Ernst Leopold Prinz zur Lippe

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Ernst zur Lippe during the Nuremberg Trials.

Ernst Leopold Chlodwig Julius Alexis Wilhelm Heinrich Hereditary Prince zur Lippe (born June 12, 1902 in Detmold ; † May 24, 1987 there ) was a German nobleman and party official. Between 1905 and 1918 he was the last Hereditary Prince of the Principality of Lippe . During the time of National Socialism he acted a. a. as chief adjutant to the Reich Minister and Reich Leader Walther Darré .

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Ernst zur Lippe was the eldest son of the last reigning Prince Leopold IV zur Lippe, who renounced his throne on November 12, 1918 in the course of the November Revolution . Between 1905 and 1918 he was the last Hereditary Prince of the Principality of Lippe. His mother was Princess Bertha von Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1874-1919), a daughter of Wilhelm von Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld .

In his youth, Lippe was first taught by private tutors in order to then attend the Oberrealschule in Gummersbach. He then studied agriculture and philosophy in Halle an der Saale for a few semesters. He later changed his vocational training and completed a commercial apprenticeship at AEG in Berlin. In 1925 he became chief accountant and head of an accounting department, which he remained until 1930. From 1930 to 1932 Lippe was the accounting manager at the Hotel Prinz Albrecht in Berlin before he became unemployed in 1932.

Politically, Lippe joined the NSDAP at the end of the 1920s ( membership number 88.835), which he joined in early May 1928. He was the first hereditary prince of a German princely dynasty to become a member of the party. At the same time he joined the NSDAP task force, the SA .

After the NSDAP came to power , Lippe received a post as head of accounting in the German Labor Front in 1933 , before he was head of a department in the personnel office there until 1938.

From 1938 to 1939 Lippe officiated through a cousin of his father -  Marie Adelheid Princess Reuss zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1895–1993) - initially as the second adjutant of Walther Darré , the Minister of Agriculture of the Nazi government and "Reichsbauernführer". He then became one of three main adjutants in Darrés in 1939. He was responsible for Darré's activity as Reichsleiter of the NSDAP, while Erich Mann's Darré's adjutant as Reichsbauernführer and Mengedodt was his adjutant as minister. Lippe had his official seat in the Reichsamt für Agrarpolitik , acted as a liaison between this Reichsamt in Munich and Darré in Berlin and processed the mail that came up in this connection. During this time Lippe became a member of the SS (SS-No. 314.184) and was appointed SS-Sturmbannführer . He was listed in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) and, during the Second World War, organized the settlement of war-disabled SS members as farmers in the areas annexed by the German Reich of Poland in 1939 - and incorporated into the German Reich as Warthegau the Vistula and around Posen . After Darré's dismissal in 1942, Lippe returned to the German Labor Front, for which he remained active until 1945, first in the personnel office, then in the trade department as a personnel officer.

At the end of the war, Lippe was taken prisoner by the Allies. He took part in the Nuremberg trials as a witness and was later assigned to class III (less burdened) by the tribunal in the Detmold administrative district in the course of denazification .

After his father's death in 1949, Lippe's younger half-brother Armin Prinz zur Lippe (1924–2015) from his father's second marriage to Princess Anna von Ysenburg-Büdingen, widowed Princess von Lippe-Weissenfeld (1886–1980), assumed the position of new head of the house of Lippe . Lippe had been passed over by his father in his will.

He was a cousin of Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld , the prince consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.

Marriages and offspring

In 1924 he married Charlotte Ricken (1900–1974) in Berlin, from whom he was divorced in 1935 and who married the businessman Richard Busolt (* 1894) in Berlin in 1938. Prinz zur Lippe married Hertha-Elise (Helga) Weiland (1911–1970), daughter of the engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Weiland, in Berlin in 1937. Only the second marriage had children: the doctor Ernst-Leopold Prinz zur Lippe (* 1940) and Victoria Princess zur Lippe (1943–1988), who was married to Wolfram Wickert from 1968 to 1977 and from 1984 to the art dealer Christoph Pudelko (1932 -2017).

literature

  • Hereditary Prince Ernst zur Lippe , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/1951 of September 24, 1951, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  • Stephan Malinowski : From King to Leader. Social decline and political radicalization in the German nobility between the German Empire and the Nazi state ( Elitenwandel in der Moderne Volume 4). 3rd, through Ed., Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003 (on Ernst Leopold: p. 562).
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustavo Corni , Horst Gies : Bread - Butter - Kanonen: The food industry in Germany under Hitler's dictatorship
  2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Obituary notice Christoph Pudelko (2017)
  3. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Princely Houses , Volume XV, Volume 114 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. 48 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lippe, Ernst Leopold Prinz zur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippe, Ernst Leopold Chlodwig Julius Alexis Wilhelm Heinrich zur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1987
Place of death Detmold