Prince
Christopher
Ernest Augustus
Hessen-Kassel
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
Ancestors 
Son of Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin Hessen-Kassel
and Margarethe Beatrice Feodora (Hohenzollern) Preussen
Husband of
Sophie (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Hesse-Kassel Hanover
— married
15 Dec 1930 in Kronberg im Taunus, Hochtaunuskreis, Hessen, Deutschland
Descendants 
Father of
Christina Margarethe (Hesse-Kassel) of Yugoslavia, [private daughter (1930s - unknown)] and Karl Adolf Andreas Hessen-Kassel
Died
at age 42
in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italia
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Jan 2017
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Prince Christopher Hessen-Kassel was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.
Biography
Prince Christoph Ernst August was born in 1901. He was the son of Friedrich Karl Hessen-Kassel.
Prince Christoph was a director in the Third Reich's Ministry of Air Forces, Commander of the Air Reserves, and held the rank of Oberführer in the SS.[1] On October 7, 1943, he was killed in an airplane accident in the Apennine Mountains near Forlì, Italy.[1]
Sources
- Wikipedia contributors, "Prince Christoph of Hesse," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Christoph_of_Hesse (accessed January 7, 2017).
- This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q2314771, en:Wikipedia
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christopher by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christopher by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Philip (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Mountbatten
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Mitochondrial DNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup H1af, MitoYDNA ID Z10699 [compare] - Alexandra Feodorovna (Hesse-Darmstadt) Romanov :
Mitochondrial DNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H1af2, MitoYDNA ID Z10396 [compare]
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~0.39%
Belinda Dettmann :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A716571 [compare]
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