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Descendants of Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (7 generations) Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (* 7.9.1811, O 21.10.1834, † 2.6.1885)
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (German: Karl Anton Joachim Zephyrinus Friedrich Meinrad Fürst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) (7 September 1811 – 2 June 1885) was the final Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by Prussia in 1849 and Prime Minister of Prussia from 1858 to 1862, which made him the only Hohenzollern Prince to hold that post. His ...
Karl Anton's second son, Karl Eitel of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen became prince (1866–1881) and then King of Romania, under the name Carol (reigned 1881–1914). The house remained on the throne until the end of the Romanian monarchy in 1947.
Karl Anton was born at Krauchenwies Castle in Sigmaringen, the second child of Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1785–1853) and the French princess Marie Antoinette Murat (1793–1847). Karl Anton studied law in Geneva, at the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
After this, Karl Anton largely resigned from active politics and focused on his role as head of the Catholic branch of the Hohenzollern family, accentuated by the extinction of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen line in 1869. In 1866, his second son, Karl, was offered the throne of Romania, where he would rule for nearly forty years as Carol I.
Karl Anton served as a Prussian Lieutenant general during World War I and died after his return to Namedy in 1919, at age 51. Karl Anton and Joséphine Caroline had four children: Princess Stephanie Josephine Karola Philippine Leopoldine Marie of Hohenzollern (8 April 1895 – 7 August 1975) she married Prince Joseph Ernst Fugger of Glött , on 18 May 1920 and they were divorced in 1943.
Renowned German writer Goethe once said: “Collectors are happy people!” If that is true, then Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811–1885), must have been a very happy man indeed. After all, he is the one to thank for Hohenzollern Palace’s impressive collection of arms and armory.
