George of Prussia

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Prince George of Prussia
Prince Georg, old age picture
Rheinstein Castle with castle chapel based on a template by Theodor Blätterbauer , 1880

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Ernst Prince of Prussia (born February 12, 1826 at Jägerhof Palace near Düsseldorf , † May 2, 1902 in Berlin ) was a Prussian cavalry general and writer.

family

Georg was the youngest son of Friedrich Prince of Prussia (1794–1863) and Wilhelmine Luise Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (1799–1882). His brother was Alexander of Prussia .

Life

He spent his youth on the Rhine at Jägerhof Palace, as his father was stationed there. Travels to Great Britain, France and Italy made him discover art and literature. Although he “deviated from his family tradition, he showed no inclination towards a military career and began to develop his musical talents very early”, he joined the 1st Guard Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army on February 12, 1836 as a second lieutenant . In 1861 he became chief of the 1st Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment No. 4 and in 1866 general of the cavalry. His regiment fought in the Austro -Prussian War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 , without which Georg was actively involved in the battles.

Nevertheless, he was able to begin studies in Bonn in 1843 and then came to Berlin in the 1850s, where he frequented the salon of Minna von Treskow . It was also she who encouraged him to publish the pieces. In 1872 he published his autobiography “Yellowed Leaves” anonymously, which, however, did not give any closer insight into his privacy.

At the General Association for German Literature he took over the protectorate when it was founded in 1873 and from 1874 he was also protector of the Historical Museum of the City of Düsseldorf . In the same year he became president of the academy of non-profit science in Erfurt . He bequeathed his extensive library with around 6000 titles to the Bonn University Library . It can be found there as a special collection from the Prince Georg Library.

After his death he was transferred to Rheinstein Castle , which he inherited with his brother Alexander in 1863 and for which he had always had a fondness, where he was buried on May 9, 1902 in the Rheinstein Castle Chapel. In 1906 the newly founded state grammar school in Düsseldorf was named the Royal Prince Georg grammar school in his honor. The Prinz-Georg-Straße in Düsseldorf also bears his name.

Works

He published poems and plays under the pseudonyms Georg Conrad and Günther von Freiberg . Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon from 1888 cautiously describes him as “a predominantly eclectic talent who succeeds in imitating and imitating the most varied of dramatic styles”.

  • Elfrida from Monte Salerno (drama) 1874
  • Cleopatra (tragedy) 1877
  • Phaedra (tragedy) 1877
  • Elektra (plays) 1877
  • Revenue de tout 1877
  • Rudél et Mélisande (Tragedy) 1877
  • Don Sylvio (tragedy) 1877
  • The Alexanderzug (fantastic tragedy) 1877
  • The talisman (tragedy) 1877
  • Alexandros (tragedy) 1877
  • In vain or Christine, King of Sweden (tragedy) 1877
  • Arion (tragedy) 1877
  • Where is happiness? (Comedy) 1877
  • Bianca Capello 1877
  • Yolanthe (tragedy) 1877
  • Lurley (tragedy) 1877
  • Adonia 1877
  • Medea (tragedy) 1877
  • Suleiman (epilogue) 1877
  • Ferrara (tragedy) 1878
  • Mademoiselle Esther (drama) 1883
  • Catharina of Medici (historical drama) 1884
  • Sappho (drama) 1887
  • Conradin (tragedy) 1887
  • Praxedis (drama) 1896
  • Raphael Sanzio (drama) 1896

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erwin In het Panhuis, 2006, p. 35. ( PDF p. 87)
  2. ↑ see also his autobiography Yellow Leaves (Berlin 1872)
  3. ↑ Official press Preubeta; ens (ZEFYS). In: newspaper department. Berlin State Library, May 15, 2013, accessed on December 31, 2014 .
  4. ^ Petra Wilhelmy Dollinger: The Berlin salons. Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016414-5 , p. 213. Restricted preview in Google book search
  5. ^ History of the museum. Accessed December 31, 2014 . In: duesseldorf.de
  6. ↑ Prinz-Georg-Bibliothek special stock of the Prinz-Georg-Bibliothek ( Memento of the original from December 9th, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulb.uni-bonn.de
  7. ↑ zlb.de ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zlb.de
  8. ^ The Rheinstein Castle in Trechtingshausen - regionalgeschichte.net. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  9. ↑ From Frederick, German Emperor Frederick, Georg Schuster, 1907, p. 7
  10. ^ History of the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
  11. ↑ List of the pieces: Georg von Preußen , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de
  12. ^ Georg (Hanover, Mecklenburg, Prussia, Saxony) . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Ernst Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian prince, general of the cavalry and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH at Jägerhof Palace near Düsseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1902
Place of death Berlin