Karl, Prince of Leiningen (Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich; 12 September 1804 – 13 November 1856) was the third Prince of Leiningen and maternal half-brother of Queen Victoria. Leiningen served as a Bavarian lieutenant general, before he briefly played an important role in German politics as the first Prime Minister of the Provisorische Zentralgewalt government formed by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848.
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A member of the Hardenburg branch of the House of Leiningen, Karl was born in Amorbach on 12 September 1804, the son of Prince Emich Karl of Leiningen (1763–1814) by his second marriage with Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786–1861). He was the only son, as Emich Karl's son by his first wife, Friedrich, had died in 1800.