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Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern

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Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811-1885)

PoliticiansLived 1811 to 1885 · aged 73

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Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the last reigning prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1849.

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Portrait of Karl Anton by Richard Lauchert, 1852

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (later Emperor Wilhelm I) in about 1840. He appointed Karl Anton Minister President in 1858.

Sigmaringen Castle on the Danube River, the ancestral home of the princes of Sigmaringen-Hohenzollern

Awards 9

1856honorary citizen of Düsseldorf

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Friedrich I

Order of St. Andrew

Order of the Black Eagle

Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class

Pour le Mérite

Order of Fidelity

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

Gran Cross of the Order of the Crown

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SpouseJosephine of Baden

FatherCharles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

MotherMarie Antoinette Murat

ChildPrince Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern

ChildQueen Stephanie of Portugal

ChildCarol I of Romania

ChildPrince Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

ChildPrince Friedrich of Hohenzollern

ChildPrincess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

SiblingPrincess Karoline of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

SiblingPrincess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

SiblingPrincess Friederike of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

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About this person

Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the last reigning prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1849. Afterwards, he continued to be titular prince of his house and - with the death of the last prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen in 1869 - of the entire Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. He served as Minister President of Prussia from 1858 to 1862, the only Hohenzollern prince to hold that post. His second son, Karl, became king of Romania. The offer of the throne of Spain to his eldest son, Leopold, was one of the causes of the Franco-Prussian War, which led to the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire.