Michael Prinz von Preussen

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Michael Prinz von Preussen
Born(1940-03-22)22 March 1940
Berlin, Nazi Germany
Died3 April 2014(2014-04-03) (aged 74)
Burial11 April 2014
Hohenzollern Castle, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Spouse
Jutta Jörn
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(m. 1966; div. 1982)​
Brigitte Wegner von Dallwitz
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(m. 1982)​
IssueMichaela
Nataly
Names
Wilhelm Heinrich Michael Louis Ferdinand Friedrich Franz Wladimir
HouseHohenzollern
FatherLouis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
MotherGrand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Wilhelm Heinrich Michael Louis Ferdinand Friedrich Franz Wladimir Prinz von Preussen (22 March 1940 – 3 April 2014) was a descendant of the

Wilhelm II was the German Emperor and King of Prussia
until 1918. Although Kaiser Wilhelm died in exile and his family was stripped of much of its wealth and recognition of its rank and titles by the German Republic, Michael spent nearly all of his life in Germany.

Biography

Michael Prince of Prussia, his wife Brigitte, and his daughters

Michael was the second son of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. Both of his parents lived their early years as members of ruling imperial families that were deposed before they reached adulthood,[1] leaving them to adjust to life in straitened circumstances, in exile or under surveillance, and sometimes in flight from their ancestral nations.[2] The Kaiser lived in the Netherlands under banishment from Germany when Michael was born. However, by the time Michael was ten years old, both his great-grandfather and grandfather had died, leaving his father as the Hohenzollern pater familias, whom German monarchists recognized as their rightful emperor and king.[2] Michael was born in Berlin, but grew up in Bremen. He studied in Freiburg and worked later for several multinational corporations. He also wrote several history books.

Having made the decision to contract a

Gießen, 27 January 1943), an administrative assistant.[2]
The couple had two daughters together prior to divorcing on 18 March 1982.

  • Michaela Marie Princess von Preussen (born 5 March 1967); married, on 14 February 2000, Jürgen Wessoly, with whom she has two children.
  • Nataly Alexandra Caroline Princess von Preussen (born 13 January 1970,
    Frankfurt am Main
    )

On 23 June 1982, he married secondly in

aeronautical engineer Richard Wegner von Dallwitz (1873–1945),[3] also known as Richard von Dallwitz-Wegner.[4] The couple had no children.[1]

Along with his elder brother, Michael eventually repudiated the implications of his renunciation claiming, in a lawsuit against his nephew Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, that the forfeiture of an equal share with his siblings in the family's remaining fortune, the bulk of which had been placed in a trust for William II's heir, was discriminatory.[5]

Michael was the godfather of Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen. He died on 3 April 2014, aged 74.[6] Two years later, his widow, Brigitte, died by suicide.[7]

Books in German

  • Ein Preußenprinz zu sein, Munich 1986
  • Auf den Spuren der deutschen Monarchien, Cologne 2008
  • Zu Gast bei Preußens Königen, Cologne 2009
  • Die Staufer: Herrscher einer glanzvollen Epoche, Cologne 2010
  • Die Preußen am Rhein: Burgen, Schlösser, Rheinromantik, Cologne 2011
  • Friedrich der Große, Cologne 2011

Ancestry

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-3-7980-0843-4
    .
  2. ^ a b c Valynseele, Joseph. Les Prétendants aux Trônes d'Europe. Saintard de la Rochelle. 1967. France. pp. 47-51, 58, 61-63, 65
  3. ^ Bibliography of Aeronautics. 329, Dallwitz, R. Wegner von. Die beste Tragdeckform und der Luftwiderstand. Rostock i. M., C. J. Volckmami, E. Nachfolger (Ewette), 1910, pp. 1-72, ill. Noted in: Wien.
  4. ^ Wielen, Roland und Wielen, Ute, August Kopff, the Theory of Relativity, and Two Letters from Albert Einstein to Kopff, The Archives of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg 2013, p. 181 (German).
  5. ^ Welt. Oswald, Andreas. Der Taggespiegel Adelshochzeit in Potsdam: Wenn das der Kaiser wüsste. 26 August 2011. retrieved 11 May 2016.
  6. ^ Prinz Michael ist tot (in German)
  7. ^ Brigitta von Preußen - Die Trauer war zu groß: Sie hat sich das Leben genommen - website of German magazine Bunte

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