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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14437, Tag von Potsdam, Adolf Hitler, Kronprinz Wilhelm.jpg|280px|thumb|right|[[Wilhelm, German Crown Prince]] and son of [[Wilhelm II]], with [[Adolf Hitler]] in March 1933]]
Beginning in 1925, some members of higher levels of the [[German nobility]] joined the [[Nazi Party]], registered by their title, date of birth, NSDAP Party registration number, and date of joining the Nazi Party, from the registration of their first prince (Ernst) into NSDAP in 1928, until the end of [[World War II]] in 1945.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|pp=5–6}}
Following [[Abdication of Wilhelm II|Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication]] and the [[German Revolution of 1918–19|German Revolution]], all [[German nobility]] as a legally defined class was abolished. On [[promulgation]] of the [[Weimar Constitution]] on 11 September 1919, all such Germans were declared equal before the law.<ref name="Art. 109 WC">Article 109 of the Weimar Constitution constitutes: ''Adelsbezeichnungen gelten nur als Teil des Namens und dürfen nicht mehr verliehen werden'' ("Noble names are only recognised as part of the surname and may no longer be granted").</ref> There were 22 heads of these former federal states, titled as the 4 Kings of Germany; [[Prussia]], [[Bavaria]], [[Saxony]], and [[Württemberg]], there were also 6 [[Grand Duke]]s, 5 [[Duke]]s, and 7 [[Prince]]s, who along with all of their heirs, successors and families, lost their titles and domains. In appeasement of such losses, [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Hermann Goering]], [[Heinrich Himmler]], and other Nazi leaders, frequently appealed to these (former) princes, and especially to [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II]] and his families from the former Prussian kingdom, by expressing sympathy for a restoration of their [[List of German monarchs in 1918|abolished monarchies]], and such lost inheritances.
From 1925, the newly formed [[Nazi Party]] began accepting these princes by their (abolished) former titles, and by their (abolished) princedoms, and registering these dukes, princes, and princesses as such, in the Nazi Party. There are two known Nazi Party lists of such princes and princedoms. Of the first list Historian Malinowski notes: "of 312 families of the old aristocracy 3,592 princes joined the Nazis (26.9%) before Hitler came to power in 1933." The second Berlin Federal archives list depicts 270 princely members of the Nazi Party (1928–1942), of which almost half joined the Nazis pre-Hitler. The Berlin list named 90 direct senior heirs, to their 22 abolished princedoms,{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=380}} and also included claimants to the (former) Imperial Crown of Wilhelm II. After the proposed ''Prussian – "fourth Kaiser"'' died in the ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' in 1940, Hitler issued the ''[[Prinzenerlass]]'', prohibiting German princes from the ''Wehrmacht'', but not from the Nazi Party, ''SA'' or ''[[SS]]''. Some German states provided a proportionally higher number of ''SS'' officers, including [[Hesse-Nassau]] and [[Lippe]]. Such German princes included ''SS–[[Obergruppenführer]]'' and [[Higher SS and Police Leader]] [[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]].
==German Empire and Kingdom of Prussia==
(Abolished 9 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Königreich Preussen (Grosses).png|Kingdom of Prussia|left|100px]]
[[File:Wilhelm II with his Sons.jpg|thumb|260px|Ex-Kaiser [[Wilhelm II]] with his five sons]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14221, Paul von Hindenburg und Wilhelm von Preußen.jpg|thumb| left|260px|[[Wilhelm, German Crown Prince|Crown Prince William]], Reich President [[Paul von Hindenburg|von Hindenburg]], and [[August von Mackensen|von Mackensen]], 19 January 1933. Field Marshal von Mackensen, a monarchist,<ref>Showalter, D. E., ''Tannenberg: Clash of Empires''. Hamden: Archon, 1991. p. 177</ref> was a military tutor to [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]], and his son. His high-profile black Life Hussars uniform was adopted by the ''[[SS]]''. Von Mackensen was made a Prussian state councillor by [[Göring]] in 1933. ]]
{{main|List of German monarchs in 1918}}
{{main|Abdication of Wilhelm II}}
'''[[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]]''' issued his statement of abdication on 28 November 1918, from both the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], and imperial thrones, thus formally ending the [[House of Hohenzollern]]'s 400-year rule over Prussia. He also gave up his, and ''future succession rights to the throne of Prussia and to the German Imperial throne connected therewith.''<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jzM9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA153|year=1919|page=153 | last1=Hart | first1=Albert Bushnell }}</ref>
'''[[William, German Crown Prince]]''' was first son and heir of Prussia and [[List of German monarchs in 1918|the collective Kaiserreich]] of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Crown Prince is known to have abdicated around the same time as his father in 1918. Prince William was a military commander, as second in command to his Commander in Chief father, with [[Generalfeldmarschall]] [[Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria|Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria]] and [[Generalfeldmarschall]] [[Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg]], at German military headquarters throughout WWI, until the allied armistice of 11 November 1918. As such, Wilhelm II and Crown Prince William directly commanded their [[Chief of the General Staff (Germany)|Chief of General Staff]], General [[Paul von Hindenburg]] throughout WWI. In 1933, von Hindenburg appointed (''Nazi Party Leader'') Hitler as the new [[Chancellor of Germany]]. On Hindenburg's death, Hitler officially became [[Führer]] and Chancellor of the Realm/Reich. Previously in Germany (1871–1918), the Chancellor was only responsible to the Prussian Kaiser (''as Leader of the reich''). In 1933, the Nazi regime abolished the flag of the [[Weimar Republic]], and officially restored the Imperial Prussian flag, alongside the [[Swastika]].
An earlier meeting with a (''later'') senior Nazi figure occurred in 1916, when Crown Prince William invested [[Hermann Göring|Hermann Wilhelm Göring]] with his [[Iron Cross]], first class, after Göring flew reconnaissance and bombing missions in a ''[[Feldflieger Abteilung]]'' 25 (FFA 25)&nbsp;– in Crown Prince William's Fifth Army.{{sfn|Manvell|2011|pp=28–29}} Like many veterans, Göring believed the [[Stab-in-the-back legend]], that the WWI German Army had not really lost the war, but was betrayed by Marxists, Jews, and especially [[Weimar Republic|Republicans]], who had overthrown the German monarchy.{{sfn|Manvell|2011|p=39}} In 1933, with Hitler and the Nazi Party in power, Göring was appointed as Minister of the Interior for [[Prussia]],{{sfn|Manvell|2011|p=92}} for which he established a Prussian police force called the ''Geheime Staatspolizei'', or [[Gestapo]].{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=54}} The headquarters of [[Reich Security Main Office]], ''[[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]]'', [[Gestapo]] and ''[[SS]]'' in [[Nazi Germany]] (1933–1945), was ''symbolically'' housed at Prinz Albrecht-Strasse, off Wilhelmstraße, in [[Berlin]].
[[File:Berlin, Sportpalast, August Wilhelm v. Preußen.jpg|right|140px|thumb|[[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia|Prince August William]] in 1932]]
In the early 1930s, Wilhelm II apparently hoped the successes of the German Nazi Party would stimulate interest in a restoration of the monarchy, with Crown Prince William's son as the fourth Kaiser.<ref>{{cite news
|author=Baron Clemens von Radowitz-Nei
|title=Monarchy Will Return, But Not I, Says Ex-Kaiser; Ebert Capable, but Republic Is Only a Temporary Affair, Former Ruler Holds. Sees Nation Again a Power. Hopes for an Economic Union in Central Europe, but Disapproves Austrian Alliance. Assails the Soviet Treaty. Talks on Many Current Issues With Baron Clemens von Radowitz-Nei, One of a Group Of Callers at Doorn.
|date=3 July 1922
|work=The New York Times
|page=1
|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05EEDB1039E133A25750C0A9619C946395D6CF
|access-date=2008-08-10
}}</ref> After [[Wilhelm, German Crown Prince|Crown Prince Wilhelm]] joined the ''[[Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten|Stahlhelm]]'' which merged in 1931 into the [[Harzburg Front]], Adolf Hitler visited the former Crown Prince at [[Cecilienhof]] three times, in 1926, in 1933 (on the "[[Day of Potsdam]]") and in 1935.<ref name="Broschure">{{cite book|last1=Müller|first1=Heike|last2=Berndt|first2=Harald|title=Schloss Cecilienhof und die Konferenz von Potsdam 1945 (German)|publisher=Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten|year=2006|isbn=3-910068-16-2}}</ref> In May 1940, [[Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)|Prince Wilhelm of Prussia]], the son of Crown Prince William, nominated by Wilhelm as the ''fourth Kaiser,'' took part in the [[Battle of France|invasion of France]]. He was wounded during the fighting in [[Valenciennes]] and died on 26 May 1940. The service drew over 50,000 mourners.<ref name="Preussen">{{cite web| url=http://www.preussen.de/de/geschichte/kronprinz_wilhelm/kinder/wilhelm.html| title=Wilhelm Prinz von Preussen (in German)| publisher=Preussen.de| access-date=2008-07-12|language=de}}</ref> His death and the ensuing sympathy of the German public toward a member of the former German royal house greatly bothered [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], and he began to see the [[Hohenzollern]]s as a threat to his power. In 1940, Hitler issued the ''[[Prinzenerlass]],'' prohibiting princes from [[List of German monarchs in 1918|German royal houses]] from military service in the ''Wehrmacht''.<ref name="Preussen"/>
[[File:DettenSahmGoeringLippertErnstGoerlitzer.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Gathering of high-ranking Nazi officials in Berlin in 1933. Left to right: [[Georg von Detten]] ([[Victims of the Night of the Long Knives#The official list of those killed|NB]]) (chief of the Political Office of SA Supreme Command), [[Heinrich Sahm]] (Lord Mayor of Berlin), [[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia|August Wilhelm of Prussia]] (SA-Group Leader), [[Hermann Göring]] ([[Minister President of Prussia]]), [[Julius Lippert]] (Berlin State Commissioner), [[Karl Ernst]], (Commander of the Berlin SA) and [[Artur Görlitzer]] (Deputy ''Gauleiter'' of Berlin). NB: Hitler personally named von Detten with the [[Victims of the Night of the Long Knives]].]]
