Prince George William of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg was the second eldest son of Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
Background
George William was a descendant of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. His sister, Princess Friederike of Hanover married Paul I, King of the Hellenes.
Career
He was the brother-in-law of Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, the Duke of Edinburgh, who is consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. George William was christened on 10 May 1915 in Brunswick. The prince"s godparents included Maria Christina of Austria, Prince Axel of Denmark, and Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland who held the infant prince over the baptismal font.
From 1930 through 1934, Prince George William attended the elite boarding school Schule Schloss Salem in Überlingen on Lake Constance.
Schule Schloss Salem was co-founded by the prince"s uncle, the last Chancellor of the German Empire, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and educator Kurt Hahn in 1920. From 1948 to 1959, the prince headed the Schule Schloss Salem.
Prince George William of Hanover lived in Schliersee, near Munich, and died in Munich in 2006.
Membership
Prince George William was a member of the International Olympic Committee (International Olympic Committee) and of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB).