Background
Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter was the only son of Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg by his second wife Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. He was born on 8 July 1827 in Oldenburg.
Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter was the only son of Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg by his second wife Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. He was born on 8 July 1827 in Oldenburg.
He claimed hereditary parts of Duchy of Holstein after Second Schleswig War in 1864. After signing a treaty on 23 February 1867 in Kiel, he renounced his claims. But, he received from Amt Ahrensbök (except the village of Travenhorst), the Prussian parts of the former Principality of Lübeck and was given a million taler as compensation from Prussia.
Thus the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg gained access to the Baltic Sea.
In his youth, he served as a General of Cavalry in the Prussian army. He also served as General of Infantry in the Hanoverian army.
He succeeded his father as Grand Duke in 1853. Peter ruled over a population of roughly 800,000.
Peter"s family had ties to the Russian imperial family (both were descendants of Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp), so that he sided with Russia against Austria during the Crimean War.
During the First Schleswig-Holstein War, he laid claim to part of the territories seized by Prussia, but in 1866 ceded his claim to the duchies. The following year, he created a military compact with Prussia, in which his troops were incorporated into the corps of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War. After suffering from heart trouble resulting from over work, Peter"s physicians recommended he have a long trip abroad.
He died the following year, on 13 June 1900 at his summer residence in Rastede.
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