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Wolrad, Prince Of Schaumburg-Lippe
Ernst Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (19 April 1887 – 15 June 1962) was head of the Princely House of Schaumburg-Lippe. Biography He was born at Stadthagen, the fourth son of Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and his wife, Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864–1918). He succeeded his brother Prince Adolf II as head of the Princely House following his death in a plane crash in Mexico on 26 March 1936. Following his death at Hanover, he was succeeded as head of the Princely House by his second son, Philipp-Ernst. Marriage and children He was married at Simbach am Inn Simbach am Inn (, ) is a town on the River Inn in the Rottal-Inn district of Bavaria, Germany. The Austrian city Braunau am Inn lies on the opposite side of the river from Simbach. History Simbach was one of the first places in which electrici ... in April 1925 to his second cousin, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1903–1983), only daughter of Prince Albert of Schaumburg-Lippe and Duch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadthagen
Stadthagen () is the capital of the district of Landkreis Schaumburg, Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km east of Minden and 40 km west of Hanover. The city consists of the districts Brandenburg, Enzen-Hobbensen, Hörkamp-Langenbruch, Krebshagen, Obernwöhren, Probsthagen, Reinsen and Wendthagen-Ehlen. Earlier, there were also the districts Habichhorst, Bruchhof, Blyinghausen, Enzen and Hobbensen. Stadthagen is located on the German Timber-Frame Road. History Count Adolf III of Holstein, Adolf III of County of Holstein, Holstein created a new settlement at the foot of the Bückeberg around 1224. Its site near the Hellweg route testifies to his strategic and commercial wisdom. After the successful clearances of the Dülwald forest around 1224, a new settlement by the name of ''indago comitis'' (the count's enclosure - the same name as The Hague) was first recorded in 1244 when it was described as a city and fort. In 1287 the town change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Ida Of Waldeck And Pyrmont
Princess ''Ida'' Caroline of Waldeck and Pyrmont (; 26 September 1796 – 12 April 1869) was a member of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Through her marriage to George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ida was also a member of the House of Lippe and Princess consort of Schaumburg-Lippe. Early life Ida was born in Rhoden, Waldeck and Pyrmont and was the second-eldest child and eldest daughter of George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Marriage and issue Ida married George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, son of Philip II Ernest, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe and his second wife Princess Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, on 23 June 1816 in Arolsen, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Ida and George William had nine children: * Adolphus I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1 August 1817 – 8 May 1893) *Princess Mathilde of Schaumburg-Lippe (11 September 1818 – 14 August 1891) married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretenders
Pretenders may refer to: Film * ''Pretenders'' (2018 film), an American drama film * ''The Pretenders'' (1916 film), a lost American silent film * ''The Pretenders'' (1981 film), a Dutch film Literature * ''Cemetery Girl – Book One: The Pretenders'', a 2014 graphic novel by Charlaine Harris and Christopher Golden; the first installment in the ''Cemetery Girl'' series * '' Pretenders'', a 2008 novel by Lynda Williams; the third installment in the Okal Rel Universe series * ''Pretenders'', a 2013 novel by Lisi Harrison; the first installment in the ''Pretenders'' series * ''The Pretenders'' (play) (Norwegian: ''Kongs-Emnerne''), an 1863 play by Henrik Ibsen * ''The Pretenders'', a 1962 novel by Mary Howard * ''The Pretenders'' (novel), a 1962 novel by F. Sionil José * ''The Pretenders'', a 1969 novel by Gwen Davis * ''The Pretenders'', a 1999 novel by Joan Wolf Music * The Pretenders The Pretenders are a British rock band formed in March 1978. The original band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Stadthagen
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Deaths
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Netherlands, Dutch rail disaster. * January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. * January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. * January 13 – People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China. * January 15 ** Portugal abandons the United Nations General Assembly due to the debate over Angola. ** French designer Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Yves Saint Laurent launches Yves Saint Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Births
Events January * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti- rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship '' Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. February * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Lippe
