Prince George William of Hanover (1880–1912)

Georg Wilhelm Christian Albert Edward Alexander Friedrich Ernst Waldemar Adolf Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Hanover ( born October 28, 1880 in Gmunden, † May 20 1912 in the forest near Nackel in Brandenburg ) was a German prince and officer.

Life

Prince Georg Wilhelm was the eldest son of the last Crown Prince of Hanover, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and Princess Thyra of Denmark, daughter of King Christian IX. of Denmark. He was a captain in the Austrian army. He loved cars. In 1910 he passed his driving test in Vienna. He participated in rallies and races. The prince was very popular in Austria. He had a bad health.

Prince Georg Wilhelm liked to spend time in Egypt, and his father Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Cumberland, in 1905 visited the Wilhelm Pelizaeus -funded excavations at the Giza plateau. In the winter of 1908 and 1909 Prince Georg Wilhelm also undertook hunting trips to the Upper Nile in the Sudan today.

Prince Georg Wilhelm was killed in a car accident at Nackel in the Mark Brandenburg. He was killed while driving to the funeral of his uncle, King Frederick VIII of Denmark. He remained unmarried and childless.