Prince Christoph of Hesse

Prince Christoph
Christoph in 1921
Born(1901-05-14)14 May 1901
Frankfurt, German Empire
Died7 October 1943(1943-10-07) (aged 42)
Forlì, Italian Social Republic
Spouse
(m. 1930)
IssuePrincess Christina
Princess Dorothea
Prince Karl Adolf
Prince Rainer
Princess Clarissa
HouseHesse-Kassel
FatherPrince Frederick Charles of Hesse
MotherPrincess Margaret of Prussia
Military career
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service / branch Luftwaffe
RankMajor in the Reserve

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. His brother-in-law, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, fought on the British side and married the future Queen Elizabeth II after the war.[1]

  1. ^ Eade, Philip (2011). Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II (Kindle ed.). New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 9781429961684.