Prince of Prussia
The title Prince of Prussia originally referred to the Prussian prince who, in the absence of a crown prince (i.e. if the monarch had no son born from a legitimate marriage), was entitled to inheritance according to Salian law . Since the end of the monarchy and the abolition of the nobility in 1918, Prince of Prussia has been part of the surname of male members of the Brandenburg-Prussian line of the House of Hohenzollern . Female members of this line have the name Princess of Prussia as a family name . The members of the Swabian line use the name of Hohenzollern as a family name in addition to the prince or princess .
The first bearer of the title was August Wilhelm , who received it on June 30, 1744 as the next older brother of the childless Friedrich II .
After August Wilhelm's death in 1758, the title passed - by no means automatically - to his son, who later became King Friedrich Wilhelm II . Rather, the latter was not appointed as his successor by Friedrich II until 1760.
The third and last holder of the title, before the abolition of the monarchy in Germany in 1918, was Wilhelm I (since 1840, presumptive heir to the throne from 1828/29), as the successor to his childless brother, Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
The remaining male members of the Prussian ruling house were princes in Prussia. When addressing them, the title prince was put in front of them, followed by first names and designation of origin of Prussia , such as Prince Heinrich of Prussia. In the case of the Princes of Prussia, however, the first name was prefixed to the title, i.e. August Wilhelm , Prince of Prussia.
The following members of the Brandenburg-Prussian line of the House of Hohenzollern were or will be called the Prince of Prussia:
- Franz Wilhelm Prince of Prussia (* 1943), entrepreneur
- Friedrich I (Prussia) (1657–1713), King in Prussia
- Friedrich II. (Prussia) ( Friedrich the Great or the Old Fritz ; 1712–1786), King of Prussia
- Friedrich III. (German Empire) (1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia
- Friedrich von Prussia (1794–1863) , Prussian prince and general of the cavalry
- Friedrich von Prussia (1911–1966) , German nobleman, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885) , Prussian prince and general
- Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917) , German rider
- Friedrich Karl von Prussia (1919–2006) , member of the former Prussian royal house of the Hohenzollern family
- Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931), Prussian prince and officer, most recently colonel general
- Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1895–1959) (1895–1959), German nobleman and painter
- Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (1773-1796), Prussian prince and Major General, and Louis of Prussia called
- Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia (1891–1927), German rider
- Friedrich Wilhelm (Brandenburg) ( the Great Elector ; 1620–1688), Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia) (1688–1740), King in Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm II (Prussia) (1744–1797), King of Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Prussia) (1770–1840), King of Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (1795–1861), King of Prussia
- Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia (1715–1744), Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, see Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt
- Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia (politician) (1880–1925), German politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia (historian) (1939–2015), German historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Victor of Prussia (1859–1941), see Wilhelm II. (German Empire)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Prussia , see Wilhelm of Prussia (1783-1851)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig of Prussia , see Friedrich of Prussia (1794–1863)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl of Prussia , (1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia, see Friedrich III. (German Empire)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst of Prussia , see Wilhelm von Prussia (1882–1951)
- Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia (* 1976), business economist, head of the House of Hohenzollern since 1994
- Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (1944–1977)
- Michael Prince of Prussia (1940-2014), author
- Oskar von Prussia (master master, 1888) (1888–1958), Prussian officer; Major General of the Wehrmacht; Lord Master of the Order of St. John
- Oskar Prince of Prussia (Lord Master, 1959) (* 1959), German Lord Master of the Order of St. John
Prince of Prussia is the name
- of the merchant ship Prinz von Preußen (ship)
- the Prince of Prussia colliery in Bochum
- of the former train station and today's junction between the Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg railway and the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway in Bochum