Ferfried Maximilian Pius Meinrad Maria Hubert Michael Justinus Prince of Hohenzollern (born 14 April 1943 at Schloss Umkirch in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German marketing lawyer who has come to public attention as a result of his private life.
Ferfried of Hohenzollern is the youngest son of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (1891–1965) and Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony (1900–1962), daughter of the last Saxon King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony from the House of Wettin and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria. Pope Pius XII was his godfather.[1]
His first marriage, on 21 September 1968, was to Angela von Morgen (born 11 November 1942), daughter of Ernst von Morgen and Margarethe Gräfin von Görtz. They were divorced in 1973. They had two children, Valerie-Alexandra Henriette Margarethe (born 10 April 1969) and Stefanie Michaela Sigrid Birgitta (born 8 May 1971).
His second marriage, on 7 April 1977, was to Eliane (born 4 May 1947), daughter of Hans Etter and Irmgard Zosso. They were divorced in 1987. They had two children, Henriette Annabelle Gabriele Adrienne (born 26 March 1978) and Moritz Johannes Axel Peter Meinrad (born 5 May 1980).
In 1999 he married Synke Maja Meinert (born 8 October 1971). They were divorced in early March 2007.[2]
In 1971 Ferfried won the second 24-hour race at Nürburgring with a BMW 1600 Alpina. After 36 years of absence from active racing, in 2007 he raced again for the private racing team Racing Strip.com live, again in a BMW.[3][4]
In 2004 Ferfried acknowledged his relationship with Tatjana Gsell (born 21 May 1971) publicly. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Gsell stressed that their relationship did not begin until after Ferfried's separation from his third wife. They invited the media to participate extensively in their relationship, leading to the accusation that they were using their relationship to bring in revenue.[5]
From 8 May 2006 they broadcast a docu-soap called "Tatjana & Foffi – Aschenputtel wird Prinzessin" ("Tatjana & Foffi – Cinderella becomes a princess") in which the couple prepared for their planned wedding, but at this time Ferfried was still legally married to his third wife. According to reports from the Bild-Zeitung, the mid-2006 wedding stemmed from problems with Ferfried's divorce. In the last episode of the docu-soap, the couple separated; the planned wedding did not take place. In November 2006, each announced their permanent separation.[6]
Translator's note: These are in German.