Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Friedrich Heinrich of Brandenburg- Schwedt ( born August 21, 1709 Schwedt, † December 12, 1788 ) was a Prussian prince, " honorary " Prussian Major-General and Margrave since 1771, the last owner of the Prussian Sekundogenitur Schwedt Wildenbruchstrasse ( vulgo " Brandenburg - Schwedt "). His numerous love affairs earned him the nickname " The worst Markgraf ". As a member of Schwedter branch line of the Prussian royal house, he was like all the Prussian princes of the blood of the title " Prince of Prussia and Margrave of Brandenburg" with the title " Royal Highness ".
Life
His father was Margrave Philip William his mother Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt- Dessau, daughter of Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt- Dessau and Princess Henriette Catharina of Orange.
After his father's death in 1711, Frederick Henry by his mother under the tutelage of his uncle until Frederick I, then his cousin Frederick William I. was educated. So he was already chief of the 1711 named after him regiment " Brandenburg- Schwedt on foot ." But the prince had little military interest, in 1733 the king so incensed with the disorder in his regiment leadership that Frederick Henry was jailed for several weeks. From Frederick the Great, who respected him little, he was not used militarily. He received in 1741 the newly formed subordinated Füsilierregiment " Brandenburg- Schwedt ." But here he cared little, so he left it to the respective commanders.
Frederick Henry was married to his direct cousin Marie Leopoldine of Anhalt- Dessau since 1739. Their parents were Prince Leopold I of Anhalt -Dessau, better known as The Old Dessauer, and the pharmacist 's daughter Countess Anna Luise von Anhalt. After the birth of her two daughters, the estranged spouse soon so violent that the Margrave himself with the king as head of the House of Brandenburg - Prussia repeatedly complained about them. Frederick the Great finally banished the Margravine 1751 Kolberg, where they had to stay for the rest of their lives.
Since 1740, the Margrave was a member of the Masonic Lodge Aux trois globes ( The Three Globes ). In 1755 he acquired the Prinzessinnenpalais in Berlin. Between 1748 and 1765 Frederick Henry took part in a series of meetings of the Berlin Academy. Long -term contacts of Margrave exist with other mathematician Leonhard Euler.
When in 1771 his brother Frederick William died, he inherited the rule of Schwedt - game break. As " Margrave of Brandenburg- Schwedt " he was a patron of the arts and sciences. The lasting effect in his reign leaves Frederick Henry with the creation of a court theater in a purpose built building. A capital of 2000 Reichstalern in gold he set out with the determination that the annual interest per two young men from the reign who had visited the school at least two years Schwedter rely on those provisions as a university scholarship.
1778-1780 was the Margrave to build the castle " Monplaisir ". Even in old age, in 1784, he married the early widowed actress Mary Magdalene Charlotte Carl -born Kramann (* 1763), daughter of the Gotha Hofkellermeisters that as well as being knighted " Baroness Stoltzenberg " with the usufruct during life of the Marquis of the freight complex Stolzenberg in the Neumark was endowed financially generous. Born in 1782 their son Friedrich was awarded in 1786 by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II baron as " Stoltzenberg ".
1785 had brought the actress Henriette Hendel - Schütz to be Margrave Court Theatre.
With his death in 1788 went out of the legitimate male line of the Prussian branch line Schwedt, the Sekundogenitur - Fideikommiss reverted to the crown, his daughters and nieces were paid. His direct descendants evenly matched, he bequeathed his allodial possession, the goods Stolzenberg, Worms field and Zantoch in the Neumark, the manor Biesenbrow in Uckermark and the Margrave Heinrich Palace in Berlin. His widowed wife " to the left hand," Charlotte Baroness Stoltzenberg, married Schwedter Hofkammer and forest councilor Adolf Julius Laur. He was soon afterward Prussian war and Domänenrat to Magdeburg and since 1790 in the baron as " Laur of Münchshofen " since 1793 on Mr. Plaue had bought his wife for 76000 dollars. After he had died before his wife in 1831, took over Charlotte ( † 1838 ) the management of Guts and Nobles to Plaue.
Children
- Luise of Brandenburg- Schwedt ( * August 10, 1750, † December 21, 1811 ) ∞ Prince / Duke Leopold III. of Anhalt- Dessau (1740-1817)
- Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg- Schwedt ( * August 18, 1745; † January 23, 1808 ) last Abbess of Herford
- Friedrich Carl von Stoltzenberg (* January 15, 1782; † January 3, 1845 ), ancestor of the Barons of Stoltzenberg who could not succeed in Schwedt from the current as unebenbürtig marriage, ∞ March 15, 1811 Therese Dufour (born 4 February 1786, † June 25, 1869 in Neuwied )
- Heinrich Carl Stoltzenberg (* 1785, † August 10 1786 in Schwedt, buried in the crypt under the new Reformed church, the burial place of the Schwedter Hohenzollern)