Fredrich III

Luise of Tuscany (2 September 1870 Salzburg–23 March 1947) was born in Salzburg under the name Luise Antoinette Maria Theresia Josepha Johanna Leopoldine Caroline Ferdinande Alice Ernestine Habsburg, Princess Imperial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, Princess of Tuscany. She was a daughter of Ferdinand IV of Tuscany and his second wife Alicia of Bourbon-Parma.

On 21 November 1891 she married Frederik Augustus of Saxony in Vienna. She was very popular in Saxony. She didn't follow the etiquette at the court which resulted in arguments with her father in law. On 9 December 1902 she left Saxony without her children but pregnant with her youngest daughter. For a while she lived with the teacher of her children, André Giron. She was divorced 11 February 1903. Her last child with Friedrich August was sent to Dresden to live at the court. Her father awarded her the title of Countess of Montignoso. On 25 September 1907 she married the musician Enrico Toselli in London. They where divorced five years later. She died in poverty in Brussells in 1947.

Had three children with his wife Luise but she left him during pregnancy number 4. The marriage was terminated in 1903. He succeeded his father in 1904. When he abdicated in 1918 he famously said: "you'll just have to do your dirty business without my help!" He was the only german royalty that only renounced his own rights for the throne, but not his family's rights. The over 800 year lasting reign of House Wettin ended with his abdication.

Prince Georg of Saxony (1893-1943) gave up his succession rights to become a Jesuit priest in 1923. During WWII he helped conceal Jews, and was consequently murdered by the Nazis.

The third largest contingent in the German army behind Prussia and Bavaria.