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 1858 - 1921 (62 år)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  Auguste Victoria af Augustenborg blev født den 22 okt. 1858 i Dolzig (nu: Dłużek), Polen; døde den 11 apr. 1921 i Haus Doorn, Holland,. Notater:
Gift med Kejser Wilhelm 2. af Tyskland.
Augusta Victoria was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. On 27 February 1881, Augusta married her second cousin Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. Augusta's maternal grandmother Feodora was the uterine half-sister of Queen Victoria, who was Wilhelm's maternal grandmother.
Wilhelm had earlier proposed to his first cousin, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (known in the family as "Ella"), a daughter of his mother's own sister, but she declined his offer. Wilhelm did not take that well, and was adamant upon marrying another princess soon.
Wilhelm's family was originally against the marriage with Augusta Viktoria, whose father was not even a sovereign. However, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was a strong proponent of the marriage, believing that it would end the dispute between the Prussian government and Augusta's father. In the end, Wilhelm's intransigence, the support of Bismarck, and a determination to move beyond the rejection of his proposal to Ella, led the reluctant imperial family to give official consent.
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Empress Of Tyskland
Auguste blev gift med Wilhelm II af Tyskland den 27 feb. 1881 i Berlin, Brandenburg, Tyskland. Wilhelm (søn af Friedrich III, Wilhelm, Kejser af Tyskland og Empress Of Tyskland Victoria Adelaide Mary) blev født den 27 jan. 1859 i Berlin, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde den 4 jun. 1941 i Haus Doorn, Holland,. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]
Børn:
- 2. Wilhelm af Preussen
 blev født den 6 maj 1882 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1951 i Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland.
- 3. Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl, Prins af Preussen blev født den 7 jul. 1883 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde den 8 dec. 1942.
- 4. Adalbert af Preussen blev født den 14 jul. 1884 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1948.
- 5. August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther af Tyskland blev født den 29 jan. 1887 i Potsdamer Stadtschloss, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde den 25 mar. 1949 i Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland; blev begravet i Langenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland.
- 6. August Wilhelm af Preussen blev født den 30 jan. 1887; døde den 25 mar. 1949 i Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland; blev begravet i Famillienfriedhof, Langenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Tyskland.
- 7. Oskar af Preussen blev født den 27 jul. 1888 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1958.
- 8. Joachim af Preussen blev født den 17 dec. 1890 i Berlin, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde den 18 jul. 1920.
- 9. Viktoria Luise af Preussen blev født den 13 sep. 1892 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1980.
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Generation: 2
| 2. |  Wilhelm af Preussen (1.Auguste1) blev født den 6 maj 1882 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1951 i Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland. Wilhelm blev gift med Cecilie af Mecklenburg-Schwerin den 6 jun. 1905 i Berlin, Brandenburg, Tyskland. Cecilie (datter af Friedrich Franz III Storhertug af Mecklenburg-Schwerin og Anastasia Grand Storhertuginde af Rusland) blev født den 20 sep. 1886 i Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Tyskland; døde i 1954 i Bad Kissingen, Bayern, Tyskland; blev begravet i Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Tyskland. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]
Børn:
- 10. Wilhelm af Preussen blev født den 4 jul. 1906 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1940 i Slain in Battle, ,.
- 11. Louis Ferdinand af Preussen blev født den 9 nov. 1907.
- 12. Hubertus af Preussen blev født den 30 sep. 1909 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1950.
- 13. Frederick af Preussen blev født den 19 dec. 1911 i Berlin, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1966.
- 14. Alexandrine Preussen blev født i 1915; døde i 1980.
- 15. Cecilie Preussen blev født i 1917; døde i 1975.
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| 5. | August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther af Tyskland (1.Auguste1) blev født den 29 jan. 1887 i Potsdamer Stadtschloss, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde den 25 mar. 1949 i Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland; blev begravet i Langenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland. Notater:
Titel:
Prins af Preussen
August blev gift med Alexandra Viktoria Auguste, Prinsesse af Preussen den 22 okt. 1908. Alexandra blev født den 21 apr. 1887 i Grünholz, Thumby, Slesvig-Holsten, Tyskland; døde den 15 apr. 1957 i Lyon, Rhone, Frankrig,. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]
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| 6. | August Wilhelm af Preussen (1.Auguste1) blev født den 30 jan. 1887; døde den 25 mar. 1949 i Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Tyskland; blev begravet i Famillienfriedhof, Langenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Tyskland. Notater:
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born 29 January 1887
Potsdam, Prussia
Died 25 March 1949 (aged 62)
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Burial Famillienfriedhof, Langenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
He was born in the Potsdamer Stadtschloss when his grandfather was still the Crown Prince of Prussia. He spent his youth with his siblings at the New Palace, also in Potsdam, and his school days at the Prinzenhaus in Plön. Later, he studied at the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Strasbourg. He received his doctorate in political science in 1907 "in an exceedingly dubious manner", as one author[who?] describes it.
Prince August Wilhelm married his cousin Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (21 April 1887 Germany – 15 April 1957 France) on 22 October 1908 at the Berliner Stadtschloss. The couple had planned to take up residence in Schönhausen Palace in Berlin, but changed their mind when August Wilhelm's father decided to leave his son the Villa Liegnitz in the Sanssouci Park. On 26 December 1912 their only child, Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia (died 12 June 1985), was born. Their Potsdam residence developed into a meeting place for artists and scholars.
