Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

Infobox Prussian Royalty|prince
name =Prince August Wilhelm
title = Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia



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spouse =Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
issue =Prince Alexander Ferdinand
royal house =House of Hohenzollern
father =Wilhelm II of Germany
mother =Duchess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
date of birth =birth date|1887|01|29|mf=y
place of birth =Potsdam, Prussia
date of death = death date and age|1949|03|25|1887|01|29|mf=y
place of death =Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
place of burial=|

:"For the brother of King Frederick II of Prussia, see Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)."

Prince August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor of Prussia (January 29, 1887 in Potsdam, Germany–March 25, 1949 in Stuttgart, Germany), called Auwi, was the fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

He fought in WWI and after the war joined the conservative veteran group the Stahlhelm, in 1930, against the will of his father, he joined the "dangerous, revolutionary" National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) of Hitler, and in 1933 he become a member of the SA and the Reichstag. In 1939 he was promoted to the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer, but, after making some negative remarks about Goebbels in 1942, he lost Hitler's favour.

After the end of the war he was arrested by the Americans and sentenced to three years in jail. He was released in 1948 and died the following year. He is buried in Langenburg.

He married Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (21 April 1887 Germany - 15 April 1957 France), on 22 October 1908, with whom he had one son.

*Prince "Alexander Ferdinand" Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Carl Feodor of Prussia (26 December, 1912–12 June 1985). He married and had one son.

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1= 1. Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
2= 2. William II, German Emperor
3= 3. Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
4= 4. Frederick III, German Emperor
5= 5. Victoria, Princess Royal
6= 6. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
7= 7. Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
8= 8. William I, German Emperor
9= 9. Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
10= 10. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
11= 11. Victoria of the United Kingdom
12= 12. Christian, Duke of Augustenborg
13= 13. Louise of Danneskiold-Samsøe
14= 14. Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
15= 15. Princess Feodora of Leiningen
16= 16. Frederick William III of Prussia
17= 17. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
18= 18. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
19= 19. Maria Pavlovna of Russia
20= 20. Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
21= 21. Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
22= 22. Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
23= 23. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
24= 24. Frederik Christian II, Duke of Augustenborg
25= 25. Louise Auguste of Denmark
26= 26. Christian-Conrad, Count of Danneskiold-Samsøe
27= 27. Johanna Kaas of Mur
28= 28. Charles Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
29= 29. Amalie of Solms-Baruth
30= 30. Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
31= 31. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (= 23)


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