Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia | |||||
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Born | Marmorpalais, near Potsdam, Prussia | 4 July 1906||||
Died | 26 May 1940 Nivelles, Belgium | (aged 33)||||
Burial | 29 May 1940 | ||||
Spouse |
Dorothea von Salviati
(m. 1933) | ||||
Issue | Princess Felicitas Princess Christa | ||||
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House | Hohenzollern | ||||
Father | Wilhelm, German Crown Prince | ||||
Mother | Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Prussian Royalty |
House of Hohenzollern |
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Wilhelm II |
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Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia (4 July 1906 – 26 May 1940) was the eldest child of
Early life and childhood
Wilhelm was born on 4 July 1906 at the Hohenzollern family's private summer residence,
The selection of a nanny for Wilhelm and his younger brother, Louis Ferdinand (born in 1907) caused considerable distress within the family.[2]
On his tenth birthday in 1916, Wilhelm was made a
After graduating from secondary school, Wilhelm went on to study at the Universities of Königsberg, Munich and Bonn. In 1926, while a student at the University of Bonn, Wilhelm joined the Borussia Corps, a student organization of which his father, grandfather, and other members of the Prussian royal family were members.[4]
Marriage and children
While a student at Bonn, Wilhelm fell in love with a fellow student, Dorothea von Salviati (10 September 1907 – 7 May 1972). Her parents were Alexander Hermann Heinrich August von Salviati and Helene "Ella" Crasemann (of the well-established Hamburg merchant family, Crasemann).[5] Her maternal grandfather was the Hamburg parliamentarian Gustav August Rudolph Crasemann.
Wilhelm's grandfather did not approve of the marriage of a member of the minor nobility with the apparent in line to the German throne. At the time, the former Kaiser still believed in the possibility of a Hohenzollern restoration,
However, Wilhelm was determined to marry Dorothea. He renounced any rights to the succession for himself and his future children in 1933.[8][9] Wilhelm and Dorothea married on 3 June 1933 in Bonn. They had two daughters. In 1940[date missing], the ex-Emperor recognized the marriage as dynastic and the girls were accorded the style of Princesses of Prussia,[10] although their father was not restored to his former place in the putative line of succession,
- Princess Felicitas Cecilie Alexandrine Helene Dorothea of Prussia, (7 June 1934 – 1 August 2009),[11] married Dinnies von der Osten (1929–1998) on 12 September 1958 and they were divorced in 1972, with issue. She married secondly Jörg von Nostitz-Wallwitz (b. 1937), with issue.
- Princess Christa Friederike Alexandrine Viktoria of Prussia, (31 October 1936) she married Peter von Assis Liebes (1926–1967), son of Martin Liebes and Countess Clementine von Montgelas on 24 March 1960, without issue.
Military services
During the Weimar Republic, Wilhelm inadvertently caused a public scandal by attending Army manoeuvres in the uniform of the old Imperial First Foot Guards without first seeking government approval. The commander of the Reichswehr, Hans von Seeckt, was forced to resign as a result.[12] The Oster conspiracy of 1938 sought to restore Wilhelm to the throne.
At the beginning of
Death and reaction
In May 1940, Wilhelm took part in the
Shortly after Wilhelm's death, a decree known as the
Ancestry
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References
- ^ Potsdam tourism sights - Marmorpalais
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7509-3059-8.
- ^ Wilhelm von Preußen (1906–1940) - Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie.
- New York Times. 21 November 1909. p. C2. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
- ^ "Dorothea von Salviati, * 1907 | Geneall.net".
- New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
- ISBN 978-0-312-30557-4.
- OCLC 17370791.
- ^ boys clothing: German royalty -- Wilhelm Hohenzollern
- ^ Genealogy of the Royal Family of Prussia: HRH Prince Wilhelm and his descendants at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 October 2009)
- ^ Trauer um IKH Prinzessin Felicitas von Preussen (1934 - 2009)
- ^ "Hans von Seeckt." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 6 July 2008 [1].
- ^ a b c "Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen (in German)" (in German). Preussen.de. Retrieved 12 July 2008.
- ISBN 0-19-516133-5