Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia
Joachim Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold Prinz von Preußen (14 November 1865 in Berlin – 13 September 1931 Krojanke manor, Landkreis Flatow, Posen-West Prussia) was a son of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, married in 1854.
Family
On 24 June 1889 he married in Berlin Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (8 April 1866 in Kiel – 28 April 1952 in Bad Nauheim), a sister of Empress Auguste Viktoria, wife of Emperor Wilhelm II.
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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Princess Viktoria Margarete Elisabeth Marie Adelheid Ulrike | 17 April 1890 | 9 September 1923 | married Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz (1879–1942) |
Prince Joachim Viktor Wilhelm Leopold Friedrich Sigismund | 17 December 1891 | 6 July 1927 | married HSH Princess Marie Luise Dagmar Bathildis Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (10 February 1897-1 October 1938) |
Tassilo Wilhelm Humbert Leopold Friedrich Karl | 6 April 1893 | 6 April 1917 | known as Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, fell in World War I. |
Prince Franz Joseph Oskar Ernst Patrick Friedrich Leopold | 27 August 1895 | 27 November 1959 | |
Military career
At age 10 in 1875 Kadett, in 1885 Premierlieutnant (Oberleutnant), 1888 Rittmeister (Hauptmann), 1890 Major and 1893 Oberst.
In the same year promoted to Generalmajor, commander of the Gardes du Corps, a Cuirassiers regiment of the 1st Guards Cavalry Brigade. Colonel-in-Chief of the Austrian k.u.k. Husarenregimentes Nr. 2 Friedrich Leopold, Prinz von Preußen (since 17. April 1742).
1898 Generalleutnant, leader of Kavallerieinspektion Potsdam. In 1902 General der Kavallerie. Served during Russian-Japanese War (1904–1905) as counselor in the Russian HQ. 1907 Generalinspektor of the Army, 10 September 1910 Generaloberst.
Other
Prinz Friedrich Leopold was the last patron of the Prussian freemasons from the House of Hohenzollern. A member since 1889 in "Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröte", in 1894 he became patron of all three lodges. During the November Revolution 1918, he hoisted a red flag on his hunting lodge Glienicke near Berlin.
He also owned a large manor at Krojanke, after 1918 located in Posen-West Prussia. On 21 June 1924, possession was confirmed by the Reichsgericht. He died there in 1931.
Honours
He received the following orders and decorations:
German honours[1]
Prussia:- Knight of the Black Eagle, with Collar
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, with Crown
- Knight of the Prussian Crown, 1st Class
- Grand Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, with Cross and Swords
- Iron Cross, 1st Class
- Service Award Cross
Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class with Swords Anhalt:- Grand Cross of Albert the Bear, 1882;[2] with Swords, 1914-1918
- Friedrich Cross
Baden:[3]- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1888
- Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1888
Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1889[4] Brunswick: Grand Cross of Henry the Lion, 1888; with Swords, May 1906[5] Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1885[6] Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order Mecklenburg:- Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Crown in Ore
- Military Merit Cross, 1st Class (Schwerin)
- Cross for Distinction in War (Strelitz)
Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Golden Crown, 18 February 1878;[7] with Swords Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1888;[8] with Swords, 1914-1918 Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown Waldeck and Pyrmont: Cross of Merit for Civil and Military Performance, 1st Class Württemberg:- Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1886[9]
- Grand Cross of the Military Merit Order
- Grand Cross of the Friedrich Order
Foreign honours[10]
Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1889[11] Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Royal Order of Leopold Kingdom of Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer Kingdom of Italy: Knight of the Annunciation Empire of Japan: Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum Principality of Montenegro: Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion Persian Empire: Order of the August Portrait Kingdom of Portugal:- Grand Cross of the Sash of the Two Orders
- Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword
Kingdom of Romania: Grand Cross of the Star of Romania Russian Empire:- Knight of St. Andrew
- Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky
- Knight of the White Eagle
- Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
- Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class
Kingdom of Serbia: Grand Cross of the White Eagle Siam: Grand Cross of the White Elephant Spain: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, 18 May 1907[12] Sweden-Norway:- Knight of the Seraphim, 4 September 1893[13]
- Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, 4 September 1893[14]
United Kingdom: Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 29 September 1899[15]
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Literature
- Zivkovic, Georg: Heer- und Flottenführer der Welt. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1971 S. 427-428 ISBN 3-7648-0666-4
References
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen (1918), Genealogy p. 4
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch für des Herzogtum Anhalt (1894), "Herzoglicher Haus-Orden Albrecht des Bären" p. 17
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1896), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 63, 77
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Bayern (1906), "Königliche-Orden" p. 9
- Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Herzogtums Braunschweig für das Jahr 1908. Braunschweig 1908. Meyer. p. 9
- Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1890), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 46
- Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Oldenburg0: 1879. Schulze. 1879. p. 34.
- Staatshandbuch ... Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1900), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 16
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1907), "Königliche Orden" pp. 28
- Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen (1908), Genealogy p. 3
- "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- "Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1930. p. 221. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1905, p. 440, retrieved 2018-01-06 – via runeberg.org
- Anton Anjou (1900). "Utländske Riddare". Riddare af Konung Carl XIII:s orden: 1811–1900: biografiska anteckningar (in Swedish). p. 179.
- The London Gazette, issue 27125, p. 6114
External links
- http://www.portrait-hille.de/genealog/tabln/HZ_Koe2.htm
- Österreichische Husaren at www.kuk-wehrmacht.de
- Kavallerie-Regiment1 at www.preussenweb.de
- Geschichte1 at www.schroederniko.de - Photo of Prinz Friedrich Leopold von Preußen
- Die Junkers F 13 at www.ju-f13.de