Sigismund of Prussia

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Sigismund of Prussia during the First World War
Prince Sigismund with his parents around 1905

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born November 27, 1896 in Kiel , † November 14, 1978 in Puntarenas , Costa Rica ; full name August Wilhelm Viktor Karl Heinrich Sigismund Prince of Prussia ) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern .

Life

Sigismund was the second son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929) and his wife Princess Irene of Hessen-Darmstadt (1866-1953) and a nephew of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II and the last Russian Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna . He was born in the castle in Kiel, where his father resided as admiral of the Imperial Navy . He was baptized on January 30, 1897, the Kaiser was one of his godparents.

Prince Sigismund as a youth, 1913

Until the beginning of the First World War, Sigismund attended the Hebbelschule in Kiel , where a specially selected school class was put together at the expense of his father at Easter 1909. His confirmation took place at Easter 1913 , which was celebrated in Kiel as a major social event. His teachers attested him good-naturedness, but also a lack of talent. When the First World War broke out , Sigismund immediately volunteered , but was postponed because he was not yet 18 years old. He initially visited the Lower Sixth, preparing to Seekadetteneinstiegsprüfung ago. In the fall of 1914 he joined the First Sailor Artillery Department at Fort Falckenstein near Friedrichsort to train in the Navy . In May 1915 he was assigned to the artillery in Flanders and in 1918 served as an officer on watch on submarines. Most recently he was a lieutenant at sea and also stood on foot as a lieutenant à la suite of the 1st Guard Regiment .

After the end of the war and at the same time after the abolition of the monarchy, he was forced to choose a civil profession. In 1919 he first made up his Abitur at Oberrealschule I and then trained as a businessman in Hamburg. On July 11, 1919, he married his cousin (2nd degree) Charlotte Agnes Princess of Saxony-Altenburg (1899–1989), the eldest daughter of the last Duke Ernst II and Princess Adelheid, on the Schleswig-Holstein Gut Hemmelmark near Eckernförde Schaumburg-Lippe .

In 1922 he officially dissolved his court and went to Guatemala for his company , where he took over the management of a coffee plantation . From there he went to Costa Rica in 1928, where he founded a large bee farm . The global economic crisis as well as the Second World War led to constant financial worries.

In 1948 he became a member of the Corps Brandenburgia-Berlin to Cleveland / Ohio .

progeny

Sigismund Prince of Prussia had two children with his wife Charlotte Agnes:

  • Barbara Irene Adelheid Viktoria Elisabeth Bathildis (1920–1994)
∞ Christian Ludwig Herzog zu Mecklenburg (1912–1996), head of the House of Mecklenburg from 1945
  • Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad (1924–2013)
∞ Maritza Farkas (1929–1996)

literature

  • Harald Eschenburg: Prince Heinrich of Prussia. The Grand Admiral in the Emperor's shadow. Heide 1989, ISBN 3-8042-0456-2 .
  • Jürgen Plöger: The early years of the Hebbel School in Kiel. A look into the imperial era. Ludwig, Kiel 2002, ISBN 3-933598-42-7 , p. 76 ff.
  • Karin Feuerstein-Praßer: The German Empresses. Piper, Munich 2006.
  • Ernst Dietrich Baron v. Mirbach: Prince Heinrich of Prussia. A biography of the Kaiserbrother. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-412-21081-6 , pp. 549–558.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 146/47
  2. ↑ Family tree of the Hohenzollern: Friedrich III. King of Prussia, German Emperor. Preussen.de ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Sigismund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prussia, August Wilhelm Viktor Karl Heinrich Sigismund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian prince
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1978
Place of death Puntarenas , Costa Rica