Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (1944–1977)
Louis Ferdinand Oskar Christian Prince of Prussia (born August 25, 1944 in Golzow , Soldin district ; † July 11, 1977 in Bremen ; called Louis Ferdinand Jr. to distinguish it from his father of the same name ) from the House of Hohenzollern was a great-grandson of the last German emperor .
Life
Louis Ferdinand Jr. (called "Lulu" within the family) was the fifth of seven children of Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and his wife Kira , the former Grand Duchess of Russia . He was born on Gut Schildberg , where the family had recently moved from Gut Cadinen in East Prussia . The family moved to Bremen in 1947 and had lived on the Wümmehof in the Borgfeld district of Bremen since 1950 .
In 1967 Louis Ferdinand jr. volunteered to serve in the Bundeswehr to become a reserve officer . At the age of 28, he began an apprenticeship as a banker and attended evening classes in order to obtain his Abitur.
In addition, he performed an annual military exercise as an ensign in the reserve . During one of these exercises there was a maneuvering accident in Schwanewede on May 15, 1977, five months before he would have been promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. He had got caught between two armored vehicles while loading a crew car. He was taken to the deaconess hospital in Bremen- Gröpelingen to treat the serious injuries . Louis Ferdinand died after two months at the age of 32 of serious internal injuries.
Louis Ferdinand Jr. was married to Donata Countess zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1950–2015) since 1975 . She was a daughter of Siegfried Fürst zu Castell-Rüdenhausen . The wedding was a media event of the year. His son Georg Friedrich (* 1976) and his daughter Cornelie-Cecilie (* 1978), who was born after his accidental death, came from the connection . The widow Donata married Friedrich August Herzog von Oldenburg (1936–2017) for the second time in 1991 .
Louis Ferdinand Jr. After his marriage in 1975 his father appointed him as head of the Hohenzollern family. His two older brothers had not married appropriately before. Due to his early death in 1977 after the death of his father in 1994, his son Georg Friedrich became the head of the house.
The family lived in Fischerhude near Bremen. There is also the grave of Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia. A reserve group founded in 1963 is named after him.
ancestors
| Pedigree of Louis Ferdinand of Prussia | ||||||||
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| Great grandparents |
Kaiser Wilhelm II. |
Grand Duke |
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich Romanov (1847–1909) ⚭ 1874 |
Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1844–1900) ⚭ 1874 |
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| Grandparents |
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882–1951) |
Grand Prince Kyrill Wladimirowitsch Romanow (1876–1938) |
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| parents |
Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (1907–1994) |
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Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1944–1977) |
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Web links
- Family tree on the Hohenzollern website
- Article Indispensable Imperial Crown in Der Spiegel , issue 47/1968 of November 18, 1968 (accessed on May 2, 2014)
- 36th anniversary of the death of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia near Corona on July 11, 2013 (accessed on May 4, 2014)
- Donata Duchess of Oldenburg, Far away and yet very close , Casteller Nachrichten , No. 41/2011, p. 4 ff. (Accessed on May 2, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Franc Domin: Now the Prussian family tree is trimmed. Excerpt from a magazine dated May 12, 1977 (accessed May 3, 2014)
- ↑ 36th anniversary of the death of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia near Corona on July 11, 2013 (accessed on May 4, 2014)
- ↑ After his accident, before his death, he was promoted to lieutenant, according to: Hermann L. Gremliza , How Hannelore Kohl charmed the Russians , Volume 2 of the Three Dramas , ISBN 978-3-922144-56-4 , Concrete literature Publishing house, Hamburg 1986
- ↑ Presented: Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Prussia on T-Online (via German Press Agency ) from August 23, 2011 (accessed on May 2, 2014)
- ↑ Our imperial couple at Stern.de from August 27, 2011 (accessed on May 2, 2014)
- ↑ Volker Reinhardt and Thomas Lau, German families: historical portraits from Bismarck to Weizsäcker , ISBN 978-3-406-52905-4 , CH Beck, 2005, p. 72
- ↑ Georg Friedrich von Prussia married his Sophie in the Augsburger Allgemeine on August 27, 2011 (accessed on May 2, 2014)
- ↑ Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia marries in Potsdam in the Hamburger Abendblatt on February 28, 2011 (accessed on May 2, 2014)
- ^ RK 9 "Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia" , website of the comradeship (accessed on May 2, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Prussia, Louis Ferdinand Prince of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prussia, Louis Ferdinand Oskar Christian Prince von (full name); Prussia, Louis Ferdinand junior von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German member of the House of Hohenzollern |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Golzow , Soldin district |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1977 |
| Place of death | Bremen |