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{{Short description|Prussian prince and army officer}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Prince Henry of Prussia
| full name    = {{langx|de|Friedrich Heinrich Karl}}<br />{{langx|en|Frederick Henry Charles}}
| image        = PrinzHeinrichvonPreußen.JPG
| caption      = Portrait, {{circa|1820}}
| house        = [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]]
| father       = [[Frederick William II of Prussia]]
| mother       = [[Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1781|12|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Berlin]], Prussia
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1846|07|12|1781|12|30|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Rome]], Papal States
}}
'''Prince Frederick Henry Charles of Prussia''' ({{langx|de|Friedrich Heinrich Karl}}; 30 December 1781, Berlin - 12 July 1846, Rome) was a Prussian prince and army officer.
{{House of Hohenzollern (Prussia)|frederickwilliam2}}
==Life==
[[File:CarlvonPreussen1781.jpg|thumb|left|Prince Henry of Prussia]]
Henry was a son of [[Frederick William II of Prussia]] (1744-1797) by his second wife [[Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt|Frederika Louisa]] (1751-1805), daughter of [[Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]. Henry entered the army on 5 September 1795 as a [[fähnrich]] in the Life Company of the 1st Guards Battalion. He also served as an [[oberst]] during the [[War of the Fourth Coalition|1806-07 campaign against Napoleon]] - at [[battle of Jena|Auerstadt]] he was loaned a horse by [[Gerhard von Scharnhorst]] after Henry's horse was killed under him. In 1807 he was made commander of the "von Schöning" Infantry Regiment. In the 1813 campaign he was on the headquarters staff of the Russian general [[Peter Wittgenstein]]. On 31 May 1815 he was promoted to General of Infantry.
From 1800 until the dissolution of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg in 1811, Henry served as co-adjutor of [[Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia]], the Bailiwick's last Lord Master.<ref>C. C. C. Gretschel, Friedrich Bülau: ''Geschichte des Sächsischen Volkes und Staates.'' Band 3, Reinhold Beyer, 1853, S. 410.</ref> On its dissolution, Henry's brother [[Frederick William III of Prussia]] set up the [[Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)#The Order in the nineteenth century and thereafter|Royal Prussian Order of Saint John]] with Augustus as its Grand Master. In 1813 Henry replaced Augustus as Grand Master. Under Henry the new Order set up a hospital in [[Jüterbog]] and a 'Deaconess Institute' (''Diakonissenanstalt'') in [[Bucharest]]. He was also a knight of the [[Order of the Black Eagle]], the [[Iron Cross]], the [[Order of St. Andrew]], the [[Order of St. Alexander Nevsky]] and the [[Order of St. George]] 3rd degree and Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of St. Vladimir]].
On 12 August 1817 Henry visited the [[USS Washington (1814)|USS ''Washington'']] during her time as the US flagship in the Mediterranean. In 1819 he was one of the godparents of [[George V of Hanover|Prince George of Cumberland]], grandson of [[George III of the United Kingdom]] at his christening in Berlin. Later in 1819 Henry moved to Rome, only gaining permission to go from Frederick William III after Henry (always in poor health) fainted at a soirée. He spent his last twenty years bedridden, with major general [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Lepel]] (1774-1840) and from 1845 [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder|Helmuth von Moltke]] as his adjutant.
He is buried in the [[Berliner Dom]]. Heinrichplatz in [[Berlin-Kreuzberg]] was named after him from 7 April 1849 until 21 August 2022 when it was renamed {{Interlanguage link|Rio-Reiser-Platz|de}}.<ref>[http://berlin.kauperts.de/Strassen/Heinrichplatz-10999-Berlin#Geschichte Heinrichplatz.] In: Straßennamenlexikon des Luisenstädtischen Bildungsvereins (on Kaupert)</ref>
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846)'''
|2= 2. [[Frederick William II of Prussia]]
|3= 3. [[Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt|Princess Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|4= 4. [[Prince Augustus William of Prussia]]
|5= 5. [[Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]
|6= 6. [[Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|7= 7. [[Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken]]
|8= 8. [[Frederick William I of Prussia]]
|9= 9. [[Sophia Dorothea of Hanover|Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover]]
|10= 10. [[Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]
|11= 11. [[Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]
|12= 12. [[Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|13= 13. [[Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg]]
|14= 14. [[Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]]
|15= 15. [[Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken]]
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==Sources==
*Richard von Meerheimb: Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Prinz von Preußen. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, S. 569 f.
*[[Heinrich Häser|Heinrich Haeser]]: Geschichte christlicher Kranken-Pflege und Pflegerschaften. W. Hertz, 1857, S. 55 f.
*Leopold von Zedlitz: Der preussische Staat in allen seinen Beziehungen. August Hirschwald, 1835, S. 149
*Theodor Fontane: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, Band 1 (Grafschaft Ruppin) „Ruppiner Garnison“ – Das Regiment Prinz Ferdinand (bei Auerstedt)
*Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum, Band 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, S. 265-266
==References==
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