Prince Oscar of Prussia (born 1959)


Prince Oscar of Prussia is a member of the House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling house of Prussia, and a pretender in line to the German throne. He is the thirty-seventh Herrenmeister of the Order of Saint John.

Life

He is the second son of Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia and wife Armgard von Veltheim, and the great-grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia. He married Auguste Zimmermann von Siefart and they had three children: Prince Oskar, Princess Wilhelmine and Prince Albert.
Prince Oscar graduated as Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin in 1995 and made a career as a media manager, amongst other as head of the German branch of Discovery Channel, founder of KiKa, new media manager of Hubert Burda Media Group and radio manager of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
Since 1999 he serves as the Herrenmeister of the Order of Saint John, following his father Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia and his grandfather Prince Oskar of Prussia, and he is a distant cousin of each of the respective sovereign heads of the Orders of St John of the British and Commonwealth realms, of the Netherlands and of the Order of St John in Sweden, which constitute the Alliance of the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem.

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