Carl Baily Norris von Schirach (10 November 1873 in

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– 11 July 1948) was a German-American theatre director. He was head of the Weimar Court Theatre from 1909 to 1918. He was also a

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at the grand ducal court in the

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, and was a retired captain of the cavalry (''

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''). Carl von Schirach was born an American citizen and was the son of Karl Friedrich von Schirach, a former major in the US Army who fought in the

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on the Union side and who was an honour guard at President

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's funeral in 1865. His mother was Elisabeth Baily Norris, a member of a prominent

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family. Carl von Schirach married the American Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou (1872–1944), who also belonged to a prominent Philadelphia family and who was descended from two signatories of the

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. They were the parents of the opera singer

Rosalind von Schirach Rosalind von Schirach (21 April 1898 in Berlin – 1981 in Munich) was a German opera singer, mainly known as a lyric soprano. From 1920 to 1925 she performed under the pseudonym Rosa Lind at the Leipzig Opera. From 1925 to 1928 she performed as ...

and of the Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach.''

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'', Adelige Häuser B, Vol. XIV, pp. 460f., Vol 78 (Gesamtreihe), C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981, ISSN 0435-2408.

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