach 1692–1703	Wilhelm Friedrich