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Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872)

Prince Albert
Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809 - 1872).jpg
Prince Albrecht of Prussia, steel engraving (around 1860)
Born (1809-10-04)4 October 1809
Königsberg
Died 14 October 1872(1872-10-14) (aged 63)
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
Alexandrine, Duchess William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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
Full name
Frederick Henry Albert

Prince Albert of Prussia (Frederick Henry Albert; 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.

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.


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