Prince Hubertus of Prussia

Prince Hubertus of Prussia (Hubertus Karl Wilhelm; 30 September 1909 – 8 April 1950) was the third son of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and member of the princely House of Hohenzollern.

Prince Hubertus
Born(1909-09-30)30 September 1909
Marmorpalais, Potsdam, German Empire
Died8 April 1950(1950-04-08) (aged 40)
Windhoek, South West Africa
Burial15 April 1950
Hohenzollern Castle, Wurttemberg-Hohenzollern, West Germany
SpouseBaroness Maria von Humboldt-Dachroeden
Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz
IssueAnastasia, Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Princess Marie Christine of Prussia
Full name
Hubertus Karl Wilhelm
HouseHohenzollern
FatherWilhelm, German Crown Prince
MotherDuchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Biography

He joined the army in 1934 (infantry regiment 8 in Frankfurt/Oder) and participated in the Invasion of Poland in 1939. One year later he was dismissed from the army by Hitler's Prinzenerlaß, following the death of his elder brother Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, who was wounded in France on 23rd May 1940 and died in a Field hospital in Belgium three days later.

Marriage and issue

On 29 December 1941, he married Baroness Maria Anna von Humboldt-Dachroeden (9 July 1916 – 24 September 2003) in Oels, Schlesien. They divorced a little over a year later in early 1943 (the same year she would later give birth to Hubertus' cousin, Ernest Augustus', illegitimate son),[1] and on 5 June of that year, he married again to Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz (20 August 1920 – 10 October 2009). They had two daughters:

Prince Hubertus died of appendicitis on 8 April 1950 at Windhoek, South West Africa. He was buried in Hohenzollern Castle.

Prince Hubertus (at bottom) with his brothers, 1914

Ancestry

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