Prince Ferfried of Hohenzollern
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Ferfried Maximilian Pius Meinrad Maria Hubert Michael Justinus Prince of Hohenzollern (born 14 April 1943 at Schloss Umkirch
Umkirch
Umkirch is a municipality in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located around 5 kilometres west of Freiburg im Breisgau.-History:...

 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German marketing lawyer who has come to public attention as a result of his private life.

Biography

Ferfried of Hohenzollern is the youngest son of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern (1891–1965) and Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony
Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony
Princess Margarete Karola Wilhelmine Viktoria Adelheid Albertine Petrusa Bertram Paula of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony was the fifth...

 (1900–1962), daughter of the last Saxon King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
This article is about King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. For the elector Frederick Augustus III, see Frederick Augustus I of Saxony.Frederick Augustus III was the last King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.Born in Dresden, Frederick Augustus was the son of King George of Saxony...

 from the House of Wettin and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria. Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII
The Venerable Pope Pius XII , born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli , reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958....

 was his godfather.

His first marriage, on 21 September 1968, was to Angela von Morgen (born 11 November 1942), daughter of Ernst von Morgen and Margarethe Gräfin von Görtz. They were divorced in 1973. They had two children, Valerie-Alexandra Henriette Margarethe (born 10 April 1969) and Stefanie Michaela Sigrid Birgitta (born 8 May 1971).

His second marriage, on 7 April 1977, was to Eliane (born 4 May 1947), daughter of Hans Etter and Irmgard Zosso. They were divorced in 1987. They had two children, Henriette Annabelle Gabriele Adrienne (born 26 March 1978) and Moritz Johannes Axel Peter Meinrad (born 5 May 1980).

In 1999 he married Synke Maja Meinert (born 8 October 1971). They were divorced in early March 2007.

In 1971 Ferfried won the second 24-hour race at Nürburgring
Nürburgring
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...

 with a BMW 1600 Alpina. After 36 years of absence from active racing, in 2007 he raced again for the private racing team Racing Strip.com live, again in a BMW.

In 2004 Ferfried acknowledged his relationship with Tatjana Gsell (born 21 May 1971) publicly. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Gsell stressed that their relationship did not begin until after Ferfried's separation from his third wife. They invited the media to participate extensively in their relationship, leading to the accusation that they were using their relationship to bring in revenue.

From 8 May 2006 they broadcast a docu-soap called "Tatjana & Foffi – Aschenputtel wird Prinzessin" ("Tatjana & Foffi – Cinderella becomes a princess") in which the couple prepared for their planned wedding, but at this time Ferfried was still legally married to his third wife. According to reports from the Bild-Zeitung
Bild-Zeitung
The Bild is a German tabloid published by Axel Springer AG. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday, while on Sundays, Bild am Sonntag is published instead, which has a different style and its own editors...

, the mid-2006 wedding stemmed from problems with Ferfried's divorce. In the last episode of the docu-soap, the couple separated; the planned wedding did not take place. In November 2006, each announced their permanent separation.

Ancestry

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