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Frederick William IV: Quick Facts

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Born October 15, 1795 • Germany
Died January 2, 1861 (aged 65) • Potsdam • Germany
Title / Office king (1840-1861), Prussia
Notable Family Members father Frederick William III • brother William I
Role In Punctation of Olmütz • Revolutions of 1848

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Frederick William IV of Prussia stands in full military uniform with epaulets, holding a plumed hat, next to a table draped with a patterned cloth.
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Felix, prince zu Schwarzenberg
prime minister of Austria
Portrait painting of Frederick II of Brandenburg, King of Prussia, wearing a dark coat with a star medal, yellow gloves, and holding a cane, with the inscription Fridericus II Rex Prussiae.
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
prime minister of Prussia
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
Karl August von Hardenberg
Prussian statesman
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general
Frederick William I
Frederick William I
king of Prussia
Painting by Antoine Pesne showing King Frederick I seated on an ornate silver throne, wearing elaborate royal robes and holding a scepter, with a crown on a table beside him.
Frederick I
king of Prussia
Joseph Maria von Radowitz.
Joseph Maria von Radowitz
Prussian diplomat
August, Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau
August, Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau
Prussian field marshal
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt
Prussian field marshal
Frederick William II
Frederick William II
king of Prussia
Hertzberg, detail from a miniature by Gustav Taubert, 1792
Ewald Friedrich, count von Hertzberg
Prussian statesman
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst
Prussian general
Haugwitz, drawing, before 1776; in the Lavater portrait collection
Christian, count von Haugwitz
Prussian minister and diplomat
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prussian noble
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Leopold I
prince of Anhalt-Dessau
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Edwin, Freiherr von Manteuffel
Prussian general
Frederick III, 1884
Frederick III
king of Prussia and emperor of Germany

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