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Joachim Franz (born 17 December 1890) is a Prince of Prussia and the sixth and youngest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II. During the Weltkrieg, Joachim was briefly considered as a candidate for the Irish throne and later, in 1917, for the Georgian throne. In Georgian royalist, pro-German circles, Joachim is still handled as a possible future king should Georgia become a monarchy again one day, an idea that is rejected by Georgian nationalists, however.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Prince Joachim was born in Potsdam, the sixth and youngest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his first wife, Empress Augusta Viktoria. Educated, along with his brothers, in the Prinzenhaus, he joined the 1st Footguard Regiment in 1911. During the Weltkrieg, he was wounded at the Battle of the Masurian Lakes. He was married in 1916 to Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt, but their marriage was strained.
Candidate for thrones[]
During the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, some republican leaders, contemplated giving the throne of an independent Ireland to Prince Joachim. It thought that if the rising were successful and Germany won the First World War, an independent Ireland would be a monarchy with a German prince as king, like Romania and Bulgaria before it.
After Georgia's declaration of independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Joachim was briefly considered by the German representative Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg and Georgian royalists as a candidate to the Georgian throne.
Family[]
Prince Joachim married on 11 March 1916 with Princess Marie Auguste Von Anhalt-Dessau (born on 10 June 1898), daughter of Prince Eduard Georg Wilhelm of Anhalt. Together, they had a son, Karl Franz Josef Wilhelm Friedrich Eduard, born on 15 December 1916.