Leopold III, Prince of Lippe

Emil Friedrich Leopold III. ( Born September 1, 1821 in Detmold, † December 8, 1875 ibid ) was Prince of Lippe.

Life

Leopold, the eldest son of Leopold II was when he took office almost 30 years old. He had studied at the University of Bonn, where the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt welcomed the tall, blond, blue-eyed young man as old Cheruscan. Until his accession to the throne he was an officer in the Prussian Gardes du Corps. Since September 2, 1873 was Leopold Lieutenant-General of cavalry, and from August 16, 1875 Chief of Infantry Regiment "Graf Bülow of Dennewitz " ( 6 Westphalian ) No 55 In addition, Leopold was 1867 Knight of the Black Eagle since January 17.

As a strictly conservative, he was an opponent of the March Revolution. He therefore dissolved the parliament soon and lifted by decree of 15 March 1853, the Constitution of 1849 and imposed the Constitution of 1836 again, though they dissuaded him from it. The Liberal Party boiled over this coup, while the prince took the view that he had neither caused nor approved, let alone summon the forced by the Revolution Constitution. His Cabinet councils he replaced it by the ingloriously known Dr. Hannibal Fischer, the highly conservative " fleets fishing ", and the government continued to make himself extremely unpopular. His successor, the Conservative Minister Alexander von Oheimb, nevertheless achieved a great success in the negotiation with the estates, by carrying out the separation of state and Domanialhaushalt within the meaning of the prince and the recognition of objects obtained that the Domanium as private property of the royal Family was recognized. In general, however, took on the constitutional dispute, and the liberal opposition excited about Oheimbs of success even more, the prince made ​​life miserable and embittered him, while the rift between conservatives and liberals, between town and country deepened. This hurt the prince well, because he was considered affable and friendly. At his weekly audiences had anyone access.

His marriage with the Princess Elisabeth of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt ( born October 1, 1833 married on 17 April 1852 † November 27, 1896 ) had no children. Nevertheless, he was very fond of children and gave each Christmas a large group of children in the castle.

Shortly before his death he experienced in 1875 nor the inauguration of the Hermann monument by Kaiser Wilhelm I. Shortly thereafter, he was seized with a violent biliary and liver disease. He died after a stroke on December 8, 1875.