Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945)

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Waldemar of Prussia, ca.1910
Prince Waldemar's grave in the Erbach cemetery in the Rheingau

Waldemar Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Heinrich Prince of Prussia (born March 20, 1889 in Kiel , † May 2, 1945 in Tutzing ) was a German lawyer as well as a Prussian officer and large landowner . He was a member of the Hohenzollern family .

Life

As the son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia and his wife Irene born. Princess of Hesse and the Rhine , Waldemar was taught by teachers at the Kiel high school in the "castle class".

After graduation , he studied law at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität zu Strasbourg and since May 3, 1910 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

From 1912 to 1914 he was a government trainee in Hanover and from 10 September 1913 a captain in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot . He also stood as a lieutenant captain à la suite in the Imperial Navy . During the First World War he was commander of the Imperial Motor Vehicle Corps . After the end of the war he was released from military service as a major in the cavalry and corvette captain à la suite.

Since August 14, 1919 Waldemar was born with Calixta Agnes Adelheid. Married Princess zu Lippe-Detmold (1895–1982) from Potsdam. She was the daughter of Major General Prince Friedrich Wilhelm zur Lippe, who fell in 1914 .

From 1919 to 1921 he was with the government in Schleswig , then for a few years at the Landschaftliche Bank Schleswig-Holstein, later Bank Companie Nord , in Kiel. At that time, on April 25, 1923, he became a connoisseur of the Corps Holsatia , which on July 28, 1923, was philistine as a corps bow bearer . He received the ribbon on August 6, 1938 .

From 1926 he managed his father's Hemmelmark estate , and from 1941 the Kamenz estate in Silesia , which belonged to the Nassau-Oranien family entourage . In April 1945 he fled the Red Army from Kamenz Castle and came to Tutzing on Lake Starnberg . Weakened by the flight, he died of hemophilia from gastric bleeding. He is buried in the forest cemetery in Tutzing. His widow came to Erbach (Rheingau) as Princess Waldemar , where she had free right to live in an apartment in the north wing of Reinhartshausen Castle until the end of her life in 1982 .

Prince Waldemar was u. a. Knight of the Black Eagle Order , the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order , the Order of the Crown 1st Class, the Grand Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern and the Order of the Rautenkrone as well as the Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords.

Inclinations

He dealt with the history of uniforms . The collection of tin soldiers he made himself was famous. In Paretz Castle it fell into Russian hands. He liked to stay at the Hohenzollern family estate in Havelland and gave it special care.

Web links

Commons : Waldemar von Preußen (1889–1945)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary ranking list of the former German Army. Ed .: German Officer Association, ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1926, p. 109.
  2. ↑ See Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Volume 90, CA Starke, 1987, p. 67.
  3. ↑ Kulturwerk Silesia: Kamenz (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki)
  4. ^ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy , Ed .: Marinekabinett , Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1918, p. 3.
  5. ^ Louis Ferdinand Wentz: The members of the Holsatia, additions to the 4th and 5th part . In: Festschrift des Corps Holsatia. Kiel 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Waldemar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prussia, Waldemar Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Heinrich Prinz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and large landowner
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Tutzing