During the First World War, August Wilhelm was made district administrator (Landrat) of the district of Ruppin; his office and residence was now Schloss Rheinsberg. His personal adjutant Hans Georg von Mackensen, with whom he had been close friends since his youth, played an important role in his life. These "pronounced homophilic tendencies" contributed to the failure of his marriage to Princess Alexandra Victoria. They never undertook a formal divorce due to the opposition of August Wilhelm's father, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
After the end of the war, the couple separated and formally divorced in March 1920. August Wilhelm was awarded custody of their son. After his divorce and the marriage of his friend Hans Georg von Mackensen to Winifred von Neurath, the daughter of Konstantin von Neurath, August Wilhelm lived a reclusive life in his villa in Potsdam. He took drawing lessons with Professor Arthur Kampf, and the sale of his pictures secured him an additional source of income.
August Wilhelm joined the nationalist veteran's group "Stahlhelm". In the following years he had increasing contact with the National Socialists. To the unease of his family and against his father's will, he joined the "dangerous, revolutionary" NSDAP on 1 April 1930, whereupon he received the low membership number 24, for symbolic reasons. In November 1931, he was accepted into the SA with the rank of "Standartenführer". His ingratiation with the National Socialists and his adoration of Adolf Hitler made August Wilhelm often the subject of mockery by the left-wing press ("Braunhemdchen Auwi", i.e. "Auwi the Little Brown Shirt), politicians ("Hanswurst" i.e. "Hans the Brown Sausage" by André François-Poncet), and from National Socialists themselves (Joseph Goebbels referred to him as "good-natured, but slightly gormless boy").
As a representative of the erstwhile Prussian royal dynasty and German imperial dynasty, August Wilhelm was deliberately used by the National Socialists to gain votes in elections such as the lead candidate of the NSDAP for election to the Prussian Landtag in April 1932 or as an election speaker alongside Hitler, whom he accompanied on flights across Germany at the same time. Through his appearances at mass rallies of the National Socialists, he addressed himself to sections of the population that were lukewarm towards National Socialism and convinced them "that Hitler was not a threat, but a benefactor of the German people and the German Empire".
In 1933 August Wilhelm was given a position within the Prussian state, and became a member of the German Reichstag. However, after the abolition of the Weimar Republic with the passing of the Enabling Act of 1933, and the open establishment of the revolutionary dictatorship of the Third Reich, the Nazis no longer needed the former prince, who himself had secretly hoped "that Hitler would one day hoist him or his son Alexander up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser". Thus in spring 1934 he was denied direct access to Hitler and by the summer after the Röhm affair, he found himself in the wilderness politically. This did not, however, reduce his adoration of Hitler.
One of his high-profile visits took August Wilhelm to the Passau Hall of Nibelungs.
On 30 June 1939 he was made an SA-Obergruppenführer, the second highest rank in the SA, but after making derogatory remarks about Joseph Goebbels in private, he was denounced in 1942. From then on, he was completely sidelined and was also banned from making public speeches.
At the beginning of February 1945, in the company of the former Crown Princess Cecilie, August Wilhelm fled the approaching Red Army, going from Potsdam to Kronberg to take refuge with his aunt Princess Margaret of Prussia, a sister of his father.
At the end of the Second World War, on 8 May 1945, August Wilhelm was arrested by United States soldiers and imprisoned on the premises of the Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg. "At the denazification trial [Spruchkammerverfahren] of 1948, to the question whether he meanwhile had at least repudiated National Socialism, he asked uncomprehendingly: 'I beg your pardon?'" He was thus categorized as "incriminated" by the denazification court of the internment camp of Ludwigsburg, and was sentenced to two and a half years' hard labour. Due to his confinement since 1945 in an internment camp, he was considered to have served his sentence.
Immediately after his release, however, new proceedings were instituted against him. There was an arrest warrant against him from a court in Potsdam in the Soviet zone. He was never arrested, as soon after he became seriously ill and died at a hospital in Stuttgart at the age of 62. August Wilhelm was buried in Langenburg in the cemetery of the princes of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
With his wife, Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince August Wilhelm had an only son:
Prince Alexander Ferdinand Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Carl Feodor of Prussia (26 December 1912 – 12 June 1985) married Armgard Weygand on 19 December 1938. They have one son.
August blev gift med Alexandra Viktoria af Glücksburg den 22 okt. 1908. Alexandra blev født den 21 apr. 1887. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]
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| 9. |  Viktoria Luise af Preussen (1.Auguste1) blev født den 13 sep. 1892 i Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Tyskland; døde i 1980. Notater:
Datter af Kejser Wilhelm II.
Viktoria blev gift med Hertug Brunswick Ernst August af Hannover den 24 maj 1913 i Berlin, Brandenburg, Tyskland. Ernst (søn af Hertug Cumberland Ernst August II Crown, Prins af Hannover og Thyra af Danmark) blev født den 17 nov. 1887 i Haus Penzing B Wien Wien Østrig, ,; døde i 1953 i Marienburg Slot, ,. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]
Børn:
- 17. Ernst August af Braunschweig blev født i 1914; døde i 1987.
- 18. George William, Prins af Hannover
- 19. Frederica af Braunschweig-Lüneburg blev født den 18 apr. 1917 i Blankenburg, Harz, Tyskland; døde den 6 feb. 1981 i Madrid, Spanien; blev begravet i Tatoi Castle Attc-B Grc, ,.
- 20. Christian Oskar Ernst August, Prins af Hannover blev født den 1 sep. 1919 i Gmunden, , Oberosterreich,Østrig; døde i 1981.
- 21. Welf Henry Hannover
- 22. Monica Af Solms Laubach Hannover
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