Karl of Prussia ( Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia , German: Friedrich Carl Alexander von Preußen ; , - , ) - Prince Prussian Colonel General with the rank of Prussian Field Marshal (February 5, 1857).
| Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Prinz Friedrich Carl Alexander von Preußen | ||||||||||||||||||
 Prince of Prussia Friedrich Karl Alexander | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | June 29, 1801 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Charlottenburg Palace | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | January 21, 1883 (81 years old) | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Berlin | |||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Prussia | |||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | artillery | |||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Colonel General | |||||||||||||||||
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Biography
The third son of Friedrich Wilhelm III and Louise Mecklenburg-Strelitskaya , brother of Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Wilhelm I.
He took part in the campaigns of William I, was considered one of the pillars of the conservative party. From his inheritance, the state acquired a large collection of weapons included in the Berlin Tseikhgauz . It was from the filing of Karl in the Prussian army by the decree of Friedrich Wilhelm IV in 1842 that the famous "pickelhels" (leather helmets with a pointed peak on the top) were introduced, copied from the Russian sample, presented to the Prince by the Russian Emperor Nicholas I during a friendly visit of Karl to Russia in 1837 .
On November 26, 1869, the Russian Emperor Alexander II granted him the Order of St. George of the 4th degree and on October 22, 1872 the same order of the 3rd degree (No. 526 according to the cavalier lists ).
June 25, 1820 was awarded the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called [2] .
Family
In 1827, Karl married Princess Mary ( 1808 - 1877 ), daughter of Karl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna , daughter of the Russian Emperor Paul I. His wife was his fourth cousin's niece (both are descendants of the Prussian king Frederick William I and his wife Sofia Dorothea of Hanover ). Children:
- Friedrich Karl ( 1828 - 1885 ), married to Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
- Louise ( 1829 - 1901 ), married to Alexis of Hesse-Filipstal-Barfeldsky
- Maria Anna ( 1836 - 1918 ), wife of Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel .
Since 1829, the Order Palace , renamed in his honor the “Palace of Prince Charles”, served as the residence of Prince Charles in Berlin.
Military ranks
- 26.6.1811 second lieutenant
- 13.4.1816 First Lieutenant
- 2.3.1818 major
- 23.5.1822 Colonel (bypassing the rank of lieutenant colonel)
- 30.4.1824 Major General
- 30.4.1832 lieutenant general
- 9/23/1844 infantry general
- 30.3.1854 Field-General-General of the Field (last in the Prussian army who held this position)
- 5.2.1857 Colonel-General as Field Marshal (since Field-General-General was equated with Field-Marshal)
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage - 717826 copies.
- ↑ Karabanov P.F. Lists of remarkable Russian faces / [Ext.: P.V. Dolgorukov]. - M .: Univ. typ., 1860. - 112 p. - (From the 1st book. “Readings in the Island of History and Antiquities grew up at the Moscow University. 1860”)
Links
- Karl-Friedrich-Alexander // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Stepanov V.S., Grigorovich P.I. In memory of the centennial of the imperial Military Order of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George. (1769-1869). SPb., 1869