Friedrich Karl Alexander (Hohenzollern) von Hohenzollern (1801 - 1883)

Born 29 Jun 1801 in Charlottenburg, bei Berlin, Preußen

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Died 21 Jan 1883 at age 81 in Berlin, Preußen,

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Karl Hohenzollern was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Friedrich Karl Alexander (Frederick Charles Alexander) known as Karl or Carl (Charles), was the sixth child and third son, of Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia, and his wife Luise, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and was born in the Royal Palace (Königliche Schloss) at Charlottenburg, near Berlin on 29 June 1801. He was baptised in the Castle Chapel on 1 August 1801.^[1]

Like most Prussian Princes, he joined the army and was eventually General Field Marshal (General-feldzeugmeister) and Head of the Artillery. He was also appointed in 1853 as Grand Master of the Order of St John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg) (Herrenmeister des St. Johanniterorders der Balley Brandenburg).^[1]

In the conservative Prussian court, Karl was ultraconservative, and during the revolutions of 1848, he had tried to deprive his two elder brothers, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, and Wilhelm (later Wilhelm I) of their succession rights to the Prussian throne, and instead make himself regent for this nephew Friedrich (later Friedrich III).^[2]

His brother Friedrich Wilhelm IV, had apparently stated that "if [the four brothers] had been sons of a petty official, I should have become an architect, Wilhelm a sergeant-major, Charles would have gone to prison, and Albrecht would have been a ne'er-do-well"^[3]

He had married 26 May 1827 at Charlottenburg Palace, Marie Luise Alexandrine, Princess of Saxe-Weimar.

They had three children;

1. Prinz Friedrich Karl Nikolaus, born 20 March 1828;
2. Prinzessin Marie Luise Anna, born 1 March 1829;
3. Prinzessin Marie Anna Friederike, born 17 May 1836.^[1]

Karl, died at the Palais am Wilhelmsplatz in Berlin on 21 January 1883, and was buried in the Kirche zu Nikolskoie near Potsdam on 25 January 1883.^[1]

For further information, see;

In English: Wikipedia: Prince Charles of Prussia

In German: Wikipedia: Carl von Preußen

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Grossmann, Julius, Ernst Berner, Georg Schuster, and Karl Theodor Zingeler. Genealogie Des Gesamthauses Hohenzollern. Berlin: W. Moeser Buchhandlung, 1905. p. 47. Digitised by Google Books (http://books.google.com.au/ : downloaded 27 March 2010)
2. ↑ Pakula, Hannah. 1996. An uncommon woman: The Empress Frederick. London: Phoenix. p. 104.
3. ↑ Pakula, p. 105, citing Prinz von Bülow, Memoir, 1897-1903, p. 17

See also:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charles_of_Prussia