Michael Prince of Prussia

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Michael Prince of Prussia in front of Hohenzollern Castle near Hechingen

Michael Prince of Prussia (born March 22, 1940 in Berlin ; † April 3, 2014 in Thanheim ) was a German author. He belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian branch of the Hohenzollern family .

family

Michael Prince of Prussia was born as the second son of Louis Ferdinand of Prussia in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . His father was a grandson of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II , his mother Kira Romanowa a great-granddaughter of the Russian Tsar Alexander II and a great niece of Tsar Alexander III. There was a relationship between von Prussia and the British Queen Victoria via Wilhelm II as well as Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha . He was also an uncle of Georg Friedrich von Prussia , the current head of the House of Hohenzollern.

Live and act

Towards the end of the Second World War , his family had to flee from Cadinen in East Prussia and settled in the Borgfeld district of Bremen , where von Prussia grew up.

After studying in Freiburg and spending several years in the USA, he first worked in New York and later in Berlin as a sales representative for the American airline Pan Am . Professionally, various activities followed in the financial sector , in PR and in the hotel industry, including as a member of the sales department of the Maritim Hotelgesellschaft . In the 1980s, he and his wife Brigitta moved to Mallorca for nine years , where he worked in advertising for large companies.

From Prussia with his second wife Brigitta and his two daughters from his first marriage

Von Prussia was married to Jutta, nee Jörn (* 1943) from 1966 to 1982. His two daughters Micaela and Nataly come from this connection. In 1982 he got a second marriage with Brigitta, née von Dallwitz-Wegner (1939-2016). Both of his marriages are considered unequal under house law . The family-internal regulations led to disadvantages for him in terms of inheritance.

In 1986 he published the autobiography "To Be a Prussian Prince". From 2008, historical works and numerous participations in events on the history of the Hohenzollern family followed.

Von Prussia last lived in Thanheim in the Zollernalb district , which is located near the Hohenzollern Castle . Two years after his death, his second wife died by suicide .

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See also

ancestors

Pedigree of Michael Prince of Prussia
Great grandparents

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

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

 Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich Romanov
(1847–1909)

⚭ 1874
Marie zu Mecklenburg
(1854–1920)


Alfred von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha
(1844–1900)

⚭ 1874
Grand Duchess
Marija Alexandrovna Romanowa
(1853–1920)

Grandparents

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

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

parents

Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (1907–1994)
⚭ 1938
Kira Kirillowna Romanowa (1909–1967)

Michael Prince of Prussia (1940-2014)

Web links

Commons : Michael Prinz von Preussen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Cadinen in East Prussia
  2. ^ Biography of Michael von Preußen at his publishing house ( Memento from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Zeit Online (1966): The citizen and the prince
  4. ^ Karl-Günther von Hase , Reinhard Appel : Prussia: 1701/2001. Eco-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-934519-80-6 , p. 264.
  5. ↑ Brigitta von Prussia (1939-2016).
  6. ↑ Brigitta von Prussia (1939-2016).
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Michael Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and member of the House of Hohenzollern
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2014
Place of death Thanheim