Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (German:
| Karl Anton | |||||
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| Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | |||||
| 27 August 1848 – 7 December 1849 | |||||
| Predecessor | Karl | ||||
| Successor | Annexed by Prussia | ||||
| Prince of Hohenzollern | |||||
| 3 September 1869 – 2 June 1885 | |||||
| Successor | Leopold | ||||
| Minister President of Prussia | |||||
| 6 November 1858 – 12 March 1862 | |||||
| Predecessor | Otto Theodor von Manteuffel | ||||
| Successor | Adolf of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen | ||||
| Born | 7 September 1811 Krauchenwies, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | ||||
| Died | 2 June 1885 (aged 73) Sigmaringen, German Empire | ||||
| Spouse | Princess Josephine of Baden | ||||
| Issue | Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern Stephanie, Queen of Portugal Carol I, King of Romania Prince Anthony Prince Frederick Princess Marie, Countess of Flanders | ||||
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| House | Hohenzollern | ||||
| Father | Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | ||||
| Mother | Marie Antoinette Murat | ||||
Karl Anton, Prince Of Hohenzollern Media
Sigmaringen Castle on the Danube River, the ancestral home of the princes of Sigmaringen-Hohenzollern
Karl Anton Joachim Zephyrinus Friedrich Meinrad Fürst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) (7 September 1811 – 2 June 1885) was the last prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1849. Afterwards he continued to be titular prince of his house and, with the death of the last prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen in 1869, of the entire House of Hohenzollern. He served as Minister President of Prussia from 1858 to 1862, the only Hohenzollern prince to hold the 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.