Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe ( born February 23, 1883 in Hagen, † March 26, 1936 in Mexico) was from 1911 to 1918 last ruling Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe. In the few years of his reign he coined as the owner of the cityscape of Bad Eilsen. He abdicated on 15 November 1918.

Life

His parents were Prince Georg of Schaumburg -Lippe (1846-1911) and Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864-1918), daughter of Prince Moritz of Saxe- Altenburg.

The construction of the massive mausoleum Biickeburg was the beginning of the construction of a large museum and art site in Biickeburg and Bad Eilsen. We exported the Princely Art Crafts School, later emerged that Prince Adolf Workshop for Art Pottery from, and the Prince's School of Music in Biickeburg, later Army music school. Her most famous pupil was James Last. Further plans thwarted by the First World War. The spa town of Bad Eilsen near Biickeburg benefited to date from the construction program, which began in the First World War. All great still existing and occupied buildings were completed by the early 1920s and established a reputation as Bad Bad Eilsens of princes and kings in the famous Golden Twenties.

On January 10, 1920 he married the actress Elisabeth Franziska in Berlin (Ellen ) Bischoff - Korthaus ( 1894-1936 ). Best man was the Herald and genealogist Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz. The marriage remained childless.

Adolf and his wife arrived on March 26, 1936 in a plane crash in Mexico near the Popocatépetl volcano, a village Zompango ( Amecameca ) died. He was succeeded by his siblings. His youngest brother Friedrich Christian, Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe, adjutant of Joseph Goebbels, spoke out against letting the wife be buried in Bückeburger mausoleum next to her husband, because she was not " Aryan origin ".

At that time her home was on Brioni (then Italy, now Croatia). In Germany, her home was in the villa in Schaumburg Höllriegelskreuth ( Pullach ).

The Secret State Police Office ( Gestapo, address SW11 Berlin, Prinz- Albrecht-Strasse 8 ) had demonstrated determined against them since June 11, 1934 ( file number Tgb. No. III 3 1424/34 ). They were denounced by Kurt von Behr, at that time Gestapo agent in Spain and Italy. From 1932 to 1934 he headed the Nazi party organizational structure in Italy.

Adolf was a member of Corps Borussia Bonn since 1904.