Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein


Friedrich Ferdinand
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
Head of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
PredecessorFriedrich
SuccessorWilhelm Friedrich
Born(1855-10-12)12 October 1855
Kiel, Danish Holstein,
Germany)
Died21 January 1934(1934-01-21) (aged 78)
Primkenau, Province of Silesia, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany[1]
Spouse
(m. 1885; died 1932)
Issue
Names
Frederick Ferdinand George Christian Charles William
German: Friedrich Ferdinand Georg Christian Karl Wilhelm
HouseGlücksburg
FatherFriedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
MotherPrincess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe

Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, then Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (12 October 1855 – 21 January 1934), was the fourth Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and became the fifth Duke of Schleswig-Holstein in 1931 and the head of the House of Oldenburg.

  1. ^ H. Sandner, in his biography of his son-in-law, Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Hitlers Herzog (2010), states on p. 257 that Friedrich Ferdinand dies at Primkenau, Silesia (now Przemków, Poland).