Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
Wilhelm Friedrich Karl of Orange- Nassau ( Dutch: Willem Frederik Karel van Oranje -Nassau, born February 28, 1797 in Berlin, † September 8, 1881 in Wassenaar ), Prince of Orange- Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands, was the second son of king William I and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia.
Life
He was largely educated at the Prussian court, made the campaign of 1813, then joined the Dutch army and fought in the Battle of Waterloo. According to family agreement of 4 April 1815, he should, as soon as his older brother William King of the Netherlands will, get the German hereditary lands of the family of Orange- Nassau, as they were exchanged but as a sovereign, Grand Duke of Luxembourg; but he resigned his claims in 1816 against an indemnity in domains with 190,000 florins yearly income and received the title of Prince of the Netherlands.
Soon after, he was Commissioner-General of the War Department, Colonel General and Field Marshal of the land forces, in 1829 Admiral of the Kingdom and Grand Master of the Artillery and developed in these offices great activity. 1830 placed at the head of a corps, which should submit Brussels, he was forced to retreat. To the organization of the army and the war administration, he lent his hand in many ways, to him certain of the resignation of his father by the government to withdraw from all public transactions.
Friedrich was taken to the Three Globes 1816 in Berlin in the Masonic Lodge and was then for 60 years Grand Master of the Grand East of the Netherlands; also he held a protectorate over an Austrian Masonic wreath Munificentia in Karlovy Vary, at a time when Freemasonry in Austria was forbidden. He made the big east the Bibliotheca Klossiana from Frankfurt am Main and the Grand Lodge building in The Hague as a gift.
Prince Frederick lived partly in the Netherlands, partly in the purchased of him able Muskau in Upper Lusatia, where he was the last nobleman who actively to the current lord Pueckler Park landscape artistic cared what he called Eduard Petzold to the park director. He died on September 8, 1881, the successor to the registrar Muskau joined his daughter Marie, Princess of Wied now at.
He was in 1816 the second boss and 1823 namesake of Infantry Regiment " Prince Frederick of the Netherlands " ( Westphalian 2 ) No. 15
Progeny
Frederick was since 1825. With the Princess Louise of Prussia, daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm III, married.
- Wilhelmine Friederike Alexandrine Anna Louise (1828-1871) ∞ King Charles XV. of Sweden
- Nikolaus Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (1833-1834)
- Wilhelm Friedrich Nikolaus Albert (1836-1846)
- Wilhelmine Friederike Alexandrine Anna Louise Marie (1841-1910) ∞ Prince Wilhelm of Wied