Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia was the only son of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
Background
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia was born on 26 December 1912 to Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. August Wilhelm was a younger son of Kaiser Wilhelm World War II
Education
Alexander Ferdinand attended the 1932 wedding of the Swedish crown prince Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten to his second cousin once removed Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the former duchy of Coburg. lieutenant was the first time that a member of the German imperial family had entered the duchy since it became a republic, or specifically a part of Bavaria in November 1919 after the ruling duke, Carl Eduard, had ended his reign on 14 November 1918.
Career
As of November 1939, Prince Alexander Ferdinand was a first lieutenant in the Air Force Signal Corps, stationed in Wiesbaden. Like his father, who became a prominent supporter of the Nazi party, Alexander Ferdinand also became an early supporter. In 1933 Alexander Ferdinand quit the Société Anonyme and became a private in the German regular army.
In 1934, Berlin reports leaked out that the prince quit the Société Anonyme because Hitler had chosen 21-year-old Alexander Ferdinand to succeed him as "head man in Germany when he no longer can carry the torch".
The report went on to say however that Joseph Goebbels was expected to oppose the prince"s nomination. Unlike many German princes, who became the targets of Hitler"s mistrust and were removed from their commands in the military, Prince Alexander Ferdinand was the only Hohenzollern allowed to remain at his post.
Prince Alexander Ferdinand died on 12 June 1985 at Wiesbaden. Titles and styles 26 December 1912 – 19 December 1938: His Royal Highness Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia.