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Major in the Reserve. Prince Christoph of Hesse (Christoph Ernst August; 14 May 1901 – 7 October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Reserve, killed on active duty in a plane crash during World War II.
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.
He went to the funeral, held in Nazi controlled Darmstadt, and walked next to his sister Sophie’s husband, Christoph of Hesse, a future Luftwaffe officer dressed in an SS uniform.
Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Hesse (born 2007) Prince August of Hesse (born 2012) Prince Philipp Robin of Hesse (born 1970) Prince Tito of Hesse (born 2008) Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901–1943) Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse (1937–2022) Prince Christoph of Hesse (born 1969) Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (born 1939)
The Wedding of Prince Christoph of Hesse, son of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Margaret of Prussia, and 16 year-old Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (wearing the Hesse Fleur-de-Lys Tiara), daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg, in a Greek Orthodox Ceremony at Schloss Friedrichshof in Kronberg ...
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. Prince Christophe was a director...
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 SS.
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.
1901. Prince Christoph Ernst August of Hesse (14 May 1901 – 7 October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Reserve, killed on active duty in a plane crash during World War II.
Prince Christoph of Hesse (Christoph Ernst August; 14 May 1901 – 7 October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Reserve, killed on active duty in a plane crash during World War II.
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Prince Christoph of Hesse was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Re... Wikipedia
- May 14, 1901, Frankfurt, Germany
- October 7, 1943, Forlì
- Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (m 1930 - 1943)
- Princess Christina of Hesse, Princess Clarissa, Prince Karl Adolf, Princess Dorothea, Prince Rainer
- Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Princess Margaret of Prussia
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