'''[[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia]]''' was the fourth son of Emperor Wilhelm II, by his first wife, Augusta Victoria. In 1933 August Wilhelm had a position in the Prussian state, and became a member of the German [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]. The former prince hoped "that Hitler would one day hoist him or his son Alexander up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser". In 1939 August Wilhelm was made an ''SA-[[Obergruppenführer]]'', the second highest ''SA'' rank. Translated as "senior group leader",{{sfn|McNab|2009|p=15}} ''Obergruppenführer'' was a [[Nazi Party]] paramilitary rank first created in 1932 as a [[Ranks and insignia of the Sturmabteilung|rank of the SA]], and adopted by the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' one year later. Until 1942, it was the highest commissioned [[SS rank|''SS'' rank]], inferior only to ''[[Reichsführer-SS]]'' [[Heinrich Himmler]].
As listed, Prince August was given Nazi Party membership number '''24''', at number '''12''' was ''[[SS-Obergruppenführer]]'' [[Philipp Bouhler]]. He was a ''[[SS]]-[[Reichsleiter]]'', (the same ''SS'' rank as [[Himmler]] and [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]]), he was second only to the rank of the ''[[Führer]]'' in the Nazi Party. Philipp Bouhler, worked alongside [[Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse]] who was a close friend of Göring. Bouhler was head of Nazi ''[[Action T4]]'' [[euthanasia|euthanasia program]] for children and the handicapped; ''(70,000 murders)''. [[Deputy Führer|Deputy ''Führer'']] to Hitler, also ranked ''SS-Obergruppenführer'', and also ''SS-Reichsleiter'', [[Rudolf Hesse]] was number '''16'''. Hesse and Hitler, like Göring, held a shared belief in the [[stab-in-the-back myth]], that Germany's loss in WWI was caused by a conspiracy of Jews and [[Bolshevik]]s rather than a military defeat.{{sfn|Nesbit|van Acker|2011|p=15}}{{sfn|Evans|2003|p=177}}
After the death of Prince August's father, [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] in 1941, more so after making derogatory remarks about [[Joseph Goebbels]], Prince August was denounced in 1942, side-lined and also banned from making public speeches. In 1945, with former [[Crown Princess Cecilie]], August Wilhelm fled the approaching [[Red Army]] to [[Kronberg]] to take refuge with his aunt [[Princess Margaret of Prussia]].
'''[[Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia|Prince Alexander Ferdinand]]''' was the only son of [[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia|Prince August Wilhelm]] and his wife [[Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Princess Alexandra Victoria]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} In 1939, Prince Alexander was a first lieutenant in the [[Luftwaffe|Air Force]] Signal Corps.<ref name=nyt1>{{Cite news
| title = Family of Ex-Kaiser Sends Many to Front
| newspaper = The New York Times
| date = 26 November 1939
| access-date = <!-----14 December 2010----->}}</ref><ref name=wp1>{{Cite news
| last = Associated Press
| title = Kaiser's Kin Serve Hitler In Nazi Army
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| date = 26 November 1939
| access-date = <!-----14 December 2010----->}}</ref> Like his father, Prince August hoped that Hitler "would one day hoist him, or his son, up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser". Prince Alexander’s, and his father’s, support for the Nazis caused disagreements among the Hohenzollerns, with Wilhelm II urging them both to leave the Nazi party.<ref name=M449>{{cite book|first=Giles|last=MacDonogh|title=The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pugb-T6mWB8C&q=prince+%22alexander+ferdinand%22+of+prussia+nazi&pg=PA449|isbn=9780312305574|page=449}}</ref> In 1933, Prince Alexander quit the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and became a private in the German regular army.<ref name=ten1/> In 1934, [[Berlin]] leaked out that the prince quit the SA because Hitler had chosen 21-year-old Alexander Ferdinand to succeed him as "head man in Germany when he [Hitler] no longer can carry the torch".<ref name=ten1>{{Cite news
| title = Prince Chosen by Hitler as Reich Regent
| newspaper = Tonawanda Evening News
| date = 2 January 1934
| url =http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/North%20Tonawanda%20NY%20Evening%20News/North%20Tonawanda%20NY%20Evening%20News%201934%20%20Grayscale/North%20Tonawanda%20NY%20Evening%20News%201934%20%20Grayscale%20-%200021.pdf
| access-date = <!-----14 December 2010----->}}</ref> The report said Joseph Goebbels was expected to oppose the prince's nomination.<ref name=ten1/> Unlike many princes untrusted and removed from their commands by Hitler, Prince Alexander was the only Hohenzollern allowed to remain at his post.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=243}}
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! NSDAP<br/>[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|35px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|50px]]Prussian Princes in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|50px]]
|-
| NSDAP – '''24''' || Joined: 1 April 1930|| [[File:Standarte Standartenführer NSFK.svg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|55px]] ||align="center" |  [[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia]]  || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Reichsadler 1889.svg|centre|70px]] [[Prussia]] || [[File:Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia.jpg|left|70px]] Born 29 January 1887. Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia was the fourth son of [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]] by his first wife, [[Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein]]. Prince August joined NSDAP on 1 April 1930, with the low membership number 24. In 1931, he was accepted into the ''[[Sturmabteilung|SA]]'' with the rank of "''[[Standartenführer]]''", this rank later representing the ''SS-Standartenführer of the Waffen-SS''. Prince August hoped "that Hitler would one day hoist him or his son Alexander up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser".
|-
| NSDAP – 534782||Joined: 1 May 1931||[[File:Lw Fahne LPG GG I Bat.svg|60px]][[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|55px]]||align="center" | [[Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Reichsadler 1889.svg|centre|70px]]Prussia ||[[File:Prinz August Wilhelm von Preußen 2.jpg|left|70px]] Born 26 December 1912. Prince Alexander of Prussia was son of [[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia|Prince August Wilhelm]] and [[Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Princess Alexandra Victoria]]. As of November 1939, Prince Alexander Ferdinand was a first lieutenant in the [[Luftwaffe|Air Force]] Signal Corps, stationed in [[Wiesbaden]].<ref name="nyt1" /><ref name=wp1/><ref name=nyt2/> In 1933 Prince Alexander Ferdinand quit the SA and became a private in the German regular army.<ref name=ten1/>
|-
| NSDAP – 2407422||Joined: 1 May 1935||[[File:Balkenkreuz.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Karl Franz of Prussia]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Reichsadler 1889.svg|centre|70px]]Prussia ||[[File:Marie Auguste von Anhalt.jpg|left|70px]]Born 15 December 1916. Prince Karl Franz was the only child born to [[Prince Joachim of Prussia]] by his wife [[Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt]]. In [[World War II]], Karl Franz served as a lieutenant in an armoured car division, and at one point was stationed on the Polish front.<ref name=nyt8>{{Cite news
| title = Kaiser's Grandson is Killed in Action
| newspaper = The New York Times
| date = 17 September 1939
| url =https://search.proquest.com/openurl/handler/AN$28102735744$29+OR+AN$28102740595$29
| access-date = <!-----9 February 2010----->}}</ref> He was awarded the Iron Cross.
