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Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf of Prussia (4 July 1906 – 26 May 1940) was the eldest child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At his birth, he was second in line to the German throne and was expected to succeed to the throne after the deaths of his grandfather, Emperor Wilhelm ...

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was a first cousin of Prince Oskar of Prussia who was killed in action during the invasion of Poland in 1939. Oskar Aanmoen Senior Europe Correspondent Oskar Aanmoen...

The new king, Frederick Wilhelm IV, being childless, named his brother prince of Prussia and heir presumptive, a role that Wilhelm (like King George VI in Great Britain) had never expected to have. When revolution swept Europe in 1848, the prince was serving as governor of Pomerania, where he was regarded by the Junker land-owning conservatives ...

William I, German in full Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig, (born March 22, 1797, Berlin—died March 9, 1888, Berlin), German emperor from 1871, as well as king of Prussia from 1861, a sovereign whose conscientiousness and self-restraint fitted him for collaboration with stronger statesmen in raising his monarchy and the house of Hohenzollern to predominance in Germany. He was the second son of the ...

Frederick III, also called (until 1888) Crown Prince Frederick William, German Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm, in full Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl, (born Oct. 18, 1831, Potsdam, Prussia—died June 15, 1888, Potsdam), king of Prussia and German emperor for 99 days in 1888, during which time he was a voiceless invalid, dying of throat cancer.

He proudly describes his lineage, which traces back through centuries of kings and queens who ruled over Prussia (a once-vast area that included parts of modern-day Germany, Poland, Lithuania,...

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Crown Prince Wilhelm. Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951) was born in Potsdam on 6 May 1882, the eldest of Kaiser Wilhelm II's five sons. At the time of Wilhelm's birth Kaiser Wilhelm I was 85 years old, and Otto von Bismarck served as Chancellor. Although militaristic in manner, Wilhelm had little command experience when the First World War began ...