Prince Alexander | |||||
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Prince Alexander of Prussia | |||||
Born | 26 December 1912 | ||||
Died | 12 June 1985 Wiesbaden, Germany |
(aged 72)||||
Spouse | Armgard Weygand | ||||
Issue | Stephan Alexander | ||||
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House | Hohenzollern | ||||
Father | Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia | ||||
Mother | Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg |
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Alexander Ferdinand Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Karl Feodor |
Prince Alexander of Prussia (Alexander Ferdinand Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Karl Feodor; 26 December 1912 – 12 June 1985) was the only son of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
Prince Alexander of Prussia was born on 26 December 1912 to Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. August Wilhelm was a younger son of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
His parents divorced in 1920 and his mother remarried less than two years later; custody of the young prince was awarded to Alexander's father.
Alexander attended the 1932 wedding of the Swedish prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten with Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the former duchy of Coburg; it was the first time that a member of the German imperial family had entered the duchy since it became a republic, or specifically a part of Bavaria in November 1919 after the ruling duke, Carl Eduard, had ended his reign on 14 November 1918.
As of November 1939, Prince Alexander was a first lieutenant in the Air Force Signal Corps, stationed in Wiesbaden.
Like his father, who became a prominent supporter of the Nazi party, Alexander also became an early supporter. Prince August had secret hopes that Chancellor Adolf Hitler "would one day hoist him or his son Alexander up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser". The support father and son gave to the emerging party caused strong disagreements among the Hohenzollerns, with Wilhelm II urging them both to leave the Nazi party.