Prince Hubertus of Prussia

Birthday September 30, 1909

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Marmorpalais, Potsdam, German Empire

DEATH DATE 1950-4-8, Windhoek, South West Africa (40 years old)

Nationality Russia

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1909

Prince Hubertus Karl Wilhelm of Prussia (30 September 1909 – 8 April 1950) was the third son of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and member of the princely House of Hohenzollern.

1920

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), and on 5 June of that year, he married again to Princess Magdalena Reuss of Köstritz (20 August 1920 – 10 October 2009).

They had two daughters:

1934

He joined the army in 1934 (infantry regiment 8 in Frankfurt/Oder) and participated in the Invasion of Poland in 1939.

1940

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.

1941

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

1950

Prince Hubertus died of appendicitis on 8 April 1950 at Windhoek, South West Africa.

He was buried in Hohenzollern Castle.