Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia Prussian prince (1883–1942)
Prince Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl of Prussia (7 July 1883 – 8 December 1942) was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg . He was born and died in Potsdam , Germany.
Early life
Prince Eitel Friedrich was born on 7 July 1883 as the second son of the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , and his first wife, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein . He was born in the Marmorpalais of Potsdam in the Province of Brandenburg , where his parents resided until his father acceded to the throne as Emperor Wilhelm II in 1888. He spent his childhood with his siblings at the New Palace , also in Potsdam , and his school days with his brothers at the Prinzenhaus in Plön in his mother's ancestral Schleswig-Holstein .
On 27 February 1906, Prince Eitel married Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (2 February 1879 Oldenburg – 29 March 1964 Westerstede ) in Berlin. They were divorced on 20 October 1926 on the grounds of her adultery before the war. They had no children.
In 1907, it was reported that Member of the Reichstag Otto Arendt had proposed the elevation of Alsace-Lorraine to a grand duchy within the empire, with Eitel Friedrich as monarch; however, while the Kaiser did express interest, ultimately nothing came of the plan.[ 1]
World War I
Prince Eitel Friedrich on the far left telephoning from a trench on the field of north Poland in 1915 Raised at the cadet corps of Plön Castle , Prince Eitel was in the front line from the beginning of World War I and was wounded at Bapaume , where he commanded the Prussian First Foot Guards. He temporarily relinquished command to Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal , but returned to duty before the end of the year. The following year, he was transferred to the Eastern Front. During the summer of 1915, he was out in a field in Russia when he had a chance encounter with Manfred von Richthofen , who had just crashed with his superior officer, Count Holck. The two men were hiding in a nearby tree line from what they thought was the advancing Russian army and who turned out to be the grenadiers, guardsmen, and officers of Prince Eitel.
After the war, he was engaged in monarchist circles and Der Stahlhelm [ 2]
Titles
From 1907 to 1926, he was Master of the Knights (Herrenmeister ) of the Order of St. John (Johanniterorden ). He received the Pour le Mérite order in 1915. His body is buried at the Antique Temple in Sanssouci Park , Potsdam.
[ 3] Hauptmann (captain) and commander of the Leibkompagnie (Life-company), 1. Garderegiment zu Fuß (1st Regiment of Foot Guards)
à la suite , Grenadierregiment König Friedrich Wilhelm IV.(1. Pommersches) Nr. 2à la suite , 1. Gardelandwehrregiment (Guard Reserve Regiment)Hauptmann (captain), Austria-Hungary K.u.K. Infantry Regiment "Wilhelm I., Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen" Nr. 34
Hauptmann (captain), Saxon Army
à la suite , 7. Königsinfanterieregiment (King's Infantry Regiment) Nr. 106First Brigade of Imperial Guards, commander, 1914–15[ 4]
Orders and decorations
German decorations[ 3]
Prussia Knight of the Black Eagle , 7 July 1893 ;[ 5] 17 January 1902 [ 6] Grand Cross of the Red Eagle , with Crown, 7 July 1893 Knight of the Prussian Crown , 1st Class, 7 July 1893 [ 5] Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern , 7 July 1893 [ 5]
34th Master of Knights of the Johanniter Order , 1907–1926
Founder of the Cross of the Mount of Olives , 24 December 1909
Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st ClassesPour le Mérite (military), 22 March 1915 ; with Oak Leaves, 14 May 1915 [ 7] Hohenzollern : Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern , 1st Class with SwordsBaden :
Bavaria Brunswick War Merit Cross Ernestine duchies :
Hamburg : Hanseatic Cross Hesse and by Rhine : Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order , 7 September 1904 [ 10] Mecklenburg :
Oldenburg :
Saxony Württemberg : Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown , 1899 [ 11]
Foreign decorations[ 7]
Austria-Hungary : Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen , 1900 [ 12] China : Order of the Double Dragon , Class I Grade IIDenmark : Knight of the Elephant , 19 November 1906 [ 13] Greece : Grand Cross of the Redeemer Italy Knight of the Annunciation , 27 August 1902 [ 14] Japan Order of the Chrysanthemum , 21 May 1908 [ 15] Montenegro Order of Prince Danilo I Netherlands : Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion Norway : Grand Cross of St. Olav , with Collar, 15 December 1906 [ 16] Ottoman Empire :
Persia : Order of the Lion and the Sun , 1st ClassPortugal Romania Russia Knight of St. Andrew , 1910 Siam :
Spain Knight of the Military Merit Order , 3rd ClassSweden : Knight of the Seraphim , 1 December 1904 [ 18] United Kingdom Royal Victorian Order , 1 July 1904 [ 19]
Honours Two ships were named after Prince Eitel, the passenger ship Prince Eitel Friedrich (1901) and the Reich postal steamer Prince Eitel Friedrich
Ancestry
Ancestors of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia
References
^ "FATE OF ALSACE-LORRAINE" . New York Times ^ Tucholsky: Awrumele Schabbesdeckel und Prinz Eitel-Friedrich von Hohenzollern at www.textlog.de^ a b Handbuch über den Königlich Preußischen Hof und Staat (1918), Genealogy p.1^ The American Library Annual ^ a b c "Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (supp.)" , Preussische Ordens-Liste (in German), 1 , Berlin: 7 , 80 , 129 , 1886 – via hathitrust.org^ "Schwarzer Adler-orden" , Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), Berlin, 1895, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org{{citation }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )^ a b "Wilhelm Eitel-Friedrich Christian Karl Prinz von Preußen, K.H." the Prussian Machine . Retrieved 17 March 2021 .^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1910), "Großherzogliche Orden" p. 41 ^ "Königliche Orden", Hof- und – Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern (in German), Munich: Druck and Verlag, 1914, p. 10 – via hathitrust.org ^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 6 – via hathitrust.org ^ "Königliche Orden", Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg , Stuttgart: Landesamt, 1907, p. 31 ^ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine ^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2 ^ Italy. Ministero dell'interno (1920). Calendario generale del regno d'Italia 57 . ^ 刑部芳則 (2017). 明治時代の勲章外交儀礼 (PDF) (in Japanese). 明治聖徳記念学会紀要. p. 150. ^ Norway (1908), "Den kongelige norske Sanct Olavs Orden" , Norges Statskalender (in Norwegian), pp. 869– 870, retrieved 17 September 2021 ^ Royal Thai Government Gazette (6 June 1902). "ส่งเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์ไปพระราชทานเจ้าต่างประเทศ" (PDF) (in Thai). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-08 .^ Sveriges statskalender , retrieved 2018-01-06 – via runeberg.org^ Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England , I , London, p. 430
Sources
Schench, G. Handbuch über den Königlich Preuβischen Hof und Staat fur das Jahr 1908 . Berlin, Prussia, 1907.
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