Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau

Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 27 December 1769 - d. Dessau, 27 May 1814), was a German prince member of the House of Ascania and heir of the Principality (and since 1807 Duchy) of Anhalt-Dessau.

He was the only surviving child of Leopold III, Prince and later Duke of Anhalt-Dessau by his wife and cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine, daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. His only sibling, a sister born on 11 February 1768, was either stillborn or died shortly after her birth. [ [http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/stoyan/l1/LANG=span/INDEX=I216639 Chronological dates of the rulers of Anhalt] ]

Life

In 1786 he joined to the Prussian army, when he obtain later the rank of "Generalfeldmarschall". In 1805 he made the contract of build of the Kühnauer Park.

Frederick died three years before his father; for this he never inherited Anhalt-Dessau. His place as Leopold III's heir was taken by his older son Leopold Frederick, who succeeded his grandfather in 1817 with the name of Leopold IV.

Marriage and Issue

In Bad Homburg vor der Höhe on 12 June 1792 Frederick married with Christiane Amalie (b. Homburg, 29 June 1774 - d. Dessau, 3 February 1846), daughter of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. They had seven children: [ [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/ascania/ascan7.html#pF Complete Genealogy of the House of Ascania] ]
#Amalie Auguste (b. Dessau, 18 August 1793 - d. Rudolstadt, 12 June 1854), married on 15 April 1816 to Frederick Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
#Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau and since 1863 Duke of all Anhalt (b. Dessau, 1 October 1794 - d. Dessau, 22 May 1871).
#George Bernhard (b. Dessau, 21 February 1796 - d. Dresden, 16 October 1865).
#Paul Christian (b. Dessau, 22 March 1797 - d. Dessau, 4 May 1797).
#Louise Fredericka (b. Dessau, 1 March 1798 - d. Homburg, 11 June 1858), a deaf-mute from birth; married on 12 February 1818 to his uncle Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (brother of her mother).
#Frederick Augustus (b. Dessau, 23 September 1799 - d. Dessau, 4 December 1864).
#William Waldemar (b. Dessau, 29 May 1807 - d. Vienna, 8 October 1864), married morganatically on 9 July 1840 to Emilie Klausnitzer (b. Dessau, 30 January 1812 - d. Vienna, 28 March 1888), created "Freifrau von Stolzenberg" in 1842.

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