Prince Hubertus Karl Wilhelm of Prussia (30 September 1909 – 8 April 1950) was the third son of

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst; 6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the eldest child of the last '' Kaiser'', the German Emperor, Wilhelm II, and his consort Augusta Victoria of Schl ...

and

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954) was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, the son of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Cecili ...

, and member of the princely

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Biography

He joined the army in 1934 (infantry regiment 8 in Frankfurt/Oder) and participated in the

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in 1939. One year later he was dismissed from the army by Hitler's Prinzenerlaß, following the death of his elder brother Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, who was wounded in France in May 1940 and later died in a Field hospital in Belgium.

Marriage and issue

On 29 December 1941, he married Baroness Maria Anna Sybilla Margaretha von Humboldt-Dachröden (9 July 1916 – 24 September 2003) in Oels,

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. They divorced a little over a year later in early 1943 (the same year she would later give birth to Hubertus' cousin, Ernest Augustus', illegitimate son),If circumstances had been different ...
/ref> and on 5 June of that year, he married again to

Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz Magdalena Pauline (20 August 1920 – 10 October 2009) was the wife of Prince Hubertus of Prussia, and was henceforth Princess Hubertus of Prussia. By birth, she was a member of the Reuss Younger Line, House of Reuss. Early life Born on 20 Aug 19 ...

(20 August 1920 – 10 October 2009). They had two daughters: * Princess Anastasia Victoria Cecilia Hermine of Prussia (born 14 February 1944); married Alois-Konstantin, 9th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and had issue. *Princess Marie Christine of Prussia (18 July 1947 – 29 May 1966); died from injuries resulting from a car accident. Prince Hubertus died of

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on 8 April 1950 at

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. He was buried in

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Ancestry

References

1909 births 1950 deaths German Army personnel of World War II House of Hohenzollern People from Potsdam People from the Province of Brandenburg Prussian princes Deaths from appendicitis {{Germany-noble-stub