|-
|}
==Kingdom of Bavaria==
(Abolished 13 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Königreich Bayern (Grosses).jpg|left|90px]]
{{infobox royal house
| surname          = House of Wittelsbach
| parent house     =
| titles           = [[King of Bavaria]]<br/>[[King of Denmark]]<br/>[[King of Sweden]]<br/>[[King of Norway]]<br/>[[King of Greece]]
}}
[[File:Kingludwig3bavaria.jpg|left|90px]]
'''[[Ludwig III of Bavaria|King Ludwig III]]'''
[[King Ludwig III of Bavaria]] may have been Hitler's first association with the Kaiserreich nobility. At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Ludwig III received a petition from [[Adolf Hitler]], asking for permission to join the [[Royal Bavarian Army]]. The petition was granted and Hitler joined the [[Royal Bavarian Army]], where he served the remainder of WWI.<ref>
''See, e.g.,'' {{cite book  | last = Toland | first = John  | title = Adolf Hitler  | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company  | year = 1976  | location = New York  | pages = 57–58| isbn = 0-385-03724-4}} ("''Toland''") ''and''
{{cite book  | last = Large| first = David C.| title = Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich  | publisher = Doubleday & Company  | year = 1997  | location = New York  | pages = 48–49| isbn = 0-393-03836-X}} ("''Large''").</ref><ref>This account is based on Hitler's recollections in ''Mein Kampf''. Kershaw holds that Hitler's story is simply not credible and suggests that bureaucratic error, rather than bureaucratic efficiency, was responsible for Hitler's enlistment; indeed, as a national of an allied country, he should have been sent to Austria for service in that army. Based on Bavarian government investigations in 1924, the more likely scenario in Kershaw's view is that Hitler applied for enlistment, along with thousands of other youths, on or about 5 August 1914, was initially turned away because the authorities were overwhelmed with applicants and had no place to assign him, and eventually was recalled to serve in the 2nd Infantry Regiment (2nd Battalion), before being assigned to Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (the List Regiment), which was principally made up of raw recruits. {{cite book  | last = Kershaw| first = Ian| title = Adolf Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris  | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company  | year = 1999  | location = New York  | pages = 89–90| isbn = 0-393-04671-0}} ("''Kershaw''").</ref>
As the war drew to a close, the [[German Revolution of 1918–19|German Revolution]] broke out in Bavaria, and Ludwig III was the first Kaiserreich monarch to be deposed.<br />
On 7 November 1918, King Ludwig fled from [[Munich]] with his family to ''[[Anif Palace|Schloss Anif]]'', near [[Salzburg]]. On 12 November 1918, King Ludwig gave Prime Minister Dandl the [[Anif declaration]], releasing all government officials, soldiers and civil officers from their oath of loyalty to him. The [[republicanism|republican]] government of [[Kurt Eisner]] declared the [[House of Wittelsbach|Wittelsbachs]] deposed, ending 700 years of Wittelsbacher rule over [[Bavaria]].<ref>[http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel_44319 Anifer Erklärung, 12./13. November 1918] (in German) Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, accessed: 10 May 2008</ref><br />
'''[[Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria]]''' – Ludwig's son and heir did not join the [[Far-right politics|far right]] in Germany, despite [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s attempts to win him over through [[Ernst Röhm]] and promises of royal restoration.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Rupprecht opposed Hitler and a plan to give Rupprecht dictatorial powers in Bavaria under the title of {{ill|Staatskommissar|de}}, attracted support from a wide coalition of parties, even including the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] and [[Wilhelm Hoegner]]. However, the hesitancy of the Bavarian government under ''[[Minister-President]]'' [[Heinrich Held]] and Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 ended all hopes for the idea.<ref>[https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/royalty-and-honour-at-war-and-peace/ Royalty and Honour at War and Peace]</ref> Rupprecht continued to harbor the idea of the ''restoration of the Bavarian monarchy'', in a possible union with [[Austria]] as an independent Southern Germany.<ref name=kirchen>{{BBKL|r/rupprecht_m_l_f|band=22|autor= Manfred Berger|artikel=Rupprecht, Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Kronprinz von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, Herzog von Bayern, Franken und in Schwaben usw.|spalten=1173-1186}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2017|reason=kirchen is undefined}}<br />
In a memorandum in 1943, Prince Rupprecht even mentioned his ambition for the German crown, (''of the Kaiserreich''), which had been held by the [[House of Wittelsbach]] in the past.
==Kingdom of Saxony==
(Abolished 13 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Königreich Sachsen (Grosses).png|100px|left]]
{{Royal house|
| surname = House of Wettin
| titles =
*[[Kingdom of Saxony|King of Saxony]]
*[[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania]]
*[[Duchy of Warsaw|Duke of Warsaw]]
*[[Monarch of the United Kingdom]] and the [[British Empire]]
*[[Emperor of India]]
*[[King of Bulgaria]]
*[[Portuguese Empire|Monarch of Portugal and the Algarves]]
*[[King of the Belgians]]
}}
[[File:PrinceGeorgSaxony.jpg|left|85px|thumb|Prince Georg]]
'''King [[Frederick Augustus III of Saxony]]'''
[[Frederick Augustus III of Saxony|Frederick Augustus III]] was the last [[King of Saxony]] and a member of the [[House of Wettin]]. He voluntarily abdicated as King on 13 November 1918. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. He said: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better."<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882120,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027074941/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882120,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 27, 2010 | magazine=Time | title=Milestones, Feb. 29, 1932 | date=29 February 1932 | access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref> Upon abdicating, he is supposed to have said "Nu da machd doch eiern Drägg alleene!" ([[Upper Saxon German|Saxon]] for "Well then do your sh... by yourselves!"). When cheered by a crowd in a railroad station several years after his abdication, he stuck his head out of the train's window and shouted, "You're a fine lot of republicans, I'll say!"<ref name="Time"/> After his father's [[abdication]] in 1919, [[Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony]], the king's first-born son and heir, renounced his rights on the Saxon throne to become a [[Catholic]] priest. This was very controversial among people who hoped that the monarchy might one day be restored. He worked in Berlin where he was credited with protecting [[Jews]] from the [[Nazi]] regime<ref>[http://www.bistum-dresden-meissen.de/Detailed/710.html Diocese of Dresden-Meissen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923191212/http://www.bistum-dresden-meissen.de/Detailed/710.html |date=2015-09-23 }}{{in lang|de}} retrieved on 9 November 2008</ref> in notable contrast to his pro-Nazi brothers-in-law, [[Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern|Prince Frederich of Hohenzollern]] and [[Franz Joseph Prinz von Hohenzollern-Emden|Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzolllern-Emden]], who joined the ''[[SS]]''. As a leading Roman Catholic nobleman and near relative of the [[Habsburg]], [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]], and [[Saxony|Saxon]] dynasties, Prince Franz Joseph did much to lend respectability to the Nazi party.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Burleigh | first1 = Michael | author-link1 = Michael Burleigh | last2 = Wipperman | first2 = Wolfgang | title = The Racial State: Germany, 1933–1945 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = November 29, 1991 | location = New York | pages = 274 | isbn = 978-0-521-39114-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Thomas | first1 = W Hugh | title = The strange death of Heinrich Himmler: a forensic investigation | publisher = St. Martin's Press | date = March 22, 2002 | location = New York | pages = 32 | isbn = 0-312-28923-5}}</ref>
==Kingdom of Württemberg==
(Abolished 30 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Württemberg, 1817.svg|100px|left]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H28245, Berlin, Kundgebung des HJ-Landdienstes.jpg|thumb|right|250px| [[Gertrud Scholtz-Klink]], [[Heinrich Himmler]], [[Rudolf Hess]], [[Baldur von Schirach]], and [[Artur Axmann]]. Hitler Youth Rally 13 February 1939.]]
'''King [[William II of Wurttemberg]]'''
King William II abdicated on 30 November 1918.<ref>[http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/HGWurttemberg.htm#1918 Abdication text (in German)]</ref> '''[[Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877–1965)|Princess Pauline]]''' was the elder daughter of [[William II of Württemberg]]. Princess Pauline was a first cousin of: [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]], and [[Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone]], and senior Nazi Party members [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] and [[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]. Princess Pauline was indicted by a United States Military Government court for "having concealed two prominent Nazis since October 1945." The princess admitted "having deliberately provided a haven" for [[Gertrud Scholtz-Klink]] and her husband, former Maj. General [[August Heissmeyer|August Heissmayer]] of the ''[[SS]]''. The Princess had acknowledged knowing that "Scholtz-Klink was known as the chief of all Nazi women's organizations," but she denied awareness of Heissmayer's ''SS'' position. Scholtz-Klink told the authorities that she did not know whether "[[Adolf Hitler]] was alive or dead," but "as long as he lives in the hearts of his followers, he cannot die."<ref>Princess indicted for helping the Nazis. ''[[The New York Times]]''. March 3, 1948</ref>
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! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Württemberg Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 3726902||Joined: 1 April 1936||  ||align="center" | [[Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] ||align="center" |  [[File:DEU Langenburg COA.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Langenburg|| Born 13 June 1863. Ernst was the son, of [[Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]], and [[Princess Leopoldine of Baden]], daughter of [[Prince William of Baden]]. He married [[Queen Victoria]]'s granddaughter, [[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh]], daughter of [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|The Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh]] and [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia|Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna]]. Prince Ernst was the Regent of the Duchy of [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] during the minority of his wife's cousin, Duke Charles Edward.
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| NSDAP – 4969451||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] || align="center" | [[File:DEU Langenburg COA.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Langenburg ||[[File:Sandra, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.jpg|left|60px]] Born 1 September 1878. Princess Sandra was the fourth child and third daughter of [[Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh]] and [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia]]. She was the wife of Ernst II.
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| NSDAP – 4023070||Joined: 1 May 1937|| [[File:Regulation WW II Upperwing Balkenkreuz.png|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] ||align="center" |  [[File:DEU Langenburg COA.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Langenburg || Born 24 March 1897. Gottfried was the son of Prince Ernst II. After 1918, Gottfried continued to serve as a leader of the European aristocracy.<ref name=nyt1/> He served in the German army in [[World War II]], becoming severely injured at the Russian front. He was dismissed from the army after the abortive [[attempt on Adolf Hitler's life]] on [[20 July plot|20 July 1944]].<ref name=nyt1/> In 1931, Prince Gottfried married [[Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark]], the sister of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], in 1947 he became brother-in-law to [[Elizabeth II]].
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Unknown ? Württemberg nobility
! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]''Unknown ?'' Württemberg Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| [[NSDAP]] – 1234146||Joined: 1 August 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Albert Albrecht of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein]] ||align="center" | [[File:Bartenstein-Wappen ZW.png|60px]] Hohenlohe-Bartenstein || Born 9 March 1906. Prince Albert Albrecht of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and Jagstberg, was born in Württemberg, son of Johannes, VIII and [[Archduchess Anna Maria Theresia of Austria]]. The husband of [[Countess Therese of Hohenlohe]].
