| Alfred of Prussia | ||
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| Personal information | ||
| Secular name | Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad of Prussia de Sajonia Altenburgo | |
| Birth | As August 17 as 1924 Chimaltenango ,  Republic of Guatemala | |
| Death | As June 3 as 2013 (88 years old) San José (Costa Rica) ,  | |
| Family | ||
| Dynasty | Hohenzollern | |
| Father | Sigismund of Prussia | |
| Mother | Carlota Agnes of Saxony-Altenburg | |
| Consort | Maritza Farkas | |
Alfredo Federico Ernesto Enrique Gonzalo de Prusia (in German Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad von Preußen ) ( Guatemala , August 17 , 1924 - Costa Rica , June 3 , 2013 ), son of Segismundo de Prusia and Carlota Inés de Sajonia-Altenburgo . He was a double great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria I and great-nephew of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II . His grandmother, Irene of Hesse-Darmstadt , was the sister of the Tsarina of Russia, Alejandra Fiódorovna, and therefore he was a second cousin of the sons of the last Russian tsars. On her mother's side, she was descended from the House of Saxony-Altenburg , related to almost all the royal houses of Europe. He lived most of his life in Costa Rica . He finished his education in Switzerland and returned again to Costa Rica.
Biography
Family
Prince Sigismund of Prussia and Princess Carlota Agnes of Saxony-Altenburg had, in addition to Prince Alfred, an eldest daughter, Princess Barbara of Prussia (August 2, 1920 - May 31, 1994), married to Duke Cristián Luis from Mecklenburg-Schwerin and mother of two daughters: Donata from Mecklenburg (married to Alexander von Solodkoff and mother of three children) and Edwina from Mecklenburg (married to Konrad von Posern and parents of three children).
Prince Segismundo's family arrived in Guatemala and settled in Chimaltenango , on the Santa Sofía farm, where Prince Alfredo was born in 1924. At the age of two, in 1926 , the entire family returned to Germany , where they attended the funeral of the Queen mother Louise , widow of King Frederick VIII of Denmark and visited several relatives in Hemmelmark and Altenburg , such as Henry of Prussia and Irene of Hesse, Alfred's grandparents, or Frederick of Saxony-Altenburg , his mother's brother. [ 1 ]
At the end of 1927, and with only three years old, Alfredo and his family moved to Costa Rica , where they bought a farm in Cerro de San Miguel, in Barranca , [ 2 ] in the Province of Puntarenas , near the coast. peace of that tropical country. The farm had fifty hectares and twenty bee hives. Later they managed to double the amount of land and had 250 bee hives, beekeeping being the first agricultural activity, which allowed them to produce enough honey to export to Germany , but they also dedicated themselves to the cultivation of citrus fruits and livestock.
Education
From a young age both he and his sister Barbara were educated by a German governess, named Erna Möglich, on the San Miguel estate. In 1936 , at the age of twelve, he was sent to San José (Costa Rica) to attend the German School, a private educational institution founded in 1912. At that time, National Socialism was beginning to enter the country's German youth. Princess Irene, aware of her son's few resources, pushed for them to return to Germany to have a more comfortable life and a better education for her grandchildren. [ 3 ]
At the age of 14, in 1938 he moved to Germany , together with his sister Barbara, to continue his secondary studies. First, Sigismund gave the guardianship to his brother-in-law Jorge Mauricio , who had a school in the castle of Hamborn , who followed the Waldorf pedagogy for Anthroposophy .
The first months of their stay in Germany were spent with their uncle Jorge Mauricio and their aunt Elisabeth, both of their mother's brothers, receiving a spiritual education that greatly influenced both Alfredo and Bárbara. [ 4 ]
They visited their grandmother Irene, who did not know that her grandchildren were in Europe. Both Alfredo and Barbara visited various relatives in Switzerland , Denmark and Sweden . The 27 of January of 1939 , the family Hohenzollern to the full, gathered in Doorn , where since his abdication lived Guillermo II , to celebrate the eighty years of the ex - emperor. There, Prince Alfred was able to meet Federica de Hannover , then Crown Princess of Greece (second cousin of Prince Sigismund) and Sofia of Greece , who at that time was only three months old. [ 5]
To avoid social-nationalist education, and because anthroposophist schools were having trouble with the Hitler government , Irene enrolled her grandson in a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland , where she spent the years of World War II . [ 6 ]
Like all members of the family, Prince Alfredo spoke German , Spanish , English and French fluently .
Return to Costa Rica
The 21 of August of 1945 traveled to Sweden, where he was greeted by a cousin of his father, Princess Louise of Sweden , married to the heir to the Swedish throne, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden . From there, she returned to Hemmelmark where her grandmother was still devastated by the death of her son Waldelmar and by the arrest of Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Barbara's suitor, by the Russians.
Thanks to the help of Luisa from Sweden [ 7 ] he was able to return to Costa Rica. Upon his return he did not want to work on his parents' farm, a fact that caused him many problems with Sigismund of Prussia.
Over time he tried to create an anthroposophist school in Costa Rica but the project could not be carried out. He was founder and member of the Genealogical Association of Costa Rica.
Marriage and end of life
The 15 as December as 1984 , sixty-two, he married a wealthy Czechoslovak called Maritza Farkas (died from cancer in 1996 ). They had no offspring.
Prince Alfredo of Prussia passed away on June 3 , 2013 in San José (Costa Rica) . His body rests in the Purral cemetery, Guadalupe (Costa Rica) . [ 8 ]
Titles
- His Royal Highness Prince Alfred of Prussia ( August 17 , 1924 - June 3 , 2013
Ancestors
References
- ^ Stravlo, Marie (2014). My friend the Prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia . EDITORIAL AREA. p. 259. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9 .
- ↑ Newspaper Prensa Libre , pp 06, 39.
- ^ Stravlo, Marie (2014). My friend the Prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia . EDITORIAL AREA. p. 194. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9 .
- ^ Stravlo, Marie (2014). My friend the Prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia . EDITORIAL AREA. p. 195. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9 .
- ^ Stravlo, Marie (2014). My friend the Prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia . EDITORIAL AREA. p. 197. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9 .
- ^ Stravlo, Marie (2014). My friend the Prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia . EDITORIAL AREA. p. 197. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9 .
- ^ Stravlo, Marie (2014). My friend the Prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia . EDITORIAL AREA. p. 203. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9 .
- ↑ http://www.nacion.com/ocio/revista-dominical/principe-Barranca_0_1369063097.html?print=1
Bibliography
- Marie Stravlo: My friend the prince, biography of Alfredo de Prusia , REA EDITORIAL, 2015. ISBN 978-9930-9520-0-9
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