Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851)
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| Born | 3 July 1783 Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 September 1851 (aged 68) Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg (m. 1804; died 1846) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Prussia (3 July 1783 – 28 September 1851) was the son of Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt .
LifePrince William was the fourth and youngest son of King St. Petersburg . Later, he had a prominent role in the transformation of Prussia and its army.
During the War of the Sixth Coalition of 1813, he was stationed in Blücher's headquarters. In the Battle of Lützen (1813) on 2 May, he commanded the reserve cavalry in the left wing of the army and during the Battle of Leipzig, he negotiated the union of the Northern army with Blucher's. Later he led the 8th Brigade of the Yorck's army corps on the Rhine and distinguished himself by bravery and military skills at the battles of Château-Thierry, Laon and outside Paris. After the Riesengebirge mountains.
From 1824 to 1829 he was governor of the Confederate Fortress at Mainz; from 1830 to 1831 he was governor-general of the Rhine Province and Westphalia. In this capacity, on 20 September 1831 he opened the first rail line on German soil from Hinsbeck via the Deilbach valley to Nierenhof. Until then, the line had been called Deilthaler Eisenbahn ("Deil Valley Railway"); after its opening it was allowed to call itself Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. In March 1834 he was appointed general of cavalry and re-appointed as governor of the federal fortress at Mainz. He should not be confused with his nephew of the same name, the future emperor William I , who was governor of the same fortress in 1854.
After the death of his wife, Marie Anna, on 14 April 1846, he withdrew from public life at his Fischbach castle. Marriage and issueHe married his first cousin Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (his mother's sister), together they had nine children:
HonoursHe received the following orders and decorations:[1]
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