Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846)
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Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt |
Prince Frederick Henry Charles of Prussia (German: Friedrich Heinrich Karl; 30 December 1781, Berlin - 12 July 1846, Rome) was a Prussian prince and army officer.
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Life
Henry was a son of
Auerstadt he was loaned a horse by Gerhard von Scharnhorst after Henry's horse was killed under him. In 1807 he was made commander of the "von Schöning" Infantry Regiment. In the 1813 campaign he was on the headquarters staff of the Russian general Peter Wittgenstein
. On 31 May 1815 he was promoted to General of Infantry.
From 1800 until the dissolution of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg in 1811, Henry served as co-adjutor of
Order of St. Vladimir
.
On 12 August 1817 Henry visited the
George III of the United Kingdom at his christening in Berlin. Later in 1819 Henry moved to Rome, only gaining permission to go from Frederick William III after Henry (always in poor health) fainted at a soirée. He spent his last twenty years bedridden, with major general Friedrich Wilhelm von Lepel (1774-1840) and from 1845 Helmuth von Moltke
as his adjutant.
He is buried in the
Berlin-Kreuzberg was named after him from 7 April 1849 until 21 August 2022 when it was renamed Rio-Reiser-Platz.[2]
Ancestry
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Sources
- Richard von Meerheimb: Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Prinz von Preußen. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, S. 569 f.
- Heinrich Haeser: Geschichte christlicher Kranken-Pflege und Pflegerschaften. W. Hertz, 1857, S. 55 f.
- Leopold von Zedlitz: Der preussische Staat in allen seinen Beziehungen. August Hirschwald, 1835, S. 149
- Theodor Fontane: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, Band 1 (Grafschaft Ruppin) „Ruppiner Garnison“ – Das Regiment Prinz Ferdinand (bei Auerstedt)
- Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum, Band 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, S. 265-266
References
- ^ C. C. C. Gretschel, Friedrich Bülau: Geschichte des Sächsischen Volkes und Staates. Band 3, Reinhold Beyer, 1853, S. 410.
- ^ Heinrichplatz. In: Straßennamenlexikon des Luisenstädtischen Bildungsvereins (on Kaupert)
- ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768., pp. 17 (father's side), 69 (mother's side)
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