Princess Pauline Olga Helene Emma of Württemberg (19 December 18777 May 1965) was the only child of

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and

Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont Princess Georgine Henriette Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (23 May 1857 – 30 April 1882) was the third daughter of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife, Princess Helena of Nassau, younger half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Du ...

to reach adulthood. Pauline was the wife of

William Frederick, Prince of Wied , house = Wied-Neuwied , father = William, Prince of Wied , mother = Princess Marie of the Netherlands , birth_date = , birth_place =Neuwied, Kingdom of Prussia , death_date = , death_place =Neuwied, Allied-occupied Germany ...

, and worked for many years as the regional director of the

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in western Germany.

Early life

Pauline was born at Stuttgart in the

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg (german: Königreich Württemberg ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existe ...

, the elder daughter of

(1848–1921) by his first wife

(1857–1882). Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (editor). Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, Burke's Peerage, London, 1973, pp. 210-212, 215-216, 258, 302. She became their only surviving child after the deaths of her brother Prince Ulrich and unnamed stillborn sister.

World War II

She was indicted for concealing, since October 1945, a pair of important Nazis by a military court of the United States. She confessed to knowingly sheltering ''Frau''

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, ''née'' Treusch, later known as Maria Stuckebrock (9 February 1902 – 24 March 1999), was a Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Women's League (''NS-Frauenschaft'') in Nazi Germany. Nazi activities ...

and her spouse, former SS Maj. General August Heissmayer.Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
Fashioning a Nation
retrieved 12 December 2018.

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. 3 March 1948. Princess indicted for helping the Nazis. The Princess was aware that ''Frau'' Scholtz-Klink was the head of the Nazi women's organizations, but she denied that she had been aware of Heissmayer's SS position. Princess Pauline was bailed out of custody but scheduled for trial in March 1948. She stated that she came to know ''Frau'' Scholtz-Klink during the years when both women headed significant institutions under the Nazis, the Princess asserting that she had then been the director of the

for

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, Nassau, the

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and

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. ''Herr'' and ''Frau'' Scholtz-Klink informed the French that they asked for Princess Pauline's aid in 1945, Princess Pauline arranged for them to stay inconspicuously in Bebenhausen, where they were arrested by Allied authorities.

Marriage and family

Princess Pauline married on 29 October 1898 in Stuttgart to

(1872–1945), son of William, Prince of Wied and the spectacularly wealthy

Princess Marie of the Netherlands , house = Orange-Nassau , father =Prince Frederick of the Netherlands , mother =Princess Louise of Prussia , birth_date = , birth_place =Wassenaar, Netherlands , death_date = , death_place =Neuwied, Kingdom of Prussia Pr ...

.C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes (London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 1, page 226. Hereinafter cited as The Book of Kings Her husband's elder brother was

William, Prince of Albania Prince Wilhelm of Wied ( German: ''Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Prinz zu Wied'', 26 March 1876 – 18 April 1945), reigned briefly as sovereign of the Principality of Albania as Vilhelm I from 7 March to 3 September 1914, when he left for exile. ...

, and she was a first cousin of the Dutch queen,

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands Wilhelmina (; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World Wa ...

. They had 2 children: *Prince Hermann of Wied (18 August 1899 – 5 November 1941), married Countess Marie Antonia von Stolberg-Wernigerode, and had issue, including Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Wied, who married Princess Guda, daughter of

Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (german: Josias Georg Wilhelm Adolf Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont) (13 May 1896 – 30 November 1967) was the heir apparent to the throne of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a genera ...

. *Prince Dietrich of Wied (30 October 1901 – 8 June 1976), married Countess Antoinette Julia von Grote, and had issue. The Countess was a niece of Countess Thyra von Grote, who married German diplomat Martin Rücker von Jenisch, in 1905, She was also a niece of American expatriate Harry Van Bergen and a granddaughter of businessman Anthony T. Van Bergen.

Descendants

Through Prince Dietrich, she was a grandmother of Otto Hermann Maximilien, Prince of Wied (1929–2008), Ulrich, Prince of Wied (1931–2010), and Thierry Louis-Eugène, Prince of Wied (1938–2001). Her grandson Ulrich married Ilke Fischer in 1968 and was the mother of Ulrich, Prince of Wied (b. 1970), who married Clarissa Elizabeth Makepeace-Massingham (b. 1971) in 2000; and Marie, Princess of Wied (b. 1973), who married Duke Friedrich of Württemberg (1961–2018), eldest son of

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and heir to the

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, in 1993. Duke Friedrich died in a car accident in 2018 and his funeral was attended by King Philippe and

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, and Bernhard, Hereditary Prince of Baden.

Ancestry

References

External links

*The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C., Reference: 218 *L'Allemagne dynastique, Huberty, Giraud, Magdelaine, Reference: II 547 ; III 74 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pauline Of Wurttemberg 1877 births 1965 deaths Nobility from Stuttgart House of Wied-Neuwied Princesses of Württemberg Daughters of kings