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| NSDAP – 1331054||Joined: 1 September 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Lahmann Mariella of Hohenlohe-Oehringen]] ||align="center" | [[File:Wappen Öhringen.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Oehringen || Born 31 August 1900. Countess Maria-Gabrielle (Mariella) Hedwig von Faber-Castell. On 1 May 1935, she married [[Prince Max Hugo Paul Friedrich Karl Egon zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen]] (1893–1951).
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| NSDAP – 1359811||Joined: 1 November 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Carl of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein]] || align="center" | [[File:Bartenstein-Wappen ZW.png|60px]] Hohenlohe-Bartenstein || Born 20 October 1905. Carl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, was husband of [[Clara, Baroness von Meyern-Hohenberg]], married 7 November 1912.
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| NSDAP – 3587919||Joined: 1 May 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] || align="center" | [[File:DEU Langenburg COA.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Langenburg || Born 22 April 1902. Daughter of Ernst II. Princess Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (2 April 1901 – 26 October 1963).
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| NSDAP – 1891373||Joined: 1 May 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Bartenstein-Wappen ZW.png|60px]] Hohenlohe-Bartenstein || Born 3 September 1910. Frederick, Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein. Prince Friedrich Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, was the son of Prince Johannes Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (b.1863) of Württemberg, and Princess Anna Austria-Toscana (b.1879) in Bavaria. He was husband of Marie Claire Buet.
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| NSDAP – 2151756||Joined: 1 May 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Max-Hugo of Hohenlohe-Öhringen]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Öhringen.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Oehringen  || Born 25 March 1893. Prince Max Hugo of Hohenlohe-Öhringen was the son of Max Anton Karl Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen and Helene Gräfin von Hatzfeldt. He married, firstly, Maria-Gabrielle Gräfin von Faber-Castell, daughter of [[Alexander Friedrich Lothar Graf von Faber-Castell]] and [[Sophie Ottilie Gräfin von Faber]], divorced 1931. He married, secondly, Hella von Ramin in 1941. He and Hella divorced in 1942. He married, thirdly, Marianne Liselotte Diefenthal. He died on 17 October 1951 in Wurttemberg.
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| NSDAP – 3409977||Joined: 1 May 1933|| ||align="center" | [[(Prince) Grand Duke Karl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] ||align="center" | [[File:Großherzogin Sachsen Weimar.jpg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach || Born 31 July 1908. "According to His Royal Highest resolution. Highness graciously reigning Grand Duke Karl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from March 16, 1892 granted the rights of a legal personality".
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| NSDAP – 1787117||Joined: 1 July 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Friedrich Karl Kraft]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of the house of Hohenlohe (1).svg|60px]][[Hohenlohe]]  || Born 16 March 1892. Prince Friedrich Karl KRAFT, born in Dresden (d. 2 September 1965), was a son of Prince [[Hans zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen|Hans Heinrich Georg, Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Duke of Ujest]] and [[Princess Gertrud Auguste Mathilde Olga von Hohenlohe-Öhringen]]. Died with his wife Florence Nina Chischina (1898–1965), in Rome, of wounds received in a car wreck.
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| NSDAP – 3508258||Joined: 1 January 1936|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Rudolph of Hohenlohe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of the house of Hohenlohe (1).svg|60px]][[Hohenlohe]]  || Born 1 December 1903.
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| NSDAP – 5637217||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Hella of Hohenlohe]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Öhringen.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Oehringen || Born 25 February 1883. Princess Hela was the wife of Prince Max-Hugo. Hella von Ramin was born on 25 February 1883. She was the daughter of Paul von Ramin and Gunhild von Ramin-Daber. She married, (third husband) Prince Max-Hugo in 1941. She and Max-Hugo divorced in 1942. She died on 7 January 1943.
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| NSDAP – 4453767||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Irma of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] ||align="center" |  [[File:DEU Langenburg COA.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Langenburg || Born 4 July 1902. Daughter of Ernst II. Princess Irma of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (4 July 1902 – 8 March 1986).
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| NSDAP – 5371558||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Hugo Felix August zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Wappen Öhringen.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Oehringen  || Born 28 April 1890. Prince Hugo Felix August zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen, was son of Prince [[Hans zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen|Hans Heinrich Georg, Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Duke of Ujest]] and Princess Gertrud Auguste Mathilde Olga von Hohenlohe-Öhringen. He was husband of [[Valerie von Carstanjen]] and [[Ursula von Zedlitz]]. He was father of [[Princess Alexandra Olga Elsa zu Hohenlohe Ohringen]], and [[Princess Dorothea Elisabeth zu Hohenlohe Ohringen]], (d.28 August 1962).
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| NSDAP – 6294978||Joined: 1 May 1938|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst]]||align="center" |  [[File:DEU Schillingsfürst COA.svg|60px]]Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst || Born 31 March 1889. Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of [[Konrad, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst]] and [[Franzisca Countess of Schönborn-Buchheim]]. He was the husband of Catherine Britton. Father of [[Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst]]. Brother of [[Franziska Maria Anna von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst]]. He died on 21 October 1948 in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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| NSDAP – 6580922||Joined: 1 December 1938|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Karl of Hohenlohe]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of the house of Hohenlohe (1).svg|60px]][[Hohenlohe]]  || Born 1 December 1903.
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| NSDAP – 6580933||Joined: 1 December 1938|| [[File:Regulation WW II Upperwing Balkenkreuz.png|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Gottfried Constantin of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] ||align="center" |  [[File:DEU Langenburg COA.svg|60px]] Hohenlohe-Langenburg || Born 11 September 1893. Gottfried Constantin of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the son of Kuk privy councilor [[Prince Gottfried Karl Joseph]] and [[Anna von Schönborn-Buchheim]]. In WWII, Constantin was [[adjutant]] of the [[Commander-in-chief|Supreme Commander]] in [[Belgium]]. After June 1944, he was assigned as head of the military administration in [[Estonia]]. Captain Hohenlohe was later fired from the ''[[Wehrmacht]]''.
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| NSDAP – 6510492||Joined: 1 December 1938|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Viktoria of Hohenlohe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of the house of Hohenlohe (1).svg|60px]][[Hohenlohe]]  || Born 20 October 1914.
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==Grand Duchy of Baden==
(Abolished 22 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Grossherzogtum Baden.png|100px|left]]
[[File:Prince Max of Baden and family.jpg|thumb|120px|Prince Maximilian]]
'''[[Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden]]'''
Grand Duke Frederick II abdicated on 22 November 1918, during the [[German Revolution of 1918–19]] which resulted in the abolition of the Grand Duchy. After his death in 1928, the headship of the house was transferred over to his [[Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden|great uncle's]] grandson, [[Prince Maximilian of Baden]]. His successor Prince Maximilian, was the [[List of Chancellors of Germany|Chancellor of Germany]] and [[Minister President of Prussia]], and the chief negotiator of the Kaiserreich abdication. Prince Max was married to [[Princess Marie Louise of Hanover]], eldest daughter of [[Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale|Ernest Augustus II]] and [[Princess Thyra of Denmark|Thyra of Denmark]]. Prince Max's son [[Berthold, Margrave of Baden|Prince Berthold of Baden]] married [[Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969)|Princess Theodora]], daughter of [[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark]] and [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]]. As such, Prince Berthold was brother-in-law to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] and eventually [[Elizabeth II]]. In 1920, with [[Kurt Hahn]], Prince Max established the [[Schule Schloss Salem]] school<ref name=DHM>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BadenMax/index.html|title=Biografie Prinz Max von Baden (German)|publisher=Deutsches Historisches Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702013559/http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BadenMax/index.html|access-date=22 July 2013|archive-date=2014-07-02}}</ref><ref name=Bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz59366.html|title=Biografie Prinz Max von Baden (German)|publisher=Bayerische Staatsbibliothek|access-date=22 July 2013}}</ref> attended by [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]].<ref>Prince Philip quoted in Brandreth, p. 72</ref> Kurt Hahn also founded [[Gordonstoun]] in [[Scotland]] attended by Philips heir, [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]].
==Grand Duchy of Hesse==
(Abolished 9 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Grossherzogtum Hessen.png|100px|left]]
{{Royal house|
| surname = House of Hesse
| titles = [[List of rulers of Hesse#Grand Dukes of Hesse (-Darmstadt) and by Rhine, 1806–1918|Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine]]<br />[[Swedish Kings#The House of Hesse|King of Sweden]]<br />[[King of Finland]]
| cadet branches =[[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel|Hesse-Kassel]]<br />[[Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld]]<br />[[Battenberg family|Battenberg]] ([[Mountbatten]])<br />[[Frederick William, Elector of Hesse#Children|Hanau-Schaumburg]]
}}
'''[[Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse]]'''
Prince Frederick Charles was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor [[Wilhelm II]]. Frederick Charles was elected as the ''[[King of Finland]]'' by the [[Parliament of Finland]] on 9 October 1918. However, with the abdication of Emperor [[Wilhelm II|Wilhelm II of Germany]] ending monarchies in Germany, Finland adopted a [[republic]]an [[constitution]]. His first son [[Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse]] joined the [[Nazi Party]] in 1930, and the [[Sturmabteilung|SA. Stormtroopers]] in 1932. In 1933, his three other brothers joined the (SS) and the SA. Prince Philipp of Hesse became a particularly close friend of [[Hermann Göring]], the future head of the [[Luftwaffe]]. After Hindenburg's appointment of [[Adolf Hitler]] as Chancellor in 1933, Philipp was appointed ''Oberpräsident'' (Governor) of [[Hesse-Nassau]], and a member of the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], and of the Prussian Staatsrat. Philipp played an important role in the consolidation of Nazi rule in Germany. He introduced other aristocrats to NSDAP officials and, as son-in-law of the [[King of Italy]], was a frequent go-between for Hitler and [[Benito Mussolini]]. As Governor of [[Kassel (region)|Hesse-Kassel]], Philipp was complicit in the [[T-4 Euthanasia Program]]. In February 1941, Philipp signed the contract placing the sanitarium of [[Hadamar Killing Facility|Hadamar Clinic]] at the disposal of the Reich Interior Ministry. Over 10,000 mentally ill people were murdered there. In 1946, Prince Philipp of Hesse was charged with murder, but the charges were later dropped.
