Prince Christoph of Hesse-Cassel
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Christoph Ernst August of Hesse-Cassel (14 May 1901 - 7 October 1943) was the son of Frederick, Prince of Hesse-Cassel and Princess Margaret of Prussia.
Christoph of Hesse-Cassel was a high ranking Nazi. He was chief of Goering's secret intelligence service, an aide to Heinrich Himmler and a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS).[1] Born in Frankfurt, Prince Christoph was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, wife of Frederick III, German Emperor.
Christoph married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark on 15 December 1930 in Berlin, Germany. Princess Sophie was the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, and the sister of the future Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Through her father she was a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and King Christian IX of Denmark and through her mother a descendant of both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
They had five children:
- Princess Christine Margarethe of Hesse (born 10 January 1933)
- Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (born 24 July 1934)
- Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse (born 26 March 1937)
- Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (born 18 November 1939), unmarried
- Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse (born 6 February 1944)
On 7 October 1943 Prince Christoph died in an airplane accident in the Apennine hills near Forlì, in Italy. His body was found two days later.
