Augustenborg is a municipality in south Denmark, in the county of South Jutland on the peninsula of Jutland. The municipality covers an area of 53 km², and has a total population of 6,390. The town is located on the island of Als and was annexed by Prussia in 1864 from Denmark, but was returned to Denmark in 1919 as the region has a clear Danish-speaking majority. Sønderjyllands Amt (English: South Jutland County) is a county in southern Denmark, on the peninsula of Jutland. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland, German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the mainland part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... ALS may refer to: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a form of motor neurone disease more commonly known as Lou Gehrigs disease or Maladie de Charcot Advanced Life Support, a protocolised form of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ...
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The town grew around a castle which Ernest Gunther, a member of the ducal house of Schleswig-Holstein (its branch of Sonderburg) and a cadet of the royal house of Denmark, caused built. The castle (and the town consequently) received the name in honor of Ernest's wife Auguste, herself also from a branch of dukes of Schleswig-Holstein. The castle became the chief seat of their line which used the name Augustenborg as its branch name. Later, a Danish king made the head of that line specifically Duke of Augustenborg. They grew in relative prominence in late 18th century, and in the 19th century Schleswig-Holstein Question, being the symbols of pro-German nationalistic movement in Schleswig-Holstein. The Augustenburg line died out in the 20th century. Duke of Augustenborg was a title conferred by King of Denmark to the head of a certain younger branch of the House of Oldenburg. ... The Schleswig-Holstein Question was the name given to the whole complex of diplomatic and other issues arising in the 19th century out of the relations of the two Elbe duchies, Schleswig and Holstein, to the Danish crown on the one hand and the German Confederation on the other, which...
See 11.211 - Wilhelm (who was also German Emperor) abdicated on 28 November 1918 having fled to Holland on 10 November 1918
See 35.42 - Friedrich became Duke of Schleswig-Holstein on 27 April 1931 following the extinction of the Augustenburg Branch on the death of Duke Albert of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
See 28.5212 - Ernest-Gunther was an unsavory character, he was a hard drinking course mannered cavalry officer as well as a gambler and womaniser.
Duke Frederick VIII (July 6, 1829 - January 14, 1880) (Friedrich Herzog von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg in German), was the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 1863, though almost nominally, as Prussia actually took overlordship and real administrative power.
He was the eldest son of Christian, Duke of Augustenburg and Louise Sophie, Countess Danneskjold-Samsø.
He was the ethnically perhaps most Danish prince of Danish royal dynasty in his generation (which was the generation when Denmark came to its most recent succession crisis, ch details accounted at his cousin's article: Louise of Hesse).
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