Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Wolrad ( born 19 April 1887 in Hagen, † 15 June 1962 Hannover) of Schaumburg -Lippe was a German entrepreneur.
Ernst Wolrad Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe (full baptismal name ) followed his brother Adolf II of Schaumburg -Lippe in 1936 according to traditional guidelines of the German nobility Legal Committee as a "boss" of the house of Schaumburg -Lippe after, making him the winner of the traditional title of " Prince " made. He has since been generally known under the name Wolrad Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe, although since the abolition of the privileges of the aristocracy in 1919, only the title " Prince" ( / "Princess " ), but not the Erstgeburtstitel " Prince " heretofore granted in primogeniture, part of the civil name is.
Life
He was the son of Prince Georg of Schaumburg -Lippe and Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg. After his brother Adolf II, the last reigning Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe, came on March 26, 1936 in a plane crash in Mexico killed Wolrad was head of the House of Schaumburg -Lippe.
On May 7, 1936, he wrote to the then Prussian Minister President Hermann Göring and asked that - contrary to the provisions of the Weimar Constitution to abolish the privileges of the nobility (Article 109, paragraph 2) - to be able to call Prince. Goering referred him to the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick. On September 1, 1936, he presented a backdating request for inclusion in the Nazi Party, which was endorsed on 7 December 1936 by Rudolf Hess: The Entry into the NSDAP was backdated to 1928.
1937 held Wolrad of Schaumburg-Lippe the post of leader of the SA storm ( Reiterstandarte the SA 65 -Detmold ). From 1940, he secured the General in Krakow and Lviv with the Division supply officer 365 On 14 April 1942 he became commander of the supply rod zbV ( special use ) 365 This replenishment staff remained the senior field commander ( OFK ) 365 regulated. On 1 August 1941, the OFK 365 was moved from Krakow to Lviv. It acted there in an area that was not operational area of the Army.
In the denazification process he was represented by Bruno Pfennig, General Counsel, founded by Hermann Goering Main Trusteeship Office East ( HTO). An alternative location of HTO was transferred in early 1945 to Bückeburg. The object of the HTO was to seize particular Jewish and Polish land in the General Government. Wolrad zu Schaumburg -Lippe is classified in Category IV in 1949. Tenor: He has supported Nazism.
The second son he inhabited castle Hagen Castle, the summer residence of the family at Steinhude. He's never really moved to Biickeburg, but used only when it was necessary, the official residence on the so-called princely apartment in the right wing of the castle Bückeburger. Among his major source of income was before the Second World War in his possession slightly radioactive sulfur and mud Eilsen at Biickeburg where especially gout, rheumatism and metabolic sick found healing. It was attended mainly by the German aristocracy. His descendants always claim that the bathroom had been confiscated in 1941 by the German Luftwaffe, but really is rather that Wolrad of Schaumburg -Lippe rented it out to the company Flugzeugwerke Focke -Wulf in Bremen. 1945, it was seized as a German headquarters of the Royal Air Force. From the British it was vacated in 1955, Eilsen subsequently fell back into his possession. In 1957 he sold the bathroom with all bathing facilities, the large hotels in the resort area and the spa at the regional insurance agencies Berlin and Hanover.
He died at the age of 75 years on the effects of a stroke.
Family
On April 15, 1925 he married his cousin in Simbach Bathildis Princess of Schaumburg -Lippe ( 1903-1983 ), daughter of Prince Albrecht zu Schaumburg -Lippe and Duchess Elsa of Württemberg. From the union four children were born:
- Albrecht Georg Wilhelm ( * January 26, 1926, † April 29, 1945 liked )
- Philipp Ernst ( * July 26, 1928; † 28 August 2003)
- Constantine ( born December 22, 1930; † 16 April 2008)
- Viktoria Luise ( born July 31, 1940)
Honors
He was an honorary citizen of Hagen castle. In Wölpinghausen according to him the " prince - Wolrad Street " named.