Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe, full name Adolf Wilhelm Viktor of Schaumburg -Lippe ( born July 20, 1859 in Bückeburg † July 9, 1916 in Bonn ) was a German prince of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe and Prussian officer, most recently the General cavalry. In the years 1895-1897 he led for Prince Alexander of Lippe -Detmold the regency of the principality of Lippe- Detmold.
Life
Adolf was the fourth son of Prince Adolf I Georg of Schaumburg-Lippe (1817-1893) and his wife Hermine (1827-1910), youngest daughter of the Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont George II and Princess Emma of Anhalt- Bernburg - Schaumburg- Hoym.
In 1890, Prince Adolf and Princess Viktoria Friederike Amalie of Prussia learned during a visit of Princess Marie zu Wied - Neuwied, know Mother of Queen Elizabeth of Romania. On November 19, 1890 he married in Berlin Princess Victoria of Prussia ( 1866-1929 ), second daughter of the German Emperor Friedrich III. and his wife, the Princess Royal Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland. After an extended honeymoon in different countries, the couple took residence in the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn. After a miscarriage the marriage remained childless.
Given the childlessness of Prince Woldemar to Lippe-Detmold (1824-1895) and his incapacitated brother Alexander of Lippe -Detmold (1831-1905), and the consequent difficulties for the succession, Woldemar tried to preempt the events. Due to personal dislike and animated by the desire to bequeath his country a member of a reigning royal house, he determined in his will the Prince Adolphus, the brother of Emperor Wilhelm II, his successor and thus sparked the struggle for the throne of Lippe. To succeed quarreled three related families: the princely line of Schaumburg-Lippe and the two lines Count Lippe- Biesterfeld and Lippe- white box.
Through the intervention of the German Emperor period, the resulting Lippe succession dispute has attracted the world's interest. 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 which the latter should result in the regency. This decision was taken on 22 June 1897 by an arbitral tribunal under the chairmanship of King Albert I of Saxony, whereby the right of succession of Count Ernst of Lippe - Biesterfeld ( 1842-1904 ) was recognized.
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe served in since 1852 stationed in Bonn Hussar Regiment " King William I " (1 Rhenish ) No 7 He was also a Major General à la suite of Westphalia Rifle Battalion # 7 in Biickeburg.
He was a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn (1882 ) and the Corps Saxonia Göttingen ( 1890).