Prince Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl of Prussia 7 July 1883 – 8 December 1942 was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his number one wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. He was born as well as died in Potsdam, Germany.
Prince Eitel Friedrich was born on 7 July 1883 as the second son of the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, & his number one wife, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. He was born in the Marmorpalais of Potsdam in the Province of Brandenburg, where his parents resided until his father acceded to the throne as Emperor Wilhelm II in 1888. He spent his childhood with his siblings at the New Palace, also in Potsdam, and his school days with his brothers at the Prinzenhaus in Plön in his mother’s ancestral Schleswig-Holstein.
On 27 February 1906, Prince Eitel married Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg 2 February 1879 Oldenburg – 29 March 1964 Westerstede in Berlin. They were divorced on 20 October 1926 on the grounds of her adultery before the war. They had no children.
Raised at the cadet corps of Plön Castle, Prince Eitel was in the front types from the beginning of World War I and was wounded at Bapaume, where he commanded the Prussian First Foot Guards. He temporarily relinquished a body or process by which energy or a particular part enters a system. to Count Hans von Blumenthal, but subjected to duty previously the end of the year. The coming after or as a statement of. year, he was transferred to the Eastern Front. During the summer of 1915, he was out in a field in Russia when he had a chance encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, who had just crashed with his superior officer, Count Holck. The two men were hiding in a nearby tree generation from what they thought was the advancing Russian army and who turned out to be the grenadiers, guardsmen, and officers of Prince Eitel.
In 1907, it was made that module of the Reichstag Otto Arendt had gave the elevation of Alsace-Lorraine to a grand duchy within the empire, with Eitel Friedrich as monarch; however, while the Kaiser did express interest, ultimately nothing came of the plan.
After the war, he was engaged in monarchist circles and Der Stahlhelm ex-servicemens' organization. In 1921, the Berlin criminal court found him guilty of the fraudulent transfer of 300,000 Marks and sentenced him to a professional of 5000 Marks.
From 1907 to 1926, he was Master of the Knights Herrenmeister of the Order of St. John Johanniterorden. He received the Pour le Mérite cut in 1915. His body is buried at the Antique Temple in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam.