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Prince Christoph of Hesse (Christoph Ernst August; 14 May 1901 – 7 October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Reserve, killed on active duty in a plane crash during World War II.
May 22, 2006 · Each was destroyed by being caught up in that foul web, Christoph dying as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, while Philipp went from being one of Hitler’s closest confidants to being his prisoner.
Apr 18, 2021 · One of their sons — the Duke of Edinburgh’s nephew — Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse, is said to have been named after Adolf Hitler, who they had met in the early 1930s. Sophie in a late...
Apr 12, 2021 · Despite being the youngest of the sisters, she was the first to get hitched, marrying Prince Christoph of Hesse in 1930. The couple went on to have five children, but Christoph sadly died in a plane crash in 1943.
- Rebecca Cope
Apr 17, 2021 · The third German Prince is Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse (born 1966), who is not a descendant of either of the two remaining sisters, although both Princess Cecilie and Sophie married...
Prince Christoph Ernst August of Hesse (1901-1943) married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, had issue. Richard Wilhelm Leopold (1901-1969), unmarried Upon their father's death in 1884, Frederick's eldest brother Frederick William became the head of the House of Hesse, and afterwards his next brother Alexander.
Jun 26, 2018 · Prince Christoph of Hesse, the husband of Philip’s sister, Sophie, joined the SS in 1932 – even before Hitler came to power – and served as a director in the Third Reich’s air force and as commander of its air reserves.
