Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe

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Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe

Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe , full name Adolf Wilhelm Viktor zu Schaumburg-Lippe (born July 20, 1859 in Bückeburg , † July 9, 1916 in Bonn ) was a German prince from the house of Schaumburg-Lippe and a Prussian general of the cavalry . In the years from 1895 to 1897 he led the reign of the Principality of Lippe-Detmold for Prince Alexander zur Lippe-Detmold .

Life

Adolf was the fourth son of Prince Adolf I Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1817-1893) and his wife Hermine (1827-1910), the youngest daughter of Prince Georg II zu Waldeck and Pyrmont and Princess Emma von Anhalt-Bernburg- Schaumburg-Hoym.

Together with his five years older brother Otto Heinrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe , he was educated from 1872 to 1874 by Hubert Maximilian Ermisch (1850-1932). Ermisch later became a noted archivist and historian.

In 1890, Prince Adolf and Princess Viktoria Friederike Amalie of Prussia met while visiting Princess Marie zu Wied-Neuwied, mother of Queen Elisabeth of Romania . On November 19, 1890 he married in Berlin Princess Victoria of Prussia (1866-1929), the second daughter of the German Emperor Frederick III. and his wife, the Princess Royal Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland . After an extended honeymoon in different countries, the couple took up residence in the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn. After a miscarriage, the marriage remained childless.

In view of the childlessness of Prince Woldemar zur Lippe-Detmold (1824-1895) and his incapacitated brother Alexander zur Lippe-Detmold (1831-1905), and the resulting difficulties for the succession, Woldemar tried to prejudice the events. Due to personal aversion and inspired by the desire to bequeath his land to a member of a ruling princely house, he appointed Prince Adolf, the brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II , to be his successor in his will and thus sparked the Lippe throne dispute. Three related families fought about the succession: the princely line of Schaumburg-Lippe and the two counts of the lines Lippe-Biesterfeld and Lippe-Weißenfeld .

With the intervention of the German emperor, the resulting dispute in the Lippe succession aroused world interest. In 1895 an agreement was reached between the state parliament and the regent Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe, according to which they wanted to submit to an arbitration decision up to which the latter should lead the regency. This decision was made on June 22, 1897 by an arbitral tribunal chaired by King Albert I of Saxony , whereby the right of succession of Count Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1842-1904) was recognized.

Adolf served in the Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I" (1st Rheinisches) No. 7, which had been stationed in Bonn since 1852 . He also stood à la suite of the Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7 in Bückeburg. During the First World War he was in charge of the Deputy General Command of the VIII Army Corps in Bonn.

He was a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn (1882) and the Corps Saxonia Göttingen (1890).

Titles, medals and honors

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Literature on the Lippe succession dispute
predecessor Office successor
Woldemar Regent of Lippe
1895–1897 		Ernst to Lippe-Biesterfeld

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family tree ( memento of October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Princely past
  3. ↑ From the millionaire's villa to the seat of the chancellor
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 19 , 572; 85 , 432
  5. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907. P. 30.
  6. ↑ Prussian War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1914. p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Schaumburg-Lippe, Adolf zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaumburg-Lippe, Adolf Wilhelm Viktor to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, prince from the house of Schaumburg-Lippe
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1916
Place of death Bonn