Heinrich XLV. (Reuss younger line)

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Heinrich XLV.
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Heinrich XLV. Prince Reuss younger line (born May 13, 1895 in Ebersdorf , † probably 1945 ) was a Reussian prince, head of the entire Reuss house from 1928 to 1945 and the last male representative of the Reuss-Schleiz line , a branch of the younger line .

Life

Heinrich XLV. was the son of the last reigning Russian prince Heinrich XXVII. and Princess Elise to Hohenlohe-Langenburg on Castle Ebersdorf born. He attended the Rutheneum grammar school in Gera and the Vitzthumsche grammar school in Dresden and served as a first lieutenant in the First World War . After the war he studied literature, musicology and philosophy in Leipzig , Marburg , Munich and Kiel .

He was a great theater lover and promoter and worked as a director, author, consultant and from 1923 as head of the dramaturgical department at the Reussian Theater in Gera. In 1931, together with Hans Oppenheim , he founded the Deutsche Musikbühne theater ensemble, which is organized as a touring theater . He resigned the management of this ensemble in 1934 after the national socialists brought this organization into line. Oppenheim had to give up the artistic direction of this ensemble as early as 1933 before his emigration.

Heinrich XLV. remained unmarried and childless and in 1935 adopted his relative Heinrich I (* 1910, † 1982) from the apanaged branch line Reuss-Köstritz. The adoption took place for inheritance reasons, successor to Heinrich XLV. as head of the Reuss Princely House, he was not to become.

Heinrich XLV., Who had sympathized with the National Socialists since the early 1930s and was a member of the NSDAP , was arrested and abducted by the Soviet military in Ebersdorf in August 1945 and has been missing since then. It is most likely that he was interned in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald and died there; However, his name is not recorded in any of the special camps' books of the dead . He was declared dead on January 5, 1962 by a court in Büdingen , retroactively to December 31, 1953. His entire fortune was with the war on the orders of the Soviet military administration confiscated and expropriated in 1948, including the Castle Ebersdorf , the hunting lodge Waidmannsheil , castle Thallwitz , Osterstein Castle in Gera well as buildings on Mohrenplatz in Gera- Untermhaus .

Successor to Heinrich XLV. Heinrich IV. Reuss-Köstritz (1919–2012) had been the head of the entire Reuss House since 1945.

See also

Works

  • The dying house ; Play in 1 act
  • Bridal birch ; Comedy in 1 act
  • The great hunt ; Dramatic poem
  • The miracle flower ; A fairy tale in 7 pictures, music by Georg Winkler, 1936

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c DBE. 2001: Heinrich Reuss.
  2. ^ OTZ.de: Lost in Buchenwald: Heinrich XLV. Reuss , accessed on August 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ See the article "Hans Oppenheim (musician)".
  4. ^ Lionel Gossman: Brownshirt Princess. A study of the "Nazi Conscience". Open Book Publishers, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-1-906924-07-2 , p. 68.
  5. ↑ http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe_Former_Reigning.htm , accessed on September 5, 2009
  6. ↑ Kerstin Ackermann: The "Wolfgang Rosenthal Clinic" Thallwitz / Saxony in the two German dictatorships. Gießen 2008, p. 51, (Gießen, Universität, Dissertation, 2008).
  7. ↑ Welt Online: Princely House Reuss receives the Thallwitz Castle back . Retrieved September 5, 2009.
  8. ↑ Administrative Court Gera, press release from January 26th, 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 5, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.thovg.thueringen.de  

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Reuss House. Older and younger line (= German Princely Houses. 19). 2nd, revised edition. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2006, ISBN 3-9810315-3-9 .
  • Reuss, Heinrich Erbprinz von, theater manager In: Walther Killy (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 8 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag; KG Sauer (paperback edition), Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-59053-X , p. 257 .

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personal data
SURNAME Heinrich XLV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich XLV. from Reuss younger line
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prince
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersdorf
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1945