Philip, Prince of Eulenburg
Philip Frederick Alexander, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld, Count of Sandels, in German Philipp Friedrich Alexander Frst zu Eulenburg und Hertefeld, Graf von Sandels was a politician and diplomat of Imperial Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also a composer and writer. In 1907, he was at the center of a homosexual scandal that not only ended his career but had major political repercussions.
Eulenburg was born at Knigsberg, Province of Prussia, the eldest son of Philipp Konrad, Count zu Eulenburg and his wife, Alexandrine Freiin von Rothkirch und Panthen . The Eulenburgs were a Junker family which belonged to the Uradel . For generations the family had served the House of Hohenzollern his uncle Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg served as Interior Minister of Prussia, as did his cousin Botho zu Eulenburg. The Eulenburgs, though Junkers, were impoverished aristocracy and until 1867 depended entirely upon Philipp von Eulenburgs salary as a captain in the Prussian Army. In 1867 Baron Karl von Hertefeld died without any children or surviving siblings, and in his will left his entire fortune and two gigantic estates at Liebenberg and Hertefeld to his favorite niece, Eulenburgs mother. At one stoke, the Eulenburgs become one of the richest families in Prussia, but Captain von Eulenburg was unable to overcome his long years in poverty, and he had a miserly attitude to spending mone
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