Albrecht of Wurttemberg (23 December 1865 – 31 October 1939) was the Duke of Wurttemberg from 11 October 1917 to 30 November 1918, succeeding Philipp of Wurttemberg.
Biography[]
Albrecht of Wurttemberg was born on 23 December 1865 in Vienna, Austrian Empire, the son of Duke Philipp of Wurttemberg and an archduchess of Austria. Albrecht became a soldier in the Imperial German Army in 1885, rising through the ranks due to his royal connections; he was related to King Wilhelm II of Wurttemberg. At the start of World War I, he was given command of an army during the invasion of Belgium and northern France. Duke Albrecht commanded German forces at the Second Battle of Ypres, where poison gas was used in battle for the first time. In February 1917, he became an army group commander with the rank of Field Marshal, and he commanded German troops on the southern sector of the Western Front until the 11 November 1918 armistice. On 2 October 1921, he became the head of the House of Wurttemberg after the death of his cousin Wilhelm II, but he would never reign as king, as the November Revolution established the Weimar Republic in the place of the German Empire. Albrecht died in Althausen, Nazi Germany in 1939.