Carl
Eduard Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha K.H.
(19.07.1884 - 06.03.1954)
place of birth: Claremont House, Esher England
reign: 30.7.1900 - 14.11.1918
Herzogtum
Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha: Herzog,
General
der Infanterie
A
grandson of Queen Victoria, Carl Eduard was born in Esher,
Surrey to Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Princess Helena of
Waldeck and Pyrmont. He was first cousins with King George V of the
United Kingdom and Prussian Kaiser Wilhelm II. Carl Eduard served in
the German Armed Forces as a general during the Great War and was the
Chef of Infanterie-Regiment Nr.95. He later functioned as an Obergruppenfuehrer
and member of the National Socialist's Brownshirts organization. The
Duke was a Nazi Party Reichstag member from 1937 to 1945.
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