Brandenburg-Schwedt his dominions and furnishing his castle in a Baroque style at great expense. His younger brother Albert Frederick (1672–1731) became a general lieutenant and Grand Master of the Order of Saint John; the third-born, Charles Philip (1673–1695) likewise became an officer and shortly before his death secretly married the Piemontese noblewoman Caterina di Balbiano, who called herself "Madame de Brandebourg" as a widow. The youngest of Dorothea's sons was Margrave Christian Ludwig (1677–1734), officer and administrator of Halberstadt, the honoree of Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos". The brisk building activity was continued by Philipp William's son and successor, Margrave Frederick William (1700-1771).
2004 Brandenburg state election 2004 Brandenburg state election The Brandenburg state election, 2004, was conducted on 19 September 2004, to elect members to the Landtag of Brandenburg, the state legislature of Brandenburg. Before Brandenburg, the SPD had lost many state elections, what was connected to Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010 policy, which was a reaction to the problems of constantly high unemployment in Germany. The establishing of a lower welfare payment (called "Hartz IV" after an expert who had invented it) for people unemployed for more than a year had driven many voters to the left Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) party in the east,