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R26074, Reichstreffen des Reichsbundes Volkstum und Heimat.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Philip of Hesse, second from right in first row. [[Kassel]], 1933]]
Prince Frederick's other son [[Prince Christoph of Hesse]] was a [[Schutzstaffel|SS. Schutzstaffel]] officer. Prince Christophe was a director in the [[Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany)|Ministry of Aviation]], Commander of the Air Reserves, with a rank of ''[[Oberführer]]'' in the ''[[SS]]''.<ref name="gotha">{{cite book | title=[[Almanach de Gotha]] | publisher=[[Justus Perthes]] | year=1944 | location=Gotha, Germany | pages=61–62}}</ref> In 1943, he was killed in an airplane accident in a war zone near Italy.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Prince Christoph was a great-grandson of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] through their daughter [[Victoria, Princess Royal]], wife of [[Frederick III, German Emperor]]. Christoph married [[Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark]]. Princess Sophie was the youngest daughter of [[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark]] and [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]], and the sister of the future [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]].
'''Prince Wilhelm of Hesse''' was heir to the [[Hesse-Philippsthal]] line. Prince Wilhelm was the eldest child of [[Chlodwig, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld|Prince Chlodwig of Hesse]] and [[Princess Caroline of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich]]. In 1932 he joined the Nazi Party and SS, rising to the rank [[SS-Hauptsturmführer]].<ref name=adg/>{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p= }}{{page needed|date=November 2017}} Prince Wilhelm married [[Princess Marianne of Prussia|Princess Marianne]], the daughter of [[Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia]].<ref name=adg>{{cite book |title=[[Almanach de Gotha]] |year=1942 |publisher=[[Justus Perthes (publishing company)|Justus Perthes]] |page=62 }}</ref> During WWII Prince Wilhelm refused to join an SS unit, instead switching to the regular German Army, where he became a captain of infantry.<ref name=adg/><ref name="Milw Journal 1942-07-31">{{cite news |title=Four high Nazis dead, Berlin says |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=njUdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4299,5340571&dq= |page=1 |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=31 July 1942 |access-date=21 June 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was killed in action during the fighting at Gor on the Eastern Front.
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! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Hesse Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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|[[NSDAP]] – 418991||Joined: 1 October 1930|| [[File:SturmabteilungSA.jpg|60px]] || align="center" | [[Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse]] || align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] ||[[File:Philipp von Hessen 1896-1980 Prinz Landgraf (Prince and Landgrave of Hesse) NSDAP Politiker Sturmabteilung SA-Oberfuehrer (Nazi party uniform Senior leader) National Archives NARA (Misc Photos 1919-1934) Unrestricted No known copyright.jpg|left|70px]] Born 6 November 1896. Philipp was son of [[Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse]] and [[Princess Margaret of Prussia]], (sister of Wilhelm II). In 1932, he joined the ([[Sturmabteilung|SA]]). In 1933 his brothers joined the ([[SS]]) and the (SA). He was a member of [[Reichstag (Nazi Germany)|Reichstag]] and [[Prussia]]n [[Staatsrat]]. Through his party membership, Philipp became a particularly close friend of [[Hermann Göring]]. He introduced aristocrats to NSDAP officials and, as son-in-law of the [[King of Italy]], he was a go-between for [[Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]].
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|NSDAP – 696176||Joined: 1 November 1931||<br/><br/>[[File:Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Christoph of Hesse]] ||align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] ||[[File:Cristóbal de Hesse, 1901.jpg|left|70px]] Born 14 May 1901. Prince Christoph was a director in the [[Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany)|Ministry of Aviation]], and the Commander of the Air Reserves, and in 1933, held the rank of ''[[Oberführer]]'' in the ''[[SS]]''.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Oberführer was a rank of the [[Nazi Party]] dating back to 1921. Translated as “senior leader”, an ''Oberführer'' was a Nazi Party member in charge of a group of paramilitary units in a particular geographical region.
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|  NSDAP – 1187621||Joined: 1 May 1932||[[File:Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:Balkenkreuz.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld ||align="center" | [[File:Wappen Philippsthal (Werra).png|60px]]Hesse-Philippsthal||Born 1 May 1905. In 1932, Prince Wilhelm joined the Nazi party and the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] rising to the rank [[SS-Hauptsturmführer]].<ref name="adg" />{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p= }}{{page needed|date=November 2017}} Prince Wilhelm married [[Princess Marianne of Prussia]]. During WWII Prince Wilhelm refused to join an SS unit, instead switching to the regular German Army, where he became a captain of infantry.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p= }}{{page needed|date=November 2017}}<ref name="Milw Journal 1942-07-31" /> He was killed in action during the fighting at Gor on the Eastern Front.
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| NSDAP – 1794944||Joined: 1 May 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Wolfgang of Hesse]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen-HK (1917).svg|60px]]Hesse-Kassel ||Born 6 November 1896. Prince Wolfgang of [[Electorate of Hesse|Hesse-Kassel]] was the designated Hereditary Prince of the [[monarchy of Finland]], ''(with a pretension to [[Estonia]])'', and as such, called the [[Crown Prince]] of [[Finland]] officially until 14 December 1918, and also afterwards by some monarchists.
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|  NSDAP – 7900128||Joined: 1 January 1940||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden]] || align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]]Hesse-Hesse by Rhine||[[File:Marie Alexandra of Baden.jpg|left|80px]] Born 1 August 1902. Princess Marie was the wife of [[Prince Wolfgang of Hesse]]. She was daughter of [[Prince Maximilian of Baden]] (1867&ndash;1929) and [[Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland]]. Her paternal grandparents were [[Prince Wilhelm of Baden (1829–1897)|Prince Wilhelm of Baden]] (1829&ndash;97) and Princess Maria of [[Leuchtenberg]] (1841&ndash;1914). Marie Alexandra's grandmother Thyra was a sister of [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Empress Maria Fedorovna]] and aunt of [[Nicholas II of Russia]], the last Romanov tsar.
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||  NSDAP – 4628851||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Marianne of Prussia]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Philippsthal (Werra).png|60px]]Hesse-Philippsthal ||Born 23 August 1913. Princess Marianne was the wife of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse. She was a descendant of [[Frederick William III of Prussia|King Frederick William III of Prussia]] and [[William I of the Netherlands|King William I of the Netherlands]]. She was named after her great-grandmother [[Princess Marianne of the Netherlands]]. She was a [[third cousin]] of [[William, German Crown Prince]].
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| NSDAP – 4814689||Joined: 1 May 1938||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse]] ||align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] ||[[File:Friedrich Karl HK 02.jpg|left|70px]] Born 1 May 1868. In 1893, Frederick Charles married [[Princess Margaret of Prussia]], youngest sister of [[Wilhelm II]] and a granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]] of Great Britain. They had six children, including two sets of twins.
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| NSDAP – 4814690||Joined: 1 May 1938||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Margaret of Prussia]] || align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] ||[[File:Margit of Prussia.jpg|left|70px]] Born 22 May 1872. Princess Margaret of Prussia was a daughter of [[Frederick III, German Emperor]] and [[Victoria, Princess Royal]], and the younger sister of [[Wilhelm II]] and a granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]]. She married Prince Frederick Charles, the elected [[King of Finland]], making her the would-be Queen of [[Finland]]. In 1926, they became [[Landgrave]] and [[Landgravine]] of Hesse.
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Unknown ? Hessian nobility
|-
! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]''Unknown ?'' Hesse Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 1184026||Joined: 1 March 1932||[[File:SturmabteilungSA.jpg|60px]]  ||align="center" | [[Prince Alexis of Hesse-Philippsthal]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Philippsthal (Werra).png|60px]]Hesse-Philippsthal || Born 8 June 1911. Prince Alexis Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld. Was the son of [[Landgrave Chlodwig Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld]], and [[Princess Karoline Solms-Hohensolms-Lich]], b. 27 May 1877, d. 28 Nov 1958, Berlin, West Germany.
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| NSDAP – 1203662||Joined: 1 August 1932||[[File:Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Richard of Hesse]] || align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] ||Born 14 May 1901. Prince Richard was the twin brother of Prince Christopher.
