Louis-Ferdinand wwhen natural as a third within succession to a potty above the German Empire, when his father, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and elder brother Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. A monarchy was abolished when Germany's kill around World War I. Since Prince Wilhelm renounced his potty to marry the common person around 1933 (later to exist as flushed witharound action within France in 1940 fighting in the German army), Louis-Ferdinand took over in the line of succession.

Louis-Ferdinand was educated within Berlin and deviated from his personal's tradition by non pursuing the military career. Instead, he travelled extensively & settled for occasionally period within Detroit, where he befriended Henry Ford and became acquainted with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, among others. He held a great interest within engineering. Recalled from either a United States upon his brother's renounciation of the throne, he had exposed in the German aviation industry, but was barred by Hitler from taking any active a portion around German military activities.

Louis-Ferdin& disassociated himself from either a Nazis fallowing this, and could possibly own been required in the July 20 Plot against Hitler in 1944.

He married a Grand Duchess Kira Kirilovna of Russia in 1938 in first the Russian Orthodox in Potsdam and then Protestant ceremony in Huis ten Doorn, Netherlands. It experienced foursome sons & ternion girl. His boy Prince Louis-Ferdinand II died in 1977 during military maneuvers, & a todays heir to the Prussian & Purple potty and head of the Hohenzollern family is Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia.

Fallowing a reunion of Germany, Louis-Ferdinand intended to develop a remains of many Hohenzollern members reinterred at a imperial vault around Potsdam.