Ernst Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (19 April 1887 – 15 June 1962) was head of the Princely House of

Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also called Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807 and a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present-day state of Lower Saxony, with its capi ...

Biography

He was born at

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 ...

, 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

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on 26 March 1936. Following his death at

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, 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 Duchess Elsa of Württemberg. They had four children: *Adolf Friedrich ''Georg-Wilhelm'' Wolrad Hans-Werner, Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1926–1945) * Friedrich August ''Philipp-Ernst'' Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1928–2003) *Prince ''Konstantin'' Karl-Eduard Ernst-August Stephan Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe (1930-2008) *Princess Elsa ''Viktoria Luise'' Marie Barbara Elisabeth Bathildis Wera of Schaumburg-Lippe (1940)

Ancestry

References

1887 births 1962 deaths People from Stadthagen House of Lippe Pretenders Sons of princes regnant Heirs presumptive {{Germany-royal-stub