The House of Lippe () is the former reigning house of a number of small Germany, German states, two of which existed until the German Revolution of 1918–19, the Principality of Lippe and the Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, former Queen of the Netherlands (1980–2013), is an Patrilineality, agnatic member of this house. History The House of Lippe descends from Jodocus Herman, Lord of Lippe (died c. 1096), whose descendant Bernard I, Lord of Lippe, Bernhard I was the founder of the state of County of Lippe, Lippe in 1123. Born ca 1090. The family has produced several of the longest-reigning monarchs in Europe, including the longest reigning (for 82 years), Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe (d. 1511). In 1528, Simon V, Count of Lippe, Simon V was elevated to the rank of ruling Count of the Holy Roman Empire and Edler Herr zur Lippe (noble Lord of Lippe). In 1613, the House's territory was split into the counties of Lippe-Detmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Marie Frederica Of Hesse-Kassel
Princess Marie Frederica Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel (6 September 1804 – 1 January 1888) was a Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen by marriage to Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. She was the daughter of William II, Elector of Hesse and Princess Augusta of Prussia. Life Marie Frederica was one of six children born to William II, Elector of Hesse by his first spouse Augusta of Prussia. However, her only sibling to live past the age of five was Frederick William, Elector of Hesse. In addition, she had eight half-siblings by her father's second marriage to Emilie Ortlöpp, Countess of Reichenbach-Lessonitz. Duchess In 1822, Marie, through the suggestion of her mother's friend, the Swedish countess Charlotta Aurora De Geer, was considered a possible bride for Oscar I of Sweden, but the following year, he married Josephine of Leuchtenberg instead. On 23 March 1825, Marie married Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard II, Duke Of Saxe-Meiningen
Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar * Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 1946–1984 * Bernhard, Count of Bylandt (1905–1998), German nobleman, artist, and author * Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911–2004), Prince Consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands * Bernhard, Margrave of Baden (born 1970), German prince * Bernhard Beibl (born 1979), Austrian musician * Bernhard Frank (1913–2011), German SS Commander * Bernhard Garside (born 1962), British diplomat * Bernhard Goetzke (1884–1964), German actor * Bernhard Grill (born 1961), one of the developers of MP3 technology * Bernhard Hantzsch (1875-1911), German ornithologist, Arctic researcher, and writer * Bernhard Heiliger (1915–1995), German sculptor * Bernhard Höfler (born 1986), Austrian politician * Bernhard Langer (born 1957), German golfer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg, Duke Of Saxe-Altenburg
Georg Karl Frederick (24 July 1796 in Hildburghausen – 3 August 1853 in Hummelshain) was Duke of Saxe-Altenburg from 1848 to 1853. Family He was the fourth but second surviving son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826) and Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He fought in the Austrian ranks against Napoleonic France in the 1813–1814 war. Georg succeeded his brother Joseph Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ... as Duke of Saxe-Altenburg when he abdicated, in 1848. Marriage and issue In Ludwigslust on 7 October 1825 Georg married with Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She was a daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Emma Of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (20 May 1802 – 1 August 1858) was a German princess who was the consort of George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Life Emma was one of the four daughters of the prince Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1767–1812) from his marriage to Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776–1841), daughter of Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg. She grew up together with her sisters in Hoym in Anhalt and was carefully educated. Their great-uncle, Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, had waived his right of succession in Schaumburg and the County of Holzappel in 1811 in favour of his great-niece, but in 1828 this decision was overruled. After her husband's death in 1852, she ruled Waldeck and Pyrmont as Regent for her minor son George Victor. Among her first acts was a reform of the Waldeck contingent of the federal army, implemented in 1845 by Prussian officers. The Revolutions of 1848 took p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George II, Prince Of Waldeck And Pyrmont
George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (; 20 September 178915 May 1845) was Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, ruling from 1813 to 1845. Early life and ancestry Born into the main Pyrmont line of an ancient German House of Waldeck, he was the third child and eldest surviving son of George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife, Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. His mother was third child and second daughter of August II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1738-1806) and his wife, Princess Christine of Anhalt-Bernburg. Marriage and children He was married in Schaumburg on 26 June 1823, to his distant cousin, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, member of the House of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, collateral younger branch of the House of Ascania. She was third daughter of Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym and his wife, Princess Amalie of Nassau-Weilburg (1776-1841). They had three sons and two daughters: *Princess Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
