Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Ernst Kasimir Friedrich Karl Eberhard, Count of Lippe - Biesterfeld. ( Born June 9, 1842 in Upper Kassel in Bonn, † September 26, 1904 in Castle Lopshorn ) was Regent of Lippe 1897-1904 Ernst is the son of Julius of Lippe - Biesterfeld Clotilda and Adelheid of Castell -Castell. He gained notoriety primarily through the so-called Lippe succession dispute.

Lippe succession dispute

When in 1895 Prince Woldemar died childless, the old Prince of Lippe house was almost extinct. While it was still alive, a son of Prince Leopold II, Alexander, but was incapacitated and incapable of governing since 1871.

To succeed quarreled three related families: the princely line of Schaumburg-Lippe and the two lines Count Lippe- Biesterfeld and Lippe- white box. After the House bill was Count Ernst of Lippe - Biesterfeld as heir. Due to personal dislike and animated by the desire to his country to inherit a member of a reigning royal house, castle Prince Woldemar with the branch line of Schaumburg -Lippe 1890 a secret agreement under which Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe, the brother of Emperor Wilhelm II, his successor should be. Prince Woldemar came a provision of this Constitution to help, namely the Ebenbürtigkeitsklausel, after which members of non- evenly matched marriages were excluded from the succession in his intention.

Now was the grandfather of the Count Regent, Wilhelm Ernst (1777-1840), a simple nobleman, Modeste von Unruh (1781-1854), the prince Woldemar denied the equality married. Since Woldemar could not enforce a corresponding regency law the lippish parliament, also had no power for sole control of the regency and succession, he tried by a Testament available to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe to procure the succession. Through the intervention of the German Emperor period, the resulting Lippe succession dispute aroused the interest in the world.

It was then in 1895 an agreement between Parliament and the Regent Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe, according to which they wanted to submit to arbitral decision, to what Adolf should lead the regency. Chaired by King Albert of Saxony arbitration met on June 22, 1897 decision; by the law of succession of Count Ernst of Lippe - Biesterfeld was recognized.

The Lippe succession dispute also caused a temporary detuning between Wilhelm II and his then Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe. Not only namely it turned out this legal considerations on the side of Count Ernst; Moreover, he was also related to this, namely - by his cousin Amalie zu Castell -Castell, the mother Ernest - his uncle 2nd degree.

Progeny

Ernst zur Lippe - Biesterfeld was married to Caroline Countess of Wartensleben ( 1844-1905 ). They had six children:

  • Adelheid Caroline Mathilde Emilie Agnes Ida Sophie ( born June 22, 1870 in Upper Kassel, † September 3, 1948 in Detmold )
  • Leopold IV Julius Bernhard Adalbert Otto Karl Gustav (* May 30, 1871 in Upper Kassel, † December 30, 1949 in Detmold )
  • Bernhard Kasimir Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Wilhelm Eduard ( born August 26, 1872 in Upper Kassel, † June 19, 1934 in Munich), by his son, the Dutch Prince Consort Bernhard, grandfather of the Dutch Queen Beatrix
  • Julius Ernst Rudolf Friedrich Franz Victor ( born September 2, 1873 in Upper Kassel, † September 15, 1952 ibid ), married to Victoria Marie of Mecklenburg -Strelitz
  • Caroline Elizabeth Alwine Auguste kyda Leonore Anna ( born September 2, 1873 in Upper Kassel, † April 23, 1958 in Lemgo )
  • Mathilde Emma Hermine Anna Minna Johanna ( born March 27, 1875 in Upper Kassel, † February 12, 1907 in Halberstadt )
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