Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz

Heinrich XXXIII. Prince Reuss to Koestritz ( born July 26, 1879 in Wall at Vienna, † November 15, 1942 in Stonsdorf ) was an Imperial German Embassy Secretary, Captain à la suite of the Prussian army and a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Guards Regiment " Empress Alexandra of Russia. "

Life

He was the son of Prince Heinrich VII Reuss- Koestritz and Princess Marie of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach, daughter of Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach and Princess Sophie of Orange- Nassau, Princess of the Netherlands.

Political Desk

Be assessed as problematic is his relationship to National Socialism - Heinrich XXXIII. Reuss wrote: Germany had been " on the edge of the worst Bolshevism." " Since God gave us the German leader Adolf Hitler ", which is building a " strong will [ ... ] against this devastating flood," and I have not only Germany but all of Europe saved. One could the " Bolsheviks and this whole pack [ ... ] do not treat them with kid gloves. " Handling of the " Jewish question " do not understand the foreign, as it is " not in the state of Judaization " located.

When Prince Reuss, the NSDAP had to leave because he had been up to in the years 1931/32 Member of the Grand National of Freemasons of Germany, his anti-Semitism emerged clearly. This order, the Chapter Master Friedrich Leopold of Prussia had been, had " probably the only civil institution," a " sharp struggle " against the out "creeping spread of Judaism in Germany ".

Marriage and issue

Heinrich XXXIII. Prince Reuss - Koestritz married on 17 May 1913 at the New Palace in Potsdam Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia ( born April 17, 1890 in Potsdam, † September 9, 1923 at his hunting lodge Kleinglienicke ), daughter of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia and Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Augustenburg. From the marriage of Henry with Viktoria Margarete had two children:

• Princess Marie Luise Reuss- Koestritz (* January 9, 1915, † 17 June 1985 )
• Prince Henry II of Reuss - Koestritz (* November 24, 1916; † 24 December 1993)

Prince Heinrich XXXIII. married his second wife on April 10, 1929 in Paris, who was born in the U.S. Allene Tew (* July 7, 1876 in Janesville (Wisconsin ); † May 1, 1955 in Cap d'Ail ).