father predecessor house succession mother birth_place death_date death_place religion birth_date spouse issue image article_title name reign
george of saxony george house of wettin king of saxony maria anna of portugal dresden 18 february 1932 sibyllenort roman catholicism 25 may 1865 archduchess louise of austria georg margrave of meissen prince ernst heinrich princess maria alix karola , princess margarete karola princess maria alix luitpolda princess anna crown prince of saxony friedrich christian , fa3 of saxony.png frederick augustus iii of saxony
 frederick augustus iii 15 october 1904 -- 13 november 1918
frederick augustus iii of saxony

frederick augustus iii -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 25 may 1865 , dresden -- 18 february 1932 , sibyllenort -rrb- was the last king of saxony -lrb- 1904 -- 1918 -rrb- and a member of the house of wettin .
born in dresden , frederick augustus was the first son of king george and his wife , maria anna of portugal .
frederick augustus served in the royal saxon army before becoming king , and later was promoted to generalfeldmarschall .
though well-loved by his subjects , he voluntarily abdicated as king on 13 november 1918 , after the defeat of the german empire in world war i .
he died in sibyllenort -lrb- now szczodre -rrb- in lower silesia and was buried in dresden .
