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| Christian I | |
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| King of Prussia | |
| Reign | 12 November 1992 – 18 January 2011 |
| Coronation | 12 November 1992 |
| Predecessor | Monarchy Re-established Wilhelm II (as King) Himself (as President of the Berlin Provisional Civil Administration) |
| Successor | Georg I |
| President of the Berlin Provisional Civil Administration | |
| Tenure | c. 1983 – 12 November 1992 |
| Born | 14 March, 1946 Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Allied Occupied Germany |
| Spouse | Princess Marie of Hannover |
| Issue | Isabelle-Alexandra Grandmontagne Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm King Georg I of Prussia Princess Maria Princess Helga Princess Anna Prince Christian |
| Full name | |
| Christian-Sigismund | |
| House | Hohenzollern |
| Father | Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia |
| Mother | Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Christian I (born 14 March 1946) was President of the Berlin Provisional Civil Administration and later King of Prussia from 1992 to his abdication in 2011. A great-grandson of the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II, Christian would be the first King of Prussia since 1918 after seizing power by force in 1991 and he later proclaimed himself King of Prussia, reigning until he was forced off the throne in the aftermath of the Prussian-Polish War. Christian was praised for providing internal stability during his reign, but he became the target of criticism for his autocratic nature. His to expand Prussia's borders to match something similar to the borders of 1918 and his perceived nostalgia for the German Empire came to alarm the rest of Europe and eventually resulted in the Prussian-Polish War in 2006.
Throughout his reign, Christian wanted to (in his eyes) "reclaim" Prussia's glory after its "bastardization" by the National Socialists of the 1930s. He became of target of ridicule within foreign media
Early Life and Background[]
Prince Christian-Sigismund of Prussia was born on 14 March 1946 in the Bavarian town of Bad Kissingen, at the time under American occupation. His father, Prince Louis Ferdinand, was the grandson of Wilhelm II, the third and final German Emperor. Christian's mother, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna, was a descendant of the Romanov dynasty that once ruled Russia until the February Revolution of 1917. Louis Ferdinand would become the heir to the Hohenzollern legacy following the death of his own father, Crown Prince Wilhelm in 1951.
By the time of his birth, it appeared unlikely that Christian-Sigismund would ever become a king in his own right. Following the Second World War, the victorious Allied powers abolished the state of Prussia, blaming its militaristic culture for German aggression. Germany's eastern territories were annexed by the Soviet Union and Poland, and the native German populations expelled. In the then seemingly unlikely scenario that the Prussian state were to be restored, he was behind his brothers in the line of succession.
His two eldest brothers, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and Prince Michael (whom are both believed to have perished on Doomsday) married commoners in the mid-1960s and renounced their historical rights as Prussian princes. In 1975 his brother Prince Louis Ferdinand Jr., dynastically wed a mediatised countess, Donata Countess of Castell-Rüdenhausen, but died accidentally during German military maneuvers two years later, leaving an only son, Georg Friedrich, as heir to the Hohenzollern legacy. Aware that his father strongly desired that he marries dynastically after his eldest brothers' morganatic marriages, Christian Sigismund nonetheless maintained that he did not feel unduly pressured: his eventual marriage to a countess, although non-mediatised, was also accepted as "equal" by his father. Prior to his death, Louis Ferdinand Sr. made Georg Friedrich his principal heir, designating Christian Sigismund as guardian responsible for his education and management of his financial share in the Hohenzollern trust during his minority.
Doomsday[]
It is unclear as to Christian's circumstances on 26 September 1983. Christian would maintain that he was a prisoner of the Stasi in Berlin, a claim that would be backed up by Prussian state media throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. However, that is generally accepted to be a total fabrication created by Christian. In the days following World War III, witnesses testified that Christian was a member of a refugee caravan, some even claiming that Christian led his own caravan to Berlin.
Since Doomsday, the vast majority of the Hohenzollern family have been unaccounted for. Prince Louis Ferdinand, along with Prince Georg Friedrich and Christian's brothers, are believed to have perished around Doomsday. As a result, Christian-Sigismund became the head of the Hohenzollern family.