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{{Infobox royalty
|name=Prince Oskar
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1959|5|6|df=y}}
|father=[[Prince Oskar of Prussia#Marriage and issue|Prince Wilhelm Karl of Prussia]]
|mother=Armgard von Veltheim
|full name=''Oskar Michael Hans Karl Prinz von Preußen''
|spouse=Auguste Zimmermann von Siefart
|issue=[[Prince Oskar of Prussia (b. 1993)|Prince Oskar]]<br>[[Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (b. 1995)|Princess Wilhelmine]]<br>[[Prince Albert of Prussia (b. 1998)|Prince Albert]]
}}

'''Prince Oskar of Prussia''' (''Oskar Michael Hans Karl Prinz von Preußen''; 6 May 1959) is a member of the [[House of Hohenzollern]] and the thirty-seventh ''Herrenmeister'' ("Master of the Knights") of the [[Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)|''Johanniterorden'']], having succeeded his father in the position in 1999. Prince Oskar holds a doctorate in history.

==Biography==
Prince Oskar was born in [[Bonn]], [[Germany]], the son of [[Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia]] and his wife, Armgard von Veltheim (who was born in 1926).  He is the great-grandson of the last German emperor, [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II]], descending through Wilhelm II’s fifth son, [[Prince Oskar of Prussia]] (who served as the thirty-fifth Herrenmeister of the ''[[Johanniterorden]]'').  Despite his grandfather’s morganatic marriage to [[Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz|Ina-Marie von Bassewitz, Countess of Ruppin]], Prince Oskar’s dynastic claim is still believed legitimate by some who subscribe to Hohenzollern House Law  - alleged invoked by Wilhelm II to formally recognize Oskar's and Ina-Maria's family as dynastic.  If this ruling carries legal weight, Prince Oskar is fourth in the current [[line of succession to the German throne]].

===Marriage and issue===
Oskar was married to Auguste Zimmermann von Siefart (born in [[Amsterdam]], the [[Netherlands]], on May 16, 1962) on October 3, 1992.  The couple have three children:  an older son, Oskar Julius Alvo Carlos, Prince of Prussia (born in 1993); a daughter, Wilhelmine, Princess of Prussia (1995); and a younger son, Albert Burchard Carl Marcus Nikolaus, Prince of Prussia (1998).  Oskar and Albert rank fifth and sixth in the [[line of succession to the former German throne]].

==References==
This article was condensed from the parallel entry in the German Wikipedia, where a list of sources may be found.

A list of the Herrenmeisters of the ''Johanniterorden'' can be found on the German language Wikipedia page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanniterorden#Kapitel_und_Ordensregierung

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| NAME              = Prince Oskar Of Prussia
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Oskar Michael Hans Karl Prinz von Preußen
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| DATE OF BIRTH     = 6 May 1959
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Bonn, Germany
| DATE OF DEATH     =
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