7 October 1943(1943-10-07) (aged 42) Forlì, Italian Social Republic
Spouse
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
(m. 1930)
Issue
Princess Christina Princess Dorothea Prince Karl Adolf Prince Rainer Princess Clarissa
House
Hesse-Kassel
Father
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
Mother
Princess Margaret of Prussia
Military career
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Luftwaffe
Rank
Major 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]
^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.
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