Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia
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Prince Eitel Friedrich (Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl) (July 7, 1883–December 8, 1942) was a son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Duchess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein. He was both born and died in Potsdam, Germany.
Prince Eitel married Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg at Berlin in 1906 and divorced her in 1926. They had no children.
Prince Eitel, during the Summer of 1915, was traveling across the warfront in Russia with the advancing German military. It was out in a field that the Prince had a chance encounter with Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) who had just crashed with his superior officer, Count Holck. The two men were hiding in a nearby tree line from what they thought was the advancing Russian army and who turned out to be the genadiers, guardsmen, and officers of Prince Eitel.
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