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Friedrich Karl Nikolaus Prinz von Preußen K.H.
(20.03.1828 - 15.06.1885)
place of birth: Berlin - Schloß Klein
Königreich Preußen:
Preußischer
Prinz, OBH, Generalfeldmarschall
Prussian imperial field marshal who was a field army
commander during the Franco-Prussian War
1870-71. Friedrich Karl was born to Prince Karl von Preußen
and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, also the grandson of Friedrich
Wilhelm III. The prince had four daughters and one son with his wife
Princess Maria Anna von Anhalt. Friedrich Karl began his military
training as a teenager under the watchful eye of Major Albrecht von
Roon. Later, with the rank of major in the cavalry, Friedrich Karl
served as a staff officer for General von Wrangel during the German-Danish
War in 1848, getting wounded at at Baden. He also took part
in the Second War of Schleswig against Denmark in
1864.
During the Austro-Prussian War 1866, General
der Kavallerie Friedrich headed up the First Army and successfully
battled the Austrian contingent at Königgrätz alongside his first cousin Crown
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian
War in 1870, the Prince was in command of the Second Army,
leading them into battle at Spicheren, Mars
le Tour, and Gravelotte-St Privat. His
troops also won engagements at Orleans and Le
Mans. For his leadership, he was promoted to the
rank of Generalfeldmarschall, becoming the Inspector-General of the
Prussian Army following the war. In 1860, the Prince published the work
Eine militärische Denkschrift von P. F. K. The
prince died in October 1870 at Klein Glienicke near Potsdam.
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