Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe

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Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe (born April 19, 1887 in Stadthagen , † June 15, 1962 in Hanover ) was a German entrepreneur .

Ernst Wolrad Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe (full baptismal name) succeeded his brother Adolf II zu Schaumburg-Lippe in 1936 according to the traditional guidelines of the German Nobility Law Committee as "boss" of the Schaumburg-Lippe house , which made him the holder of the traditional title of " Prince " made. Since then he has been generally known under the name Wolrad Fürst zu Schaumburg-Lippe , although since the abolition of the privileges of the nobility in 1919 only the title “Prince” (/ “Princess”), but not the first-born title “Prince”, which was previously granted in Primogenitur , is a component of the real name is.

Life

He was the son of Prince Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Marie Anna of Saxony-Altenburg . After his brother Adolf II , the last reigning prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, died in an airplane accident in Mexico on March 26, 1936 , Wolrad became head of the Schaumburg-Lippe family.

On May 7, 1936, he wrote to the then Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring and asked to be allowed to call himself Prince - contrary to the provisions of the Weimar Constitution on the abolition of the privileges of the nobility (Article 109, Paragraph 2). Goering referred him to the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick . On September 1, 1936, he submitted a backdating application for admission to the NSDAP , which Rudolf Hess advocated on December 7, 1936 : Entry into the NSDAP was backdated to 1928.

In 1937 Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe held the office of storm leader of the SA ( equestrian standard of SA 65-Detmold). From 1940 he secured the general government in Cracow and Lemberg with the division supply leader 365. On April 14, 1942 he was commander of the supply staff z. b. V. (for special use) 365. This supply staff remained subordinate to the Oberfeldkommandantur (OFK) 365. On August 1, 1941, OFK 365 was relocated from Krakow to Lviv. It operated there in an area that was not the Army’s operational area.

In the denazification process , he was represented by Bruno Pfennig , General Counsel of the Main Trust Office East (HTO) founded by Hermann Göring . An alternative point of the HTO had been moved to Bückeburg at the beginning of 1945 . The task of the HTO was to confiscate, in particular, Jewish and Polish property in the Generalgouvernement. Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe was classified in category IV in 1949. Tenor: He supported National Socialism.

As the second son, he lived in Hagenburg Castle , the family's summer residence on the Steinhuder Meer . He never really moved to Bückeburg, but only used the official apartment above the so-called princely apartment in the right wing of the Bückeburg Palace when necessary . Even before the Second World War he owned the slightly radioactive sulfur and mud bath Eilsen near Bückeburg, where mainly gout, rheumatoid and metabolic patients were cured. It was mostly attended by the German aristocracy. His descendants keep claiming that the bath was confiscated by the German Air Force in 1941, but what is more correct is that Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe leased it to the Flugzeugwerke Focke-Wulf company from Bremen. In 1945 it was confiscated as the German headquarters of the Royal Air Force . It was evacuated by the British in 1955, after which Eilsen fell back into his possession. In 1957 he sold the bath with all bathing facilities, the large hotels in the spa district and the spa park to the state insurance companies in Berlin and Hanover.

He died of a stroke at the age of 75.

family

On April 15, 1925, he married his cousin Bathildis Princess zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1903-1983), daughter of Prince Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe and Duchess Elsa von Württemberg in Simbach am Inn . Four children emerged from the connection:

  • Albrecht Georg Wilhelm (born January 26, 1926 - died April 29, 1945)
  • Philipp Ernst (1928-2003)
  • Constantine (December 22, 1930 - April 16, 2008)
  • Viktoria Luise (born July 31, 1940)

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)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wolrad zu 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)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Honors

He was an honorary citizen of Hagenburg . In Wölpinghausen the "Fürst-Wolrad-Straße" is named after him.

literature

  • Alexander vom Hofe: Four Princes zu Schaumburg-Lippe and the parallel system of injustice , Vierprinzen SL, Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-609-8523-7 ( online edition )
  • Alexander vom Hofe: Four Princes zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Kammler and von Behr , Vierprinzen SL, Madrid, 2013, ISBN 978-84-615-5450-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. Vom Hofe: Vier Prinzen zu Schaumburg-Lippe , p. 51 f.
  2. Bad Eilsen at http://www.bad-eilsen.info/ , accessed on October 24, 2011
predecessor Office successor
Adolf II Head of the Schaumburg-Lippe house from
1936–1962
Philipp Ernst