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| NSDAP – 3515493||Joined: 1 May 1933||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Victoria Cecile of Hesse-Philippsthal]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Wappen Philippsthal (Werra).png|60px]]Hesse-Philippsthal ||Born 26 October 1914. Viktoria Cäcilie (1914–1998), Prince Wilhelm and Alexander Friedrich (1911–1939), were the children of [[Chlodwig, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld]], an officer in the Prussian Army and head of the [[Hesse-Philippsthal]] line of the [[House of Hesse]]. In the early 1930s three of Landgrave Chlodwig's children (Wilhelm, Alexander Friedrich and Viktoria Cäcilie) joined the [[Nazi party]]. His third son Prince Alexander Friedrich, who suffered from epilepsy, was [[Nazi eugenics|sterilised]] by the Nazis on 27 September 1938, he died a year later.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|pp=250, 381, 382}}
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|}
==Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine==
(Abolished 9 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Grossherzogtum Hessen.png|left|100px]]
[[File:The Family of the Grand Duke of Hesse.jpg|right|80px|thumb|Hesse Family]]
'''[[Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse]]'''
During [[World War I]], Grand Duke Ernest Louis served as an officer at [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm's]] headquarters. In July 1918, roughly sixteen months after the [[February Revolution of 1917|February Revolution]], which forced his brother-in-law, [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] from his throne, Ernst's two sisters in Russia, [[Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna|Elizabeth]], who had become a nun following the assassination of her husband, [[Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Sergei]], in 1905, and [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra]], the former tsarina, were killed by the [[Bolsheviks]]. At the end of the war, he lost his throne during the [[German Revolution|revolution of 1918]], after refusing to [[abdicate]].<ref>{{cite news
| title = Two More Rulers Give up Throne; Republics Proclaimed in Wurttemburg and Hesse—Ducal Lands Seized
| work = The New York Times
| pages = 1
| date =  14 November 1918
| url = http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F04E4DC1239E13ABC4C52DFB7678383609EDE
| access-date = 8 December 2008
| format=PDF}} ''Hesse mentioned toward the middle of the article''</ref> Ernst was the last ''Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine'' from 1892 until 1918.<ref>{{cite news
| title = Ex-ruler of Hesse Dead in Germany; Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig Was Ousted in 1918 After Reign Praised for Its Wisdom.
| work = The New York Times
| pages = 29
| date =  10 October 1937
| url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70C12FC385A157A93C2A8178BD95F438385F9&scp=5&sq=Ernst%20Grand%20Duke%20of%20Hesse&st=cse
| access-date = 8 December 2008}} ''Paid subscription required to read the full article.''</ref>
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! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Hesse and by Rhine Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 3766312||Joined: 1 May 1937||  ||align="center" | [[Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse]] || align="center" | [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] ||<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:GeorgdonatusHD.jpg|left|70px]]  -->Born 8 November 1906. Hereditary Grand Duke George was husband of [[Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark]].
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| NSDAP – 3766313||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Coat of arms of Hesse.svg|60px]][[Hesse]] || Born 22 January 1911. Princess Cecilie was a grandchild of King [[George I of Greece]] and Grand Duchess [[Olga Konstantinova of Russia]] (a granddaughter of Tsar [[Nicholas I of Russia]]). She was a great-great granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]]. Her brother Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen [[Elizabeth II]].
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| NSDAP – 5900506||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine]] ||align="center" | [[File:Wappen-HD.png|60px]][[Grand Duchy of Hesse|Hesse by Rhine]] ||[[File:Luís de Hesse (filho de Ernesto).JPG|left|70px]] Born 20 November 1908. [[Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine]], was the youngest son of [[Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse]] by his second wife, [[Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich]]. He succeeded his brother [[Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse|Georg Donatus]] as the titular Grand Duke of Hesse after his death. He married the Hon. [[Margaret Campbell-Geddes]] (1913–1997) daughter of [[Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes|Auckland Campbell-Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes]] in 1937, on the day after the [[Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash]]. In 1964, he stood as godfather to [[Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex]].
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==Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin==
(Abolished 14 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Mecklenburg-Schwerin.png|left|100px]]
'''[[Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]'''
Following the 1918 suicide of [[Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Grand Duke Adolphus Frederick VI of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], Grand Duke Frederick Francis took up the regency of Strelitz, after the heir presumptive [[Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg|Duke Charles Michael]], who was serving in the Russian Army at the time and had indicated that he wished to renounce his succession rights. Friedrich Franz abdicated the grand ducal throne on 14 November 1918 following the [[German Empire]]'s defeat in [[World War I]]; the regency ended at the same time.<ref name=heraldica>[http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/HGMecklenburg.htm House laws of Mecklenburg]</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2017|reason=heraldica is undefined}} His son [[Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Friedrich Franz]] joined the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (''SS''), and by 1936 held rank of ''[[Hauptsturmführer]]'' (Captain).{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=99}} He was posted to Denmark during WWII where he worked at the German embassy as a personal aide to Werner Best.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=99}} He spent 1944 serving with the ''Waffen-SS'' tank corps.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=99}} In May 1943, Friedrich Franz was passed over as heir in favour of his younger brother [[Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg|Duke Christian Louis]].{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=72}}
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|NSDAP – 504973||Joined: 1 May 1931||[[File:S SS-Pz Abt 101.jpg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svg|60px]]||align="center" | [[Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]] ||align="center" | [[File:Wappen Mecklenburg-Schwerin 2.svg|centre|70px]]<br/>[[Mecklenburg]] ||[[File:Friedrich Franz V.jpg|70px|left]]Born 22 April 1910. Duke Friedrich Franz was the [[heir apparent]] to the throne of [[Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Mecklenburg-Schwerin]], which his father abdicated on 14 November 1918. He was the eldest son of the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, [[Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg|Frederick Francis IV]], and his wife [[Princess Alexandra of Hanover (1882–1963)|Princess Alexandra of Hanover]], a daughter of [[Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover|the Crown Prince of Hanover]]. Friedrich Franz joined the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and promoted to ''[[Hauptsturmführer]]'' (Captain) by 1936.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=99}} During WWII he worked at the German embassy as a personal aide to Werner Best.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=99}} He spent 1944 serving with the [[Waffen-S]]S tank corps.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=99}}
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==Grand Duchy of Oldenburg==
(Abolished 11 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Grossherzogtum Oldenburg.png|100px|left]]
{{Royal house|
| surname = House of Oldenburg
| titles =
*[[List of rulers of Russia|Emperor of Russia]]
*[[List of Danish monarchs|King of Denmark]]
*[[List of Norwegian monarchs|King of Norway]]
*[[List of Swedish monarchs|King of Sweden]]
*[[List of Kings of Greece|King of Greece]]
*[[King of Iceland]]
*[[Rulers of Oldenburg|Grand Duke of Oldenburg]]
}}
'''[[Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg]]'''
Grand Duke Frederick was forced to abdicate his throne at the end of World War I, when the former Grand Duchy of the German Empire joined the post-war German Republic.<ref name=nyt5>{{Cite news
| title = Duchess Elisabeth
| newspaper = The New York Times
| date = 5 September 1955
| access-date = <!-----18 January 2010----->}}</ref> He and his family took up residence at [[Rastede Castle]], where he took up farming and local industrial interests.<ref name=nyt1/> A year after his abdication, he asked the Oldenburg Diet for a yearly allowance of 150,000 [[German Papiermark|marks]], stating that his financial condition was "extremely precarious".<ref name=nyt1/> In 1931, Frederick died in Rastede.<ref name=nyt5/>
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! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Oldenburg Grand Dukes in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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|NSDAP – 4085803||Joined: 1 May 1937||  ||align="center" | [[Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg]] ||align="center" | [[File:Blason Grand-duché d'Oldenbourg (Grandes armes).svg|centre|70px]] [[Oldenburg (city)|Oldenburg]] ||[[File:Nikolaus Friedrich, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg.jpg|left|70px]]Born 10 August 1897. Grand Duke Nikolaus was the eldest son of [[Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg]], last [[List of rulers of Oldenburg|ruling]] [[Grand Duchy of Oldenburg|Grand Duke of Oldenburg]]. As a first cousin of [[Juliana of the Netherlands|Queen Juliana of the Netherlands]], he was a guest at her 1937 wedding to fellow Nazi Party member, [[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}
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==Duchy of Anhalt==
(Abolished 12 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Herzogtum Anhalt (Großes).png|75px|left]]
'''[[Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt]]'''
Joachim Ernst succeeded his father as [[Duke of Anhalt]] on 13 September 1918, however due to his age his uncle [[Prince Aribert of Anhalt]] was appointed regent. His brief reign came to an end on 12 November 1918 with his uncle abdicating in his name following the German revolution. The duchy became the [[Free State of Anhalt]].
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! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Anhalt Dukes, Duchesses and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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|NSDAP – 3452693||Joined: 1 May 1934|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt]] ||align="center" | [[File:Freistaat Anhalt.gif|centre|60px]][[Anhalt]] ||[[File:Princess Joachim.jpg|left|70px]]Born 10 June 1898. Princess Marie Auguste was the daughter of [[Eduard, Duke of Anhalt]] and [[Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg]].<ref name="Scott-Keltie, J. 2016 p. 682">Scott-Keltie, J. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book. Springer. p. 682. {{ISBN|9780230270299}}.</ref>
Marie-Auguste married [[Prince Joachim of Prussia]], the youngest son of [[William II, German Emperor|German Emperor William II]]. The wedding was attended by Joachim's father Wilhelm II and mother [[Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein|Empress Augusta Viktoria]], and the [[Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt|Duke]] and Duchess of [[Anhalt]], etc. After Joachim committed suicide in 1920, in 1922, Marie-Auguste sued ex-Emperor Wilhelm for the financial support promised to her, in her and Joachim's marriage contract.<ref name="Scott-Keltie, J. 2016 p. 682"/>
|}
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|+ Unknown ? Anhalt nobility
! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]''Unknown ?'' Anhalt Dukes, Duchesses and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 4843880||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" |  [[Duchess Edda Charlotte of Anhalt]]||align="center" |  [[File:Freistaat Anhalt.gif|centre|60px]]Anhalt ||Born 20 August 1905
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| NSDAP – 7267717||Joined: 1 November 1939|| ||align="center" | [[Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt]]|| align="center" | [[File:Freistaat Anhalt.gif|centre|60px]]Anhalt ||Born 11 January 1901
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==Duchy of Brunswick==
(Abolished 8 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Herzogtum Braunschweig (Grosses).png|100px|left]]
{{Royal house|
| surname       = House of Hanover
| parent house  =
*[[House of Este|Este]] → [[House of Welf|Welf]]
| titles        =
*[[Emperor of India|Empress of India]]
*[[Kingdom of Great Britain|King of Great Britain]]
*[[English claims to the French throne|King of France]]
*[[Kingdom of Ireland|King of Ireland]]
*[[Kingdom of Hanover|King of Hanover]]
*[[Duchy of Brunswick|Duke of Brunswick]]
''etc''., ''etc''., ''etc''.
