Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the last reigning prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1849. Afterwards, he continued to
Karl Anton in 1858
Portrait of Karl Anton by Richard Lauchert, 1852
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (later Emperor Wilhelm I) in about 1840. He appointed Karl Anton Minister President in 1858.
Sigmaringen Castle on the Danube River, the ancestral home of the princes of Sigmaringen-Hohenzollern
Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern was the head of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and played a fleeting role in European power politics in connection with the Franco-Prussian War.
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (born 1811)
…1862, the only Hohenzollern prince to hold that post. His second son, Karl, became king of Romania. The offer of the throne of Spain to his eldest son, Leopold, was one of the causes of the Franco-Prussian War, which led to the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire. Karl Anton was born…
Emgraving of Leopold by Richard Brend'amour, 1895–96