Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872)

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Prince Albert
File:Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809 - 1872).jpg
Prince Albrecht of Prussia, steel engraving (around 1860)
Born (1809-10-04)4 October 1809
Königsberg
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Berlin
Burial Charlottenburg Palace Park Mausoleum, Berlin
Spouse Princess Marianne of the Netherlands
Rosalie von Rauch (morganatic)
Issue Charlotte, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen
Prince Albert
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Alexandrine
William, Count of Hohenau (morganatic)
Bernhard, Count of Hohenau (morganatic)
Full name
Frederick Henry Albert
House House of Hohenzollern
Father Frederick William III of Prussia
Mother Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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Prince Albert of Prussia (Frederick Henry Albert;[1] German: Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht; 4 October 1809, in Königsberg – 14 October 1872, in Berlin) was a Prussian colonel general. Albert was the fifth son and youngest child of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His parents had fled to East Prussia after the occupation of Berlin by Napoleon. Two of Albert's elder brothers were Frederick William IV, King of Prussia from 1840 till 1861, and William I, King of Prussia from 1861 to 1888 and German Emperor from 1871 until 1888.

Career

In 1819 he joined the Prussian Army as a lieutenant and held the rank of a general of cavalry in 1852. He took part in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War as a cavalry corps commander at the battles of Gitschin and Königgrätz. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he led a cavalry division at the battles of Wissembourg, Wörth and Sedan. He later joined the forces of his nephew Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the campaign against the Armée de la Loire.

After the war Albert was awarded the title of a Generaloberst. He is buried at the Charlottenburg Palace Park Mausoleum in Berlin.

He was the 74th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

Family

In The Hague, on 14 September 1830 Albert married Princess Marianne, daughter of King William I of the Netherlands. The marriage was dissolved on 28 March 1849. They had five children:

  • A son (Prinz-Albrecht-Palais, Wilhelmstraße, near Berlin, 4 December 1832). He was either stillborn or lived only a few hours.[2]
  • Frederika Louise Wilhelmine Elisabeth (b. Kamenz, 27 August 1840 - d. Kamenz, 9 October 1840).

In Berlin on 13 June 1853, Albert married secondly Rosalie Wilhelmine Johanna von Rauch, daughter of Gustav von Rauch, chief of the Prussian General Staff 1812-1813 and Prussian Minister of War 1837-1841. She was created Countess of Hohenau on 28 May 1853. They had two sons:

  • Georg Albrecht Wilhelm, Count of Hohenau (b. Albrechtsberg Castle, 25 April 1854 - d. Bad Flinsburg, 28 October 1930).
Albrechtsberg Castle, Dresden.

As this second union was considered a morganatic marriage, the couple temporarily had to avoid the Prussian court. Albert acquired a vineyard in Loschwitz near Dresden, Saxony, where he had a residence, Albrechtsberg Castle, erected in 1854.

Aftermath

In 1830 Albert had acquired a city palace in Berlin on Wilhelmstraße, then called Prinz-Albrecht-Palais. An adjacent street off Wilhelmstraße laid out in 1891 was named Prinz-Albrecht-Straße. After the Nazi Machtergreifung it became notorious as the seat of the Gestapo and the Reichsführer-SS. The Prinz-Albrecht-Palais itself from 1934 served as the headquarters of the SS Sicherheitsdienst under Reinhard Heydrich, from 1939 the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. In 1944 the building was heavily damaged by air raids and finally demolished in 1955. Since 1951 the street is named Niederkirchnerstraße, the area is now part of the Topography of Terror project.

Ancestry

Family of Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Frederick William I of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Prince Augustus William of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Frederick William II of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Duchess Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Duchess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Frederick William III of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Prince Albert of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Adolf Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Charles Louis Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Mirow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Princess Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (= 20)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Landgrave George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (= 21)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Landgravine Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. The Peerage – Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht Prinz von Preußen
  2. Genealogical database by Herbert Stoyan [retrieved 18 June 2014].

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