}}
'''[[Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]]'''
[[Ernst August, Crown Prince of Hanover]], was the only son of [[George V of Hanover]] and [[Marie of Saxe-Altenburg]]. Although he was the senior male-line great-grandson of [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]], the [[Duke of Cumberland]] was deprived of his British peerages and honours for having sided with [[German Empire|Germany]] in [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web|last=MacNeil|first=Swift|title=ALIEN PEERS|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1914/nov/18/alien-peers#S5CV0068P0_19141118_CWA_25|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office|access-date=28 November 2011|pages=HC Deb 18 November 1914 vol 68 cc437-8W|date=18 November 1914|quote=Mr. Swift MacNeill asked the Prime Minister (1) whether he is aware that the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, in the peerage of Great Britain, and Earl of Armagh, in the peerage of Ireland, and a prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, is in command of troops in the German Army, engaged in active hostilities against the Sovereign and people of the British Empire; whether he is aware that the first Duke of Cumberland, the paternal grandfather of the present duke, after his accession to the throne of Hanover, took the oath of allegiance in England, and sat in the House of Lords as a peer of Great Britain by hereditary right; whether the present Duke of Cumberland, who was born a British subject, has since divested himself of his British nationality and, if so, how and when; and whether, having regard to the fact that the present Duke of Cumberland is in arms with the enemies of the British Empire against the Sovereign of that Empire, and guilty of high treason, any and, if so, what steps will be taken to secure that he shall no longer retain British and Irish titles or peerages and a seat in the House of Lords; and (2) whether he is aware that the [[Duke of Albany]], [[Earl of Clarence]], and [[Baron Arklow]], in the peerage of the United Kingdom, prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, is in command of troops in the German Army, engaged in active hostilities against the Sovereign and people of the British Empire; whether he is aware that the Duke of Albany was born in England, a subject of the British Crown, and succeeded, at his birth as a posthumous child, to these United Kingdom titles or peerages held by his father, who swore allegiance and sat as a peer of the United Kingdom in the House of Lords by hereditary right; whether the Duke of Albany has ever divested himself of his British nationality and, if so, how or when; and whether, having regard to the fact that the Duke of Albany is in arms with the enemies of the British Empire against the Sovereign of this Empire, and guilty of high treason, any and, if so, what steps will be taken to secure that he shall no longer retain United Kingdom peerages and titles and a seat in the House of Lords?}}</ref><ref>Bottomley asked the Prime Minister whether it is proposed to abolish the peerages of which the Dukes of Albany and Cumberland have recently been deprived; and, if not, whether the heirs of such dukes will ultimately become eligible for the assumption of the titles?</ref> Ernst August was the last [[House of Hanover|Hanoverian prince]] to hold a British royal title. His successor '''[[Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick|Ernst Augustus, Duke of Brunswick]]''' and Prince of Hanover, Prince of [[Great Britain]] and [[Ireland]], was the youngest child of [[Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover|Crown Prince Ernest Augustus]] and [[Thyra of Denmark|Princess Thyra]].<ref>Under settled practice dating to 1714, as a male-line descendant of George III, [[Prince Ernst August III of Hanover]] also held the title of Prince of Great Britain and Ireland with the style of Highness. In the Court Circular printed in ''[[The Times]]'' and in the ''London Gazette,'' he was frequently styled Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland.</ref> When Ernest's older brother Prince George died, the [[William II, German Emperor|German Emperor]] sent a message of condolence to the Duke. In response the Duke sent his only surviving son, Ernst, to thank the Emperor. In Berlin, Ernst met Emperor William II's only daughter, [[Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia|Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia]]. Ernest and Victoria Louise married in 1913. The wedding was the last great gathering of [[Europe]]an sovereigns; German Emperor and Empress, Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] of the UK, and [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]] attended. On 8 November 1918, he was forced to abdicate his throne along with the other Kaiserreich nobility. The next year, his father's British dukedom was suspended under the [[Titles Deprivation Act 1917]]. In 1947, his daughter [[Frederika of Hanover|Frederica]] became [[King of Greece|Queen of the Hellenes]] when her husband [[Paul of Greece|Prince Paul of Greece and Denmark]] succeeded as King. He died in 1953.
==Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg==
(Abolished 13 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Herzogtum Sachsen-Altenburg (Grosses).png|left|100px]]
'''[[Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]]'''
[[File:Ernst II family.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Ernst II and family]]
When Germany lost the war, all the German princes lost their titles and states. Ernst was one of the first princes to realize major changes were coming for Germany, and quickly arrived at an amicable settlement with his subjects.<ref name=nyt2>{{Cite news
| title = Prince's Wireless Plant
| newspaper = The New York Times
| date = 7 April 1914
| url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F01EEDB163AE633A25754C0A9629C946596D6CF&scp=2&sq=Ernst+II%2C+Duke+of+Saxe-Altenburg+&st=p
| access-date = <!-----16 January 2010----->}}</ref> He was forced to abdicate the government of the duchy on 13 November 1918, and spent the rest of his life like a private citizen. On 1 May 1937, Ernst joined the Nazi party<ref>[[Ernst Klee]]: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, S.505.</ref> Ernst became the only former reigning German prince who accepted [[German Democratic Republic]] citizenship after World War II, refusing an offer to leave his beloved [[Schloß Fröhliche Wiederkunft]] and relocate to the British occupation zone. The Schloß had been confiscated by the Soviet occupiers, but Ernst had been granted free use of it until his death. In March 1954, with the death of [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], he became the last survivor of the German princes who had reigned until 1918. One year later, on 22 March 1955, he died at his Schloß.
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|  NSDAP – 4868932||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]]||align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.png|centre|70px]] Saxe-Coburg [[Altenburg]] ||[[File:Ernstii.jpg|left|70px]] Born 31 August 1871. Prince Ernst II, was only son of [[Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg|Prince Moritz]], the youngest son of [[Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]] and [[Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen|Princess Augusta]]. Ernst married [[Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe|Princess Adelaide]], a granddaughter of [[George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe|Prince George William]]. Prince Ernst became the only former reigning prince who accepted [[German Democratic Republic|GDR]] citizenship after [[World War II]], refusing to relocate to the British occupation zone. In 1954, on the death of [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Charles Edward]], he became the last of the German princes who had reigned until 1918. (d. 22 November 1955).
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==Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha==
(Abolished 14 November 1918)
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! Title
! Arms – Flag
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|-
! [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0184, Karl-Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha.jpg|100px]]
| align=center|[[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Duke<br />Charles Edward]]<br />1884–1954
! [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|85px]]<br />
| align=center|[[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]<br />1826–1918<br /><br />[[Saxe-Coburg Gotha|Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha]]<br />1826–1918
! [[File:Deutsches Reich (Karte) Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha.svg|170px]]
| align=left|Spouse:<br />(1) [[Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein]]<br />
Children:<br />(1) [[Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], <br />(2) [[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Sibylla, Duchess of Västerbotten]], <br />(3) [[Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (pilot)|Prince Hubertus]], (4) [[Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Caroline Mathilde]], (5) [[Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince Friedrich Josias]]
|-
|}
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (Grosses).png|100px|left]]
{{Royal house
| surname = House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
| parent house = [[House of Wettin]]
| titles = '''[[Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]'''<br/>(1826–1918)<br/>[[Monarchy of Belgium|King of the Belgians]]<br/>(1831–present)<br/>[[List of Portuguese monarchs|King of Portugal and the Algarves]]<br/>(1837–1910)<br/>[[List of Bulgarian monarchs|Prince of Bulgaria]]<br/>(1887–1908)<br/>[[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of Great Britain and Ireland]]<br/>(1901–1917)<br/>[[List of Bulgarian monarchs|Tsar of Bulgaria]]<br/>(1908–1946)
}}
<br />
'''{{main|Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha}}'''
Charles Edward, was the last reigning [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], and the head of the [[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] until his death in 1954. A male-line grandson of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]], he was also until 1919 a [[British prince|Prince of the United Kingdom]] as the [[Duke of Albany]]. The [[Duke]] was a controversial figure in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] due to his status as Sovereign [[Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], part of the [[German Empire]], during [[World War I]]. He was [[Titles Deprivation Act 1917|deprived]] of his [[British peerage]]s, his title of Prince and ''[[Royal Highness]]'' and his [[British honours]] in 1919.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=31255|startpage=4000|date=28 March 1919|accessdate=2007-11-19}}</ref> In 1918, he was forced to abdicate his ducal throne. In World War I Charles Edward held a commission as a general in the German Army. Consequently, George V ordered his name removed from the register of the Knights of the Garter in 1915. In July 1917, he and his children had the Royal Arms insignia removed from their ''(Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)'' coats of arms, they also lost their titles of [[British prince|Prince]] and [[British princess|Princess of the United Kingdom]] and the styles ''[[His Royal Highness|Royal Highness]]'' and ''[[His Highness|Highness]]''. He retained the style Highness of a sovereign ducal house in Germany, until 18 November 1918 when a [[Workers' and Soldiers' Council of Gotha]] deposed him. On 23 November 1918, he signed a declaration relinquishing his rights to the throne.
