(Abolished 13 November 1918)
King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
Frederick Augustus III was the last King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
He voluntarily abdicated as king on 13 November 1918.
When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly.
He said: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better."
Upon abdicating, he is supposed to have said "Nu da machd doch eiern Drägg alleene!" (
Saxon for "Well then do your sh... by yourselves!").
When cheered by a crowd in a railroad station several years after his abdication, he stuck his head out of the train's window and shouted, "You're a fine lot of republicans, I'll say!"
After his father's abdication, in 1919 Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony his first-born son and heir renounced his rights on the Saxon throne, to become a Catholic priest.
 This was very controversial among people who hoped that the monarchy might one day be restored.
He worked in Berlin where he was credited with protecting Jews from the Nazi regime in notable contrast to his pro-Nazi brothers-in-law, Prince Frederich of Hohenzollern and Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzolllern-Emden, who joined the SS.
As a leading Roman Catholic nobleman and near relative of the Habsburg, Bourbon, and Saxon dynasties, Prince Franz Joseph did much to lend respectability to the Nazi party.
(Abolished 13 November 1918)
King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
Frederick Augustus III was the last King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin. He voluntarily abdicated as king on 13 November 1918. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. He said: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better." Upon abdicating, he is supposed to have said "Nu da machd doch eiern Drägg alleene!" (Saxon for "Well then do your sh... by yourselves!"). When cheered by a crowd in a railroad station several years after his abdication, he stuck his head out of the train's window and shouted, "You're a fine lot of republicans, I'll say!" After his father's abdication, in 1919 Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony his first-born son and heir renounced his rights on the Saxon throne, to become a Catholic priest.  This was very controversial among people who hoped that the monarchy might one day be restored. He worked in Berlin where he was credited with protecting Jews from the Nazi regime in notable contrast to his pro-Nazi brothers-in-law, Prince Frederich of Hohenzollern and Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzolllern-Emden, who joined the SS. As a leading Roman Catholic nobleman and near relative of the Habsburg, Bourbon, and Saxon dynasties, Prince Franz Joseph did much to lend respectability to the Nazi party.
Former German nobility in the Nazi Party