Guillaume of Prussia

Guillaume de Hohenzollern , born with Potsdam in 1882, died with Hechingen in 1951, said Kronprinz , was the Crown prince to the empire of Germany.

Wire of Guillaume II of Germany and Augusta-Victoria de Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenbourg. In 1905, it married Cécile de Meklembourg-Schwerin (1886 - 1954), (girl of Friedrich Franz III von Mecklenburg-Schwerin).

From this union were born:

Personality of Kronprinz

Prince of a morbid frivolity, but of a pleasant and sharp access. Infidel with his wife, it had leaning for the hairdressers or the dancers.

First World War

At the time of the First World War, it was ordering hussards death. In 1916, after the terrible combat which opposed French and German for the catch of the Fort of Be worth, the Commander Raynal and the French troops being under its command went to the Germans. At the time of this rendering, the French commander as it was the use at that time, gave his saber to a German officer. Prisoner, it was taken along to the district-general of Guillaume of Prussia, Kronprinz by respect for the French soldier wanted to return his saber to him, but this one remained untraceable. Honouring the military value with his adversary, Guillaume of Prussia decided to give to the heroic defender of the Fort of Are worth a dagger of German pioneer. Kronprinz ensured commandemant it of its troops the Death-Man close to Verdun and have during the conflict its General headquarter with Charleville in the Ardennes. Like his father, he abdicated in 1918. He was exiled on the island of Zuiderzee to the Netherlands.

The Interval wars

In 1923, it covered its uniform of the hussards again death. In the years 1930, Guillaume of Prussia attended much the Nazis. Kronprinz ensured the junction of the German body-francs and the war veterans of the Great War with the party National-Socialist. On the images of files dating from the years 1930, one distinguishes Guillaume from Prussia at the sides of Adolf Hitler and the celebrities of the Nazi party, arm-band with Croix-gammée with the arm. In 1933, after the nomination of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of the Germany, Kronprinz was handled by the Nazis who used it as appearing in order to raise the last hesitations of the Germans who were still wary of the policy preached by Adolf Hitler. At the time of the Night of the Long Knives (29 - June 30th 1934), the family members Hohenzollern residing in Germany were not worried, they remained discrete as one had asked them.

After the Second world war

Kronprinz resided in one of its castles in Germany, it had other mistresses. His wife from time to time came to visit him to give him what to provide for her needs. At the time of the occupation of Germany in 1945, the general Jean-Marie de Lattre de Tassigny being addressed to Guillaume of Prussia, tells him “Sir, you are lamentable”.

Genealogy

Guillaume of Prussia belongs to the first branch of the Maison of Hohenzollern. This line gave voters, kings, emperors with the Prussia, the Germany. Guillaume of Prussia is the grandfather of the current chief of the imperial House of Germany, the prince Georges Frederic of Prussia.

Sources

  • Genealogy of the kings and the princes of Jean-Charles Wolkmann Edict. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)

Internal bonds

  • Frederic III of Prussia (paternal grandfather)

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