Nicholas of Oldenburg

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Hereditary Grand Duke Nicholas, around 1910

Nikolaus Friedrich Wilhelm von Oldenburg (born August 10, 1897 in Oldenburg , † April 3, 1970 in Rastede ) was the last Hereditary Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg until 1918 .

Life

He was the son of Grand Duke Friedrich August von Oldenburg and his second wife Elisabeth , née Duchess of Mecklenburg. He served in the Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19 . With the abdication of his father as Grand Duke on November 11, 1918 in the course of the November Revolution , Nicholas lost his status as heir to the throne. From the death of his father on February 24, 1931 until his death, Nikolaus was head of the House of Oldenburg .

Nikolaus married on October 26, 1921 in Arolsen Helene (1899-1948), a daughter of Friedrich Fürst zu Waldeck and Pyrmont . After her death in 1948, he married Anne-Marie von Schutzbar called Milchling , divorced Countess Bernstorff (1903–1991) , a second marriage on September 20, 1950 . His first marriage had six sons and three daughters, including the eldest son, Anton Günther (1923–2014), and Eilika Fürstin zu Leiningen (1928–2016) as well as the twin brothers Huno and Johann (* 1940). The second marriage was childless. A granddaughter is the AfD member of the Bundestag Beatrix von Storch .

Nikolaus von Oldenburg was a member of the NSDAP and the SA . As SA-Standartenführer he commanded the SA-Reiterstandarte 14. He was also major of the reserve in the army .

On June 2, 1941, he wrote to Heinrich Himmler in a letter: "I would be very grateful if you would let me know briefly whether I would be able to buy larger goods in the East after the end of the war."

Nikolaus von Oldenburg died on April 3, 1970 in Rastede at the age of 72 and was buried in his family's mausoleum on the Gertrudenfriedhof (Oldenburg) .

literature

  • Nikolaus Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/1970 from May 25, 1970 ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Alexander vom Hofe: Four Princes zu Schaumburg-Lippe and the parallel system of injustice , Vierprinzen SL, Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-609-8523-7 , p. 80 ( PDF )
  • Christian Ludwig von Mecklenburg : Stories from my life. 3. Edition. Stick and stone, Schwerin 1998.
  • Stephan Malinowski : From King to Leader. German nobility and National Socialism . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010, pp. 431, 497.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander vom Hofe: Four princes of Schaumburg-Lippe and the parallel system of injustice , Vierprinzen SL, Madrid 2006, p. 80.
  2. ↑ The House of Oldenburg and the Nazis: A Terribly Brown Family - taz.de
personal data
SURNAME Oldenburg, Nikolaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldenburg, Nikolaus Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Hereditary Grand Duke
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 1970
Place of death Rastede