Prince Friedrich Karl | |||||
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Born | 6 April 1893 Schloss Klein-Glienicke, Potsdam, German Empire | ||||
Died | 6 April 1917 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France | (aged 24)||||
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House | House of Hohenzollern | ||||
Father | Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia | ||||
Mother | Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
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1912 Stockholm | Team jumping |
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Descendants of Frederick William III |
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Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (Tassilo Wilhelm Humbert Leopold Friedrich Karl; 6 April 1893 – 6 April 1917) was a German prince and competitive horseman who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. [1]
Prince Friedrich Karl was born in Schloss Klein-Glienicke, Potsdam, Berlin. He was the son of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931) and Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866–1952) and a grandson of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
He was a member of the 1912 German Olympic equestrian team, which won a bronze medal in the team jumping event. His horse during the Olympic competition was "Gibson Boy". [2]
He fought in World War I as an aviator between 1914 and 1917. He commanded Fliegerabteilung (Artillerie) 258, an artillery spotting unit, but flew patrols in a single-seat fighter with Jasta Boelcke whenever possible. During one such patrol, on 21 March 1917, he was forced to land because of a bullet in his engine and with a slight wound to his foot. He landed his Albatros aircraft in no-man's land, but while running towards his own lines he was shot in the back and severely wounded by Australian troops. [3] He was taken into captivity, where he died from his injuries on 6 April 1917 (his 24th birthday) at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. [4]