Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg
Woizlawa - Princess Feodora Reuss (b. Woizlawa - Feodora Elise Marie Elisabeth Duchess of Mecklenburg, born December 17, 1918 in Rostock ) is one of the last living members of the House of Mecklenburg -Schwerin
Biography
Woizlawa - Feodora is the only daughter of Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg and his first wife Viktoria Feodora, born Princess Reuss, the eldest daughter of Prince Heinrich XXVII. ( Reuss Younger Line ). Your first name of Woizlawa recalls the ancestor of the House of Mecklenburg, wife of Obotritenfürsten Pribislaw, her second to her mother, who died at birth. She grew especially with her paternal grandmother in Ludwigslust and Cottage Alexandrinen - in Heiligendamm and mother to his grandparents, Prince and Princess Reuss jL, in Gera in Thuringia and Ebersdorf on.
On September 15, 1939, she married her distant relatives in Bad Doberan Henry I ( Harry) Prince Reuss (* October 8, 1910; † 10 March 1982), the 1935 by childless Heinrich XLV. ( Reuss Younger Line ) had been adopted. Woizlawa - Feodora and Henry I. Prince Reuss have a daughter and five sons:
- Princess Feodora Reuss ( born February 5, 1942)
- Henry VIII Prince Reuss ( born August 30, 1944)
- Henry IX. Prince Reuss (* June 30, 1947 )
- Henry X. Prince Reuss ( born July 28, 1948)
- Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuss (*. December 4, 1951 )
- Heinrich XV. Prince Reuss ( born October 9, 1956)
In 1945, she fled to the West, to Schloss Büdingen. Until 1991, she lived in Büdingen. After reunification, she moved back to Gera. She now lives in Büdingen in the home of her daughter.
Processes for the recovery of expropriated goods
She was known primarily for the over 20 years protracted trial, which took place after 1945 expropriation of property by Heinrich XLV. ( Reuss Younger Line ) to challenge. As a widow, his adopted son and at the same time as the granddaughter of Prince Heinrich XXVII. she represented the claims of the heirs Reußschen. With the city of Gera, came on 21 October 1997 to an amicable agreement on the whereabouts of the most moving art goods in the City Museum Gera. By decision of 16 January 1998, the Thuringian State Office confirmed the Settlement of Open Property Issues such amicable settlement. As a result, approximately 700 works of art were transferred back to the family and 1998 auctioned. The registration of the " Gera silver furniture " in the directory nationally valuable cultural property has been challenged unsuccessfully by the family.
Meanwhile, the dispute was over the property on. The main argument of Woizlawa - Feodora and their lawyers, Heinrich XLV. also have British citizenship possessed and his expropriation was not therefore lawfully, was rejected in the dispute over Osterstein Castle by the Administrative Court of Gera 2005. An appeal against the judgment was dismissed by the Federal Administrative Court as unfounded. Success was Woizlawa - Princess Feodora Reuss contrast with their Rückübertragunsantrag Castle Thallwitz, the family was awarded in a settlement in 2008. After the city of Gera et al the City Museum was completely rebuilt, the contractually agreed Reuß'schen presentation of art treasures in the city museum could no longer be realized, so that an adaptation of the amicable settlement was required. Against the decision of 26 September 1996, had with the State Office for the Settlement of Open Property Issues ( LARoV ) Gera rejected the application for restitution, Princess Reuss brought an action before the Administrative Court of Gera. By the year 2010, the second chamber of the VG Gera has separated the action in a total of 180 procedures and each provided with its own reference number on undisputed decisions (§ § 4.5 Property Act ).
For procedural efficiency grounds, Princess Reuss in some processes, the complaint withdrawn ( eg if a restitution in kind was on the merits excluded 4.5 Property Act even when determining eligibility for § § ), without withdrawing them all return claims. About the return requirement is not yet decided.