page_title: Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
section_title: Abolition of monarchy and Jesuit priest
hierarchical_section_title: Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony / Abolition of monarchy and Jesuit priest
context_page_description: Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony or George the last Crown Prince of Saxony, was the heir to the King of Saxony, Frederick Augustus III, at the time of the monarchy's abolition on 13 November 1918.
  He later became a Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit.
context_section_description: When Germany lost the war, the monarchies in Germany collapsed. Georg's father abdicated on 13 November 1918.  This marked a fundamental turning point in his career planning.  In 1919, he decided to renounce his rights on the Saxon throne, and become a Catholic priest instead.  This decision was very controversial among people who hoped that the monarchy might one day be restored, and also met with significant concerns from the side of the Catholic Church.  For example, Franz Löbman, the Apostolic Vicar for Saxony and Lusatia, and Archbishop Adolf Bertram of Breslau initially held that Georg should continue to hold political responsibility for Saxony.  Nevertheless, Georg entered the Franciscan Order.
  Finding the Franciscan life too intellectually limiting, Georg soon applied to transfer to the Jesuits instead.  In the winter semester 1919/20, he studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen.  During this period, he joined the A.V. Guestfalia Tübingen.  In the next semester, he studied at the University of Breslau.
  In the winter semester 1920/21, he began studying theology at the University of Freiburg.  He joined the KDSt.V. Hohenstaufen and Saxo-Thuringia.  He completed this study in 1923.  In the same year, he formally renounced his rights to the Saxon throne and became a Jesuit priest.
  He was ordained as priest in Trzebnica on 15 July 1924 by Bishop Christian Schreiber of Meissen.  The next day, he celebrated his first mass at the royal palace in Szczodre (German: Sibyllenort.  His uncle Maximilian gave the homily during this service.  Thereafter, the prince was generally known as Pater Georg (Father George) and used the last name von Sachsen.  After his ordination, Georg worked as an auxiliary priest in his native Diocese of Meissen.
  He then continued his studies at the Jesuit Collegium Canisianum in Innsbruck.  In the fall of 1925, he joined the Upper German province of the Society of Jesus, however, in 1927, he switched to the East German province, which included his native Saxony.  From 1928 to 1930, he studied at a Jesuit college in Valkenburg.
  From 1933, he did pastoral work in Berlin.  He helped building the Jesuit residence Canisius College with the Catholic Gymnasium at Lietzensee.  He took his final vows in Berlin in 1936.  He gave lectures and spiritual exercises all over Germany.  In his lectures, he promoted ecumenism and in particular the Una Sancta movement.  Among his friends were spiritual leaders of different religions.
caption: The Crown Prince's standard. Georg was Saxony's last crown prince