Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia

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Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia (2014)

Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (born June 10, 1976 in Bremen ) is a German entrepreneur and has been the head of the House of Hohenzollern since 1994 .

Life

Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia is the son of Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia junior (1944–1977) and his wife Donata, b. Countess of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1950–2015) and great-great-grandson of the last German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II (1859–1941; reigned 1888–1918). He has a younger sister, Cornelie-Cécile Princess of Prussia (* 1978).

Shortly after his first birthday, his father had a fatal accident during a reserve exercise . Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia spent his childhood and youth like his sister in Fischerhude near Bremen and first attended high school in Bremen and later in Oldenburg . He graduated from Glenalmond College near Perth in Scotland. Following a two-year military service with the mountain hunters in Mittenwald , he completed a degree in business administration at the Technical University of Freiberg Mountain Academy in Saxony.

After the death of his grandfather Louis Ferdinand Sr. on September 25, 1994, he became head of the house in accordance with the provisions of the House Law of the House of Prussia . As head of the family, he runs the family business and represents the Hohenzollern people in public. He owns two thirds of Hohenzollern Castle (the remaining third belongs to Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern , the head of the Swabian line) as well as the Prinzeninsel in Plön and some other properties. He is seen by German monarchists as a contender for a possible Prussian or German throne, but says himself that he does not seek a political role for himself. He compares his role to that of an entrepreneur who continues a long-established family business.

Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia worked as a business and start-up consultant on the exploitation of university innovations and founded the Kgl himself . Prussian beer manufacturer based in Berlin, whose Pilsener brand “Preussens” is brewed in Braunschweig . He was promoted to major in the reserve in May 2011 .

family

Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia with his wife Sophie (2011)

Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia married Princess Sophie von Isenburg in 2011 , daughter of Prince Franz Alexander von Isenburg (1943–2018) and his wife Elisabeth Christine, b. Countess of Saurma-Jeltsch . The couple was married by Mayor Jann Jakobs in the wedding hall of the town hall in Potsdam. In August 2011 the church wedding took place as part of an ecumenical service in the Friedenskirche in Potsdam. The wedding ceremony with over 650 guests from the German and international aristocracy was broadcast live by rbb in a three-hour program moderated by Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert and Tatjana Jury and followed by around 160,000 viewers.

The twin sons Carl Friedrich Franz Alexander and Louis Ferdinand Christian Albrecht were born on January 20, 2013 in Bremen . The daughter Emma Marie Charlotte Sophie was born on April 2nd, 2015 in Bremen, son Heinrich Albert Johann Georg on November 17th, 2016. The family lives in Potsdam - Babelsberg .

Honorary positions

Georg Friedrich von Prussia is a member of the board of the Princess Kira von Preussen Foundation , of which his wife is chairman. He is also an honorary member of the board of the Association of German-American Clubs and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection since 2014 . He campaigns for the restoration of the Berlin Hohenzollern Museum , which was located in Monbijou Castle , which was badly damaged in World War II and demolished in 1959 against violent protests by museum experts , and which is to find its new home in the eastern Knobelsdorff wing of Charlottenburg Palace .

criticism

Since about 2014 Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia has been in negotiations with the federal government for the return or compensation for important works of art that were once in the possession of his ancestors and are now in museums. The dispute escalated in 2019 when parts of the Hohenzollern's demands and their assessment became known to the public as "largely excessive and unacceptable" through a joint statement by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundations and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the German Historical Museum . This also led to a far-reaching, above all morally justified criticism of the behavior of the House of Hohenzollern, which Georg Friedrich rejected. In the course of the debate, further allegations were made against Georg Friedrich of Prussia and the Hohenzollern family of intimidating critical scholars with legal means. The Hohenzollern lawyer rejected the allegations against the house and described the debate as "marked by a lot of false information".

Since 2018, Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia has been trying to obtain the return of Rheinfels Castle for his own economic use. His lawsuit was dismissed in the first instance by the Koblenz Regional Court in mid-2019, against which he appealed. An out-of-court settlement was reached in the legal dispute at the end of January 2020. Thereafter, the House of Hohenzollern irrevocably recognizes St. Goar's ownership rights to Rheinfels Castle, and in return, the city on the Rhine will work closely with the Princess Kira von Prussia Foundation to support disadvantaged children.

ancestors

Pedigree of Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia
Great-great-grandparents

Kaiser
Wilhelm II (German Empire)
(1859–1941)
⚭ 1881
Princess
Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
(1858–1921)

Grand Duke
Friedrich III. von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(1851–1897)
⚭ 1879
Grand Duchess
Anastasia Michailowna Romanowa
(1860–1922)

