Oskar Michael Hans Karl Prinz von Preussen (born 6 May 1959) is a member of the

House of Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenbu ...

, the former ruling house of

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. He is the thirty-seventh ''Herrenmeister'' ("Master of the Knights" or Grand Master) of the Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg).

Life

Oskar is the second son of

Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia Wilhelm Karl Adalbert Erich Detloff Prinz von Preussen (30 January 1922, in Potsdam – 9 April 2007, in Holzminden) was the third son of Prince Oskar of Prussia, and the last surviving grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor. He was the ...

and of his wife Armgard von Veltheim. He is a great-grandson of

Wilhelm II , house = Hohenzollern , father = Frederick III, German Emperor , mother = Victoria, Princess Royal , religion = Lutheranism (Prussian United) , signature = Wilhelm II, German Emperor Signature-.svg Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor ...

, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia. In 1992 Oskar married Auguste Zimmermann von Siefart (born 1962). They have three children: * Oskar Julius Alvo Carlos (born 1993) * Wilhelmine Auguste Donata Maria Armgard (born 1995) * Albert Burchard Carl Marcus Nikolaus (born 1998) In 1995 Oskar was awarded a Ph.D. in history by the

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for his dissertation about the relationship between the Emperor Wilhelm II and the United States. He has since made a career as a media manager: he has been managing director of the German branch of Discovery Channel, founder of

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, new media manager of Hubert Burda Media Group and radio manager of

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. In 2017 Oskar was named Patron of the Altmark Festival, a music festival in Saxony-Anhalt.

Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)

Since 1999 Oskar has been ''Herrenmeister'' ( Grand Master) of the Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg). Both his father Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia and his grandfather

Prince Oskar of Prussia Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia (27 July 1888 – 27 January 1958) was the fifth son of German Emperor Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Biography Birth and family Prinz Oskar of Prussia w ...

had previously served as ''Herrenmeister''. Oskar has been active in promoting the numerous charitable and volunteer organisations belonging to the Order. In 2013 Oskar represented the Bailiwick at an ecumenical celebration in Berlin to observe the 900th anniversary of the

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. On June 25, 2021, he welcomed the

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, to the Johanniter Hospital in

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Works

* ''Wilhelm II. und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika: zur Geschichte seiner ambivalenten Beziehung.'' Dissertation. Freie Universität Berlin 1995. Ars Una, Neuried 1997, .

References

External links

*
Internetseite des Hauses Hohenzollern

Internetseite des „IBF Institut Berufsforschung Unternehmensplanung Medien e.V.“

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Life

Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)

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