Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (german: Joachim Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold; 14 November 1865 – 13 September 1931) was a son of
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
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and
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
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, married in 1854.
Family
On 24 June 1889 he married in Berlin
(8 April 1866 in Kiel – 28 April 1952 in Bad Nauheim), a sister of Empress
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, wife of Emperor
Wilhelm II
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.
Military career
At age 10 in 1875
Kadett
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There are basically two ways to become officer as described below.
Specialist Officers (SO)
Direct recruitment ...
, in 1885 Premierlieutnant (
Oberleutnant), 1888 Rittmeister (
Hauptmann
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), 1890
Major
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and 1893
Oberst
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.
In the same year promoted to
Generalmajor
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Austria
Belgium
Denmark
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, commander of the
Gardes du Corps
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, a
Cuirassiers
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regiment of the
1st Guards Cavalry Brigade.
Colonel-in-Chief of the Austrian
k.u.k.
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Husarenregimentes Nr. 2 Friedrich Leopold, Prinz von Preußen (since 17. April 1742).
1898
Generalleutnant
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Austria
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, leader of Kavallerieinspektion Potsdam. In 1902
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. Served during
Russian-Japanese War
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(1904–1905) as counselor in the Russian HQ. 1907 Generalinspektor of the Army, 10 September 1910
Generaloberst
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.
Other
Prinz Friedrich Leopold was the last patron of the Prussian
freemasons from the
House of Hohenzollern
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. 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
The Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (german: Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen, pl, Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska) was a province of Prussia from 1922 to 1938. Posen-West Prussia was established in 1922 as a province of the Free ...
. On 21 June 1924, possession was confirmed by the
Reichsgericht. He died there in 1931.
Honours
German honours
[''Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen'' (1918), Genealog]
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Foreign honours
Ancestry
Literature
* Zivkovic, Georg: ''Heer- und Flottenführer der Welt''. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1971 S. 427–428
References
External links
* http://www.portrait-hille.de/genealog/tabln/HZ_Koe2.htm
at www.kuk-wehrmacht.de
at www.preussenweb.de
at www.schroederniko.de – Photo of Prinz Friedrich Leopold von Preußen
at www.ju-f13.de
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1865 births
1931 deaths
Prussian princes
Field marshals of the German Empire
Field marshals of Prussia
House of Hohenzollern
Military personnel from Berlin
Colonel generals of Prussia
19th-century Prussian military personnel
Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class
Recipients of the Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin), 1st class
2
2
Annulled Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Star of Romania
Knights of the Order of Charles XIII
Recipients of the Order of the Sword
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree