Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen


Karl George Lebrecht of Anhalt-Köthen, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen.
He was the second son of Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, by his second wife Christine Johanna Emilie, daughter of Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz-Pless.

Life

As a young prince, Karl George Lebrecht served briefly in the Danish army and, from November 1751, in the Prussian army.
In 1755, he inherited Anhalt-Köthen after the death of his father.
Karl George Lebrecht was created a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle in 1780 and in 1787 was elevated to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall.
During the Turkish Wars of the 1780s he contracted a fever and died in Semlin near Belgrade.

Marriage and issue

In Glücksburg on 26 July 1763 Karl George Lebrecht married Louise Charlotte, daughter of Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and by birth a princess of Denmark as descendant in the male line of King Christian III. They had six children:
  1. Karoline Louise.
  2. Augustus Christian Frederick, Prince and from 1806 first Duke of Anhalt-Köthen.
  3. Karl William.
  4. Louise Friederike.
  5. Louis.
  6. Fredericka Wilhelmine.