The children were educated by private tutors in a prince's school established by their father at the Saxon court.

Georg became Saxony's crown prince at age eleven, when his father acceded to the throne in 1904.

After graduating from high school in 1912, Georg studied political sciences for three months at the University of Breslau.

[3] In 1915, Kaiser Wilhelm II granted him the Iron Cross first class "in recognition of the services he rendered in the recent battles.".

[4] On 30 November 1917, he was promoted to major and made commander of the 5th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" No.

This decision was very controversial among people who hoped that the monarchy might one day be restored, and also met with significant concerns from the side of the Catholic Church.

[5] Finding the Franciscan life too intellectually limiting, Georg soon applied to transfer to the Jesuits instead.

The next day, he celebrated his first mass at his family's royal palace of Sibyllenort (now in Szczodre, Poland).

He helped build up the Jesuit residence Canisius College with the Catholic Gymnasium at Lietzensee.

After taking his final vows in Berlin in 1936, he gave lectures and the spiritual exercises all over Germany.

During one of his many lectures, he said in Meissen in 1929, referring to the increasing antisemitic agitation by some right-wing parties: "Love is the order of the day in the relationship between Catholics and Protestant, and also to our Jewish fellow citizens".

The former prince died on 14 May 1943 apparently while swimming in the Groß Glienicke Lake in Berlin, Germany.

[9] Georg's diary was found on the lakeshore with a final Latin entry reading Vado ad patrem,[5] which is the Latin version of a phrase Jesus frequently spoke to his disciples in the Gospel of John and means "I go to the Father" or "I go to my Father.

Some people, including his brother Ernst Heinrich expressed doubts that his death had been an accident.

[5] He was buried in the Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony, today known as the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, in Dresden on 16 June 1943.