George Christian grew up with his brother at the court in Aurich. After 1649, they received further education at the academies of Breda and T*bingen. In T*bingen he met his future wife, Christine Charlotte, a daughter of Duke Eberhard III of W*rttemberg from his first marriage to Anna Dorothea of Salm-Kyrburg. He could only marry her after had he received the hereditary title of Imperial Prince on 18 April 1662.
Christine Charlotte
Anna Dorothea