Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden
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Frederick II | |||||
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Grand Duke of Baden | |||||
Reign | 28 September 1907 – 22 November 1918 | ||||
Predecessor | Frederick I | ||||
Successor | Monarchy abolished | ||||
Born | Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden | 9 July 1857||||
Died | 9 August 1928 Badenweiler, Weimar Republic | (aged 71)||||
Spouse | |||||
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House | Zähringen | ||||
Father | Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | ||||
Mother | Princess Louise of Prussia |
Frederick II (9 July 1857 – 9 August 1928;
Life
Friedrich "Fritz" Wilhelm Ludwig Leopold August Prinz von Baden was born on 9 July 1857, in Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg to Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden and Princess Louise of Prussia.
As a student at the
He was à la suite the Royal Prussian Regiments Erstes Garde-Regiment zu Fuß (1st Guard Foot Regiment) and 1. Garde-Ulanen-Regiment and à la suite the Imperial 1st Seebataillon. He was also Regimentschef of the 4. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 103, which was also known as Infanterie-Regiment „Großherzog Friedrich II. von Baden“ (4. Königlich Sächsisches) Nr. 103.
Promotions
- 1875 : Sekondeleutnant (= Leutnant)
- 1881 : Premierleutnant (= Oberleutnant)
- 1882 : Hauptmann
- 1884 : Major
- 1889 : Oberst
- 1891 : Generalmajor
- 1893 : Generalleutnant
- 1897 : General der Infanterie
- 1905 : Generaloberst with the rank of Generalfeldmarschall
Death
After his death in 1928, the headship of the house was transferred over to his first cousin who was the last Chancellor of Imperial Germany, Prince Maximilian of Baden.
Honours and awards
- German orders and decorations[1]
- Baden:
- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity[2]
- Knight of the Order of Berthold the First[3]
- Friedrich-Luise Medal
- Jubilee Medal for 1902
- Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Grand Duke Friedrich I and Grand Duchess Luise
- Anhalt: Grand Cross of the Order of Albert the Bear, 1889[4]
- Knight of St. Hubert, 1885[5]
- Brunswick: Grand Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion
- Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1879[6]
- Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 29 December 1874[7]
- Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Crown in Ore
- Knight of the Gold Lion of Nassau
- Oldenburg: Grand Cross of Honour of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1877[8]
- Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown[9]
- Schaumburg-Lippe: Cross of Honour of the House Order of Lippe, 1st Class
- Waldeck-Pyrmont: Cross of Merit, 1st Class
- Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1875[10]
- Prussia:
- Knight of the Black Eagle, 9 July 1875; with Collar, 1877[11]
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
- Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
- Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Classes
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Medal
- Service Award Cross
- Commemorative Medal for the Silver Wedding of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta, 27 February 1906
- Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class
- Foreign orders and decorations[1]
- Austria-Hungary:
- Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1885[12]
- Military Jubilee Cross, 14 August 1908
- Grand Cross of the
- Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
- Empire of Brazil: Grand Cross of the Southern Cross
- Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 13 October 1897[9][13]
- Kingdom of Italy: Knight of the Annunciation, 10 September 1897[14]
- Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion
- Kingdom of Romania:
- Grand Cross of the Order of Carol I, with Collar
- Grand Cross of the Star of Romania
- Russian Empire: Knight of St. Andrew
- Sweden-Norway:
- Knight of the Seraphim, with Collar, 20 September 1881[9][15]
- Grand Cross of St. Olav, 27 September 1897[16]
- United Kingdom: Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 16 June 1905[17]
- Honorary military appointments
- Honorary General of the Swedish Army, 1906[18]
Ancestry
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References
- ^ a b Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1910), "Großherzogliches Haus", pp. 1-2
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch ... Baden (1876), "Großherzogliche Orden" p. 57
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch ... Baden (1880), "Großherzogliche Orden" p. 72
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Herzogtums Anhalt (1894), "Herzogliche Haus-Orden Albrecht des Bären" p. 17
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Bayern (1908), "Königliche Orden", p. 7
- ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1890), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 46
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen" p. 12
- ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach Archived 6 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine (1900), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 16
- ^ a b c Justus Perthes, Almanach de Gotha (1921) p. 12
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1907), "Königliche Orden" p. 28
- ^ "Schwarzer Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1886, p. 7
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- ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.
- ^ Italia : Ministero dell'interno (1900). Calendario generale del Regno d'Italia. Unione tipografico-editrice. p. 54.
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1925, p. 807, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org
- ^ Norway (1908), "Den kongelige norske Sanct Olavs Orden", Norges Statskalender (in Norwegian), pp. 869–870, retrieved 17 September 2021
- ^ "The London Gazette, Issue: 27807 Page: 4251" (PDF). The London Gazette. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1915, p. 201, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org
External links
- Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden in City wikiof Karlsruhe), German