Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1895–1959)
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia | |
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Born | Franz Joseph Oskar Ernst Patrick Friedrich Leopold Prinz von Preußen 27 August 1895 Berlin, German Empire |
Died | 27 November 1959 Lugano, Switzerland | (aged 64)
House | Hohenzollern |
Father | Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia |
Mother | Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
Occupation | Art dealer, collector |
Franz Joseph Oskar Ernst Patrick Friedrich Leopold Prinz von Preußen (27 August 1895, in
.Biography
He was the son of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia and Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and a nephew of German Empress Augusta Victoria, his mother's elder sister. Originally trained by tutors, at the age of ten, as was customary, he received the Order of the Black Eagle. The following year, he became a Lieutenant in the First Foot Guards.[1]
In 1912, he became interested in painting, and took drawing lessons from Karl Hagemeister. At the outbreak of World War I, he started his military service, but was soon discharged due to poor health. This enabled him to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied with Carl von Marr, among others. He also began collecting art.
His unrestrained collecting put him heavily in debt. As a result, in 1917, the
In the 1920s and 1930s, he continued collecting and worked as an art dealer; trading in art objects and autographs from the collection of his great-grandfather,
After selling the castle in 1939, he and Cerrini moved to a villa, "Gut Imlau", near
Dachau
In May 1944, he and Cerrini were arrested in Bad Gastein for listening to a "
In 1945, he was part of a group of high-status prisoners and
In the first of the Dachau trials, he served as a witness against numerous camp officials, including the Commandant, Martin Gottfried Weiss. Forty of them were found guilty, and thirty-six were sentenced to death.
He never returned to Germany, choosing instead to settle in Switzerland.
He died fourteen years later in Lugano.
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References
- ^ Militär-Wochenblatt, #91, 1906, pg.1560
- ^ Frankfurter Zeitung, 2. Oktober 1917, Online
- ^ Deutscher Geschichtskalender 1918, pg.235.
- ^ John Murray, Behind the Scenes at the Prussian Court, London, 1939, pg.247.
- ^ Harry Nehls: "Der »Klosterhof« im Park von Schloss Glienicke in Berlin". Berlin 1993. In: Jahrbuch für brandenburgische Landesgeschichte #45 (1994), pp. 233/234
- ISBN 978-3-412-20580-5, pg.63
Further reading
- Karl Friedrichs: Der Entmündigungsstreit im Königlichen Hause. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , 22 (1917), Sp. 988–991; Digitalisat (PDF) Online
- Andreas Pretzel, Volker Weiß: Ohnmacht und Aufbegehren: Homosexuelle Männer in der frühen Bundesrepublik. Männerschwarm Verlag; (October 2010), pp. 49–50.
- Peter Koblank: Die Befreiung der Sonder- und Sippenhäftlinge in Südtirol, Online-Edition Mythos Elser, 2006.