Grand Duke
Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Romanow
(1847–1909)
⚭ 1874
Duchess
Marie of Mecklenburg
(1854–1920)

Duke
Alfred (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
(1844–1900)
⚭ 1874
Grand Duchess
Maria Alexandrovna Romanowa
(1853–1920)

Prince
Wolfgang zu Castell-Rüdenhausen
(1830–1913)
⚭ 1859
Princess
Emma of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen
(1841–1926)

Count
Willem von Bentinck and Waldeck-Limpurg
(1848–1912)
⚭ 1877
Baroness
Maria van Heeckeren van Wassenaer
(1855–1912)

Count
Otto zu Solms-Laubach
(1860–1904)
⚭ 1898
Princess
Emma of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen
(1870–1944)

Prince
Karl zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
(1866–1920)
⚭ 1894
Princess
Emma zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
(1875–1956)

Great grandparents

Crown Prince
Wilhelm of Prussia
(1882–1951)
⚭ 1905
Duchess
Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(1886–1954)

Grand Prince
Kyrill Wladimirowitsch Romanow
(1876–1938)
⚭ 1905
Princess
Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876–1936)

Prince
Casimir zu Castell-Rüdenhausen
(1861–1933)
⚭ 1905
Countess
Mechtild von Bentinck
(1877–1940)

Count
Georg zu Solms-Laubach
(1899–1969)
⚭ 1924
Princess
Johanna zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
(1905–1982)

Grandparents

Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (1907–1994)
⚭ 1937
Kira Kirillowna Romanowa (1909–1967)

Siegfried Prince of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1916–2007)
⚭ 1946
Countess Irene zu Solms-Laubach (1925–2006)

parents

Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (1944–1977)
⚭ 1975
Donata Emma Countess zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1950–2015), re-wed Duchess of Oldenburg

Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia (* 1976)

See also

literature

  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Princely Houses, Volume XIV (Volume 100 of the complete series), Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1991.
  • Heinrich von Massenbach: The Hohenzollern then and now . 17th edition, Verlag Tradition und Leben, Bonn 2004, pp. 80f, ISBN 3-9800373-0-4 .
  • I don't need a lock . In: Cicero - Magazine for Political Culture , No. 6/2005, pp. 120 ff.
  • Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia, Gudrun Gersmann , Michael Kaiser: Nobility today - questions to Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia . In: Zeitblicke 4 (2005), No. 2, ISSN  1619-0459 .
  • Ulrich Feldhahn: The Prussian kings and German emperors . 3rd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-615-5 .
  • Ulrich Feldhahn, Stefan Schimmel: Prinzeninsel Plön - A foray through history . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-948-4 .
  • Prussia wasn't angry , Interview, in: Stuttgarter Zeitung , June 20, 2017
  • We don't want to seem more than we are. A conversation with Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 9, 2018. P. 9.

Web links

Commons : Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. I don't need a lock . In: Cicero , June 2005
  2. ^ A b Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia, Gudrun Gersmann , Michael Kaiser: Adel heute - questions to Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia . In: Zeitblicke 4 (2005), No. 2, ISSN  1619-0459 .
  3. MAZ Potsdam from November 24, 2017
  4. Georg Friedrich is now reserve major . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of May 31, 2011
  5. ^ Obituary notice Prince von Isenburg , Süddeutsche Zeitung
  6. presseportal.de
  7. maerkischeallgemeine.de ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. Prussian twins christened at www.burg-hohenzollern.com, accessed on November 13, 2019
  9. Princess Emma christened on www.burg-hohenzollern.com, accessed on November 13, 2019
  10. Prince Heinrich christened at www.burg-hohenzollern.com, accessed on May 19, 2019
  11. ^ Sabine Schicketanz : From Prussia are now Potsdamer . Potsdam Latest News from January 26, 2018, accessed on May 19, 2019
  12. ^ Princess Kira von Preußen Foundation on www.preussen.de ( Memento from April 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  13. Association magazine "Gazette", 1/2019 (PDF, 3 MB), p. 1
  14. ^ Committees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. Hohenzollern attorney counters accusations from historians - Is the freedom of science in danger? Accessed January 12, 2020 (German).
  16. Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia calls for Rheinfels Castle back In: pfaelzischer-merkur.de , September 21, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2019.
  17. Thorsten Metzner: How the dispute between the emperor's great-great-grandson and the federal government could escalate. In: Tagesspiegel. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  18. Hohenzollern come to an agreement with the city of St. Goar. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Louis Ferdinand Sr. Head of the Hohenzollern company
since 1994
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