Prince Augustus of Prussia

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Prince Augustus
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An 1817 portrait of Prince Augustus standing next to the portrait of Juliette Récamier, by Franz Krüger
Born (1779-09-19)19 September 1779
Friedrichsfelde
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Bromberg
Burial Staats- und Domchor Berlin
House House of Hohenzollern
Father Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia
Mother Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich August of Prussia (19 September 1779 - 19 July 1843), known in English as Prince Augustus, was a Prussian general. Born on Friedrichsfelde Palace, he was the youngest son of Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, the brother of King Frederick the Great, and Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

Military career

Augustus joined the Prussian army as a young man, earning the rank of captain by eighteen years old. In 1803, he became a major and was granted an infantry battalion of his own. Three years later, now a lieutenant colonel, he and his battalion took part in the Battle of Auerstedt. His brother, Prince Louis Ferdinand, had been killed by the French army under Napoleon I four days earlier. Augustus himself was captured and held by the French until 1807.

In March 1808, his cousin, King Frederick William III of Prussia, made him brigadier general. The Prince spent the next five years reorganizing the Prussian artillery together with Gerhard von Scharnhorst. Seven years after the failure of the Prussian army at Auerstedt, the Prince distinguished himself at the Battle of Leipzig. He continued his campaign against Napoleon throughout 1814. In the winter 1814-1815, Augustus attended the Congress of Vienna. He moved to the north of France in June 1818 and then back to Berlin after the war had ended.

He spent his last years inspecting artillery units in various garrison towns. He died suddenly in Bromberg during one such trip, and was buried in Staats- und Domchor Berlin.

Relationships & Estate

Although he was one of the richest landowners in Prussia, his estates were reverted to the Crown upon his death, since he never married or left any legitimate heirs. The mother of his eldest children was his first mistress, Karoline Friederike Wichmann, with whom he cohabited from 1805 until 1817. Their union produced four children. She was ennobled as Baroness von Waldenburg. His second extramarital relationship was with Auguste Arend, later ennobled as Baroness von Prillwitz. It began in 1818, lasted until her death in 1834 and produced seven children.

Ancestry

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Family of Prince Augustus of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Frederick I of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Countess Luise Henriette of Nassau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Frederick William I of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Sophia of the Palatinate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. George I of Great Britain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Sophia of the Palatinate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Sophia Dorothea of Celle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Eleonore d'Esmier d'Olbreuse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Prince Augustus of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Frederick I of Prussia = 8
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Frederick William I of Prussia = 4
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Sophia Charlotte of Hanover = 9
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. George I of Great Britain = 10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover = 5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Sophia Dorothea of Celle = 11