Background
He was the second (but eldest surviving) son of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, by his second wife Christine Johanna Emilie, daughter of Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz-Pless.
He was the second (but eldest surviving) son of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, by his second wife Christine Johanna Emilie, daughter of Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz-Pless.
As a young prince, Karl George Lebrecht served briefly in the Danish army (1750-1751) and, from November 1751, in the Prussian army. In 1755, he inherited Anhalt-Köthen after the death of his father. During the Turkish Wars of the 1780s he contracted a fever and died in Semlin (now Zemun) near Belgrade.
