Adolf II (Schaumburg-Lippe)
Adolf II. Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (born February 23, 1883 in Stadthagen ; † March 26, 1936 in Mexico ) was the last ruling Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1911 to 1918 . In the few years of his reign he shaped the townscape of Bad Eilsen as the client . He abdicated on November 15, 1918.
Life
His parents were Prince Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1846-1911) and Marie Anna von Sachsen-Altenburg (1864-1918), the daughter of Prince Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg .
The construction of the huge mausoleum in Bückeburg was to be the beginning of the construction of a large museum and art area in Bückeburg and Bad Eilsen. The Princely Arts and Crafts School, from which the Fürst-Adolf-Werkstätte für Kunstkeramik later emerged, and the Princely Music School in Bückeburg, which later became the Army Music School, were carried out . Her most famous student was James Last . The First World War prevented further planning . The spa town of Bad Eilsen near Bückeburg still benefits today from the construction program that began in the First World War. All of the large buildings still in use today were completed by the early 1920s and established Bad Eilsen's reputation as a bath for princes and kings in the famous Roaring Twenties .
Adolf II. Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe renounced his throne in the November Revolution on November 15, 1918 as one of the last remaining monarchs in Germany . The government for the federal state of Schaumburg-Lippe was taken over by the workers 'and soldiers' council in Bückeburg until the situation was finally reorganized .
On January 10, 1920, he married the actress Elisabeth Franziska (Ellen) Bischoff-Korthaus (1894–1936) in Berlin . Best man was the heraldist and genealogist Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz . The marriage remained childless.
Adolf and his wife were killed on March 26, 1936 in a plane crash in Mexico near the Popocatépetl volcano , Zompango ( Amecameca ). He was inherited by his siblings. His youngest brother Friedrich Christian Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe , adjutant of Joseph Goebbels , spoke out against having the wife buried next to her husband in the Bückeburg mausoleum, as she was not of "Aryan origin".
At that time their domicile was on Brioni (then Italy, now Croatia). Her domicile in Germany was Villa Schaumburg in Höllriegelskreuth (Pullach).
The Secret State Police Office (Gestapo, address Berlin SW11, Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8) had verifiably investigated them since June 11, 1934 (file number Tgb. No. III 3 1424/34). They were denounced by Kurt von Behr , a Gestapo agent in Spain and Italy at the time. From 1932 to 1934 he headed the NSDAP organizational structure in Italy.
Since 1905 Adolf had been a corps bow bearer of Borussia Bonn .
ancestors
| Georg Wilhelm (Schaumburg-Lippe) (1784–1860) | |||||||||||||
| Adolf I. Georg (Schaumburg-Lippe) (1817–1893) | |||||||||||||
| Ida zu Waldeck-Pyrmont (1796–1869) | |||||||||||||
| Georg (Schaumburg-Lippe) (1846–1911) | |||||||||||||
| George II (Waldeck-Pyrmont) (1789–1845) | |||||||||||||
| Hermine zu Waldeck-Pyrmont (1827–1910) | |||||||||||||
| Emma von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802-1858) | |||||||||||||
| Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe | |||||||||||||
| Georg (Saxony-Altenburg) (1796-1853) | |||||||||||||
| Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg (1829–1907) | |||||||||||||
| Marie of Mecklenburg (1803-1862) | |||||||||||||
| Marie Anna of Sachsen-Altenburg (1864–1918) | |||||||||||||
| Bernhard II (Saxony-Meiningen) (1800–1882) | |||||||||||||
| Auguste von Sachsen-Meiningen (1843-1919) | |||||||||||||
| Marie of Hessen-Kassel (1804–1888) | |||||||||||||
literature
- Alexander vom Hofe: Four princes of Schaumburg-Lippe and the parallel system of injustices. Vierprinzen SL, Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-609-8523-7 ( online version )
- Alexander vom Hofe: Four Princes zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Kammler and von Behr. Vierprinzen SL, Madrid, 2013, ISBN 978-84-615-5450-8 .
- Wilhelm Gerntrup: The mausoleum in the castle park. Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe and the mausoleum in Bückeburg. Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-87536-284-8 .
Web links
- Files on the abdication of Prince Adolf, 1918-1928, 28 sheets on Kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Gerntrup: The mausoleum in the castle grounds . Gifkendorf 2010, p. 19th ff .
- ↑ Dieter Brosius: From the monarchy to the republic. The foundation of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe. in: Schaumburg-Lippische Mitteilungen 19 (1968), pp. 47-60
- ↑ schaumburger-zeitung.de: Death on Popocatépetl by Wilhelm Gerntrup , accessed on October 24, 2011.
- ↑ a b Certificate of Inheritance
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1960, 9/881.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| George |
Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe 1911–1918 |
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| George |
Head of the Schaumburg-Lippe house from 1911–1936 |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Adolf II |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | last ruling prince of Schaumburg-Lippe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stadthagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1936 |
| Place of death | Mexico |