Friedrich Karl Ludwig Prinz von Hessen H.
(01.05.1868 - 28.05.1940)
place of birth:  Gut Panker, Holstein

Kurfürstentum Hessen:  Prinz,  General der Infanterie

                            


Friedrich Karl Prinz von Hessen was the son of the titular Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim and Anna von Preussen. He was the heir to the throne of Kurfürstentum Hessen (Electorate of Hesse), an area annexed into Prussia following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Friedrich Karl was also the brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II. through marriage to Princess Margarethe. Friedrich Karl was the nominal King of Finnland for a couple months near the end of the year 1918. He served of the Head of the House of Hessen-Kassel from 1925 until his death from lingering wartime wounds.

  
  

General der Infanterie  24.12.1914
Schwarzer Adler-Orden  

Dienststellung  Chef d.Inf.R.81., u. àls d.GardeDrag.R..
    
 
 

  
 

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