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The fall of 1943 was to be a devastating one for the Hessen family. On October 7, Christoph boarded a plane in Italy to return to Germany. The aircraft struck a mountain at 1,000 feet, killing Christoph and the pilot instantly. His wife, Princess Sophie, was widowed at 29, pregnant with their fifth child.

Prince Christoph and Princess Sophie had five children, including Princess Dorothea of Hesse, and remained happily married until his death in a plane crash in 1943, while serving the Nazis in WWII. Embed from Getty Images

Prince Donatus, 54, is the head of the House of Hesse, the household that Philip’s sisters Cecilie and Sophie both married into. His grandfather, Philipp, landgrave of Hesse, joined the Nazi...

Christoph Ernst August of Hesse (Frankfurt, 14 May 1901 – Apennine Mountains near Forlì, 7 October 1943) was the fifth son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia. He was a German SS officer killed accidentally during World War II. Contents 1 Career 2 Family 3 Ancestry 4 References Career

He is the eldest son and successor of German aristocrat Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, and his former wife, Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. [1] A great-grandson of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, he is named in part after Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse.

Sophie married her second cousin, Prince Christoph of Hesse, when she was just 16. Christoph was a director of the Third Reich’s Ministry of Air Forces and held the rank of Oberführer in the...

Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in World War I and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic.

Prince Christoph of Hesse-Kassel was the sixth and youngest child of the Landgrave and Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel. He married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark on December 15, 1930. He died while fighting in WWII on October 7, 1943 in Flori, Italy at the age of forty-two.