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German prince Georg Freidrich is no pauper April 12, 2021 10:48 AM CDT By Victor Grossman
The prince wants to take over the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany, the site where the Soviet Union, Britain and the U.S. negotiated the end to World War II. | Wikimedia (CC)
BERLIN The Prince is no pauper but it seems the poor fellow has problems with his crown jewels. And this is no simple little private problem, to be expected with princes! Nor is this handsomely smiling, youngish man, who hardly looks his 44 years, itching only for jewels. He also wants hundreds or even a few thousand fine jewelry cases, delicate porcelain and glass objects, portraits of martial Prussian generals, sculptures, even a decorative sword or two.
LACMA CEO and director Michael Govan. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA.
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A German Prince Wants His Family Treasures Back From Germany – Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, a descendant of the Hohenzollern dynasty (which reigned over the former Prussian empire), is on a quest to recover his family’s art and artifacts. The bourgeois businessman believes that the royal treasures, confiscated in Eastern Germany after World War II and transferred to museum collections, are rightfully his but the courts could dismiss his claim if it is found that his great-grandfather was a supporter of the Nazi party. (
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The Humboldt Forum, a reconstruction of the old Berlin Schloss in Berlin. It will eventually showcase thousands of ethnological artifacts, many of which were acquired during the colonial era. Photograph: The New York Times
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On a chilly August day in 2014, I accompanied a tall 38-year-old around Berlin’s biggest building site. Perched on an open concrete platform on the second floor, wearing a hard hat and high-vis vest, a smile rose on the face of Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, the head of the Hohenzollern family and man who would be kaiser.