In 1977, [[Ottfried Neubecker]], Director of the German General Rolls of Arms and of the Board of the International Academy of Heraldry, with the cooperation of [[J.P. Brooke-Little]] from the College of Arms, published "A Little Brown Book," later reprinted in 1988/89/97 as " Heraldry. Sources, Symbols and Meaning". ({{ISBN|0-316-64141-3}}). On page 96, Neubecker stated that; ''"The reigning royal family in Great Britain goes back to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, husband of Queen Victoria. Our summary of the family tree covers all those descended in the male line from Queen Victoria. As the princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha were excluded from the British royal family in 1893, the labels chosen independently by them were not recognized in England.'' (Also), ''on 17 July 1917 the name of Saxe-Coburg was changed to Windsor."''<ref>{{ISBN|0-316-64141-3}}. (A Little Brown Book. 1st published 1977. Reprinted 1988/89) Edition 1997: Heraldry. Sources, Symbols and Meaning: (pg 96). By Ottfried Neubecker, Director of the German General Rolls of Arms, on the Board of the International Academy of Heraldry. (With contributions by J.P. Brooke-Little. College of Arms. London.)</ref> By warrant of Sep. 12, 1917 and subsequent Order in Council of 1919, George V removed the inescutcheon of Saxony from the arms of all descendants of the Prince Consort.<ref>(Philip Thomas, Burke's Peerage 1963).</ref>
Of George's 29 first-cousins on his father's side, 19 were German, the rest half-German; while on his mother's side, of the 31 first-cousins, six were German and 25 half-German.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
In 1919, most, if not all of these Saxe-Coburg Gotha princes lost their titles and royal status, in accordance with the Weimar Constitution, which abolished their German monarchy. Although according to Neubecker; ''the princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha {{citation needed span|were excluded from the British royal family in '''1893'''|date=May 2022}}, the labels chosen independently by them were not recognized in England.''<ref name="Neubecker">Neubecker</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2017}} Following the successions to the British throne of two such ''(Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)'' princes; as king Edward VII, and king George V, {{Citation needed span|the 1893 ''(Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)'' exclusions of the British branch were finally enacted in '''1919''', at the end of WWI, shortly prior to the Weimar exclusions.|date=May 2022}}
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|+ [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|15px]] {{Citation needed span|Saxe Coburg-Gotha exclusions from the British monarchy in 1893, and 1919.|date=May 2022}} [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|15px]]
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| align=center bgcolor="#FFDEAD" colspan=20 | '''Descendants of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Consort, Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha]]'''<br />who were excluded from the British Royal Family in 1919.
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! Saxe-<br />Coburg<br />Gotha<ref>Until George V's warrant of 1917, all arms of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]]'s British royal descendants, bore an inescutcheon for Saxony. [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/cadency.htm Heraldica – British Royalty Cadency]</ref>
! colspan=15 | {{pad|1.85em}}LABEL <ref name="Neubecker"/>{{page needed|date=November 2017}} <ref>Velde</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2017}}<br />[[File:Lambel.svg|150px]]
! UK Arms
! Notes
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| align=center| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0184, Karl-Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha.jpg|50px]]
| [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Charles Edward of Albany]]<br />(1884–1954)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Leopold, Duke of Albany.svg|50px]]
| Charles used the arms of his father [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany|1st Duke of Albany]]; the son of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]].
|-
| align=center|
| [[Prince Arthur of Connaught]]<br />(1883–1938)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Arthur of Connaught 1901-1917.svg|50px]]
| Third son of Prince Albert
|-
| [[File:Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.jpg|50px]]
| [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]]<br />(1850–1942)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, until 1917.svg|50px]]
| Arms of [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn|Edward Duke of Kent & Strathearn]] (1767–1820), son of George III, the father of [[Queen Victoria]]
|-
| align=center |[[File:Princess Helena 1910 colour.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Helena of the United Kingdom]]<br />(1846–1923) Later: [[Schleswig-Holstein|Princess of Schleswig-Holstein]].
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.svg|50px]]
| Arms of [[Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth]] (1770–1840), daughter of [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]]
|-
| [[File:Princess Louise Laszlo.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll]]<br />(1848–1939)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red-square.gif|10px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red-square.gif|10px]]
| [[File:Arms of Louise, Duchess of Argyll.svg|50px]]
| Arms of [[Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh|Mary Duchess of Gloucester & Edinburgh]] (1776–1857), daughter of George III
|-
| [[File:Laszlo - Princess Henry of Battenberg.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom]]<br />(1857–1944) Later: Countess of [[House of Battenberg|Battenberg]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg.svg|50px]]
| Arms of [[Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom|Sophia]] (1777–1848), daughter of George III
|-
| [[File:Louise Princess Royal.jpg|50px]]
| [[Louise, Princess Royal]]<br />(1867–1931) Later: [[Duchess of Fife]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Thistle (Flag of Montreal).svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Thistle (Flag of Montreal).svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Louise, Duchess of Fife.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]] and [[Alexandra of Denmark]], sister of [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]
|-
| [[File:Pss Victoria of UK colour.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom]]<br />(1868–1935)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Victoria of Wales.svg|50px]]
| Second daughter of Edward VII; the younger sister of George V.
|-
| [[File:1869 Maud.jpg|50px]]
| [[Maud of Wales]]<br />(1869–1938) Later: Queen of Norway
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Maud of Wales.svg|50px]]
| Youngest daughter of Edward VII; younger sister of George V.
|-
| align=center| [[File:Queen Mary of Romania 2.jpg|50px]]
| [[Marie of Romania| Marie of Romania<br />(of Edinburgh)]]<br />(1875–1938) Later: [[Queen of Romania]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heraldique Rose.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Marie of Edinburgh Arms.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|-
| align=center| [[File:Vitoria Melita.JPG|50px]]
| [[Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha<br />(of Edinburgh)]]<br />(1876–1936)<br />Later: Grand-duchess of [[Hesse]], later Grand-duchess of [[Russia]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Princess Victoria Melita Arms.svg|50px]]
| Label currently used by [[Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy]], daughter of [[Prince George, Duke of Kent]]
|-
| align=center| [[File:Princess Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (of Edinburgh)]] (1878–1942)<br />Later: Princess of [[Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Alexandra of Edinburgh Arms.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
|-
| align=center| [[File:Margaret of Connaught.png|50px]]
| [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]]<br />(1882–1920) Later: [[Crown princess of Sweden]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Shamrock (Flag of Montreal).svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Shamrock (Flag of Montreal).svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Margaret of Connaught Arms.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught]] and [[Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia]]
|-
| align=center| [[File:Alice, HRH Countess of Athlone.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone]]<br />(1883–1966)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Heart*.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Alice of Albany Arms.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany]], the youngest son of Prince Albert
|-
| align=center| [[File:Beatriceedinburgh1884.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha<br />(of Edinburgh)]]<br />(1884–1966) Later: [[Duchess of Galliera]]
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Anchor pictogram.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Beatrice Duchess of Galliera Arms.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|-
| align=center| [[File:Princess Patricia of Connaught.jpg|50px]]
| [[Princess Patricia of Connaught]]<br />(1886–1974) Later: Lady Ramsay
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=3 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Patricia of Connaught Arms.svg|50px]]
| Daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
|-
| align=center| [[File:Princess Royal Mary.jpg|50px]]
| [[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood]]<br />(1897–1965)
| align=center| [[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| align=center bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan=5 | [[File:Red Cross icon.svg|30px]]
| [[File:Arms of Mary, the Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood.svg|50px]]
| Arms of [[Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange]] (1709–1759), (daughter of George II), the spouse of [[William IV, Prince of Orange]],
|-
|}
In 1932, Charles Edward took part in the creation of the [[Harzburg Front]], through which the [[German National People's Party]] became associated with the Nazi Party. Charles Edward was a member of the ([[NSDAP]]), and ''formally'' joined the [[Nazi Party]] in 1935, becoming a member of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA (Brownshirts)]], rising to rank of ''[[Obergruppenführer]]''. ''Obergruppenführer'', was the highest commissioned [[SS rank|''SS'' rank]], inferior only to ''[[Reichsführer-SS]]'' ([[Heinrich Himmler]]). Charles Edward held the same rank as [[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont]], [[Rudolf Hess]], [[Joachim von Ribbentrop|von Ribbentrop]], [[Martin Bormann]], and [[Reinhard Heydrich]]. Charles Edward was also a member of the [[Reichstag (Nazi Germany)|Reichstag]] representing the [[Nazi Party]]. In 1936, [[Adolf Hitler]] sent Charles Edward to Britain as president of the [[Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft|Anglo-German Friendship Society]]. His mission was to improve [[Anglo-German relations]] and to explore the possibility of a pact between the two countries. He sent Hitler encouraging reports about the strength of pro-German sentiment among the British aristocracy. After the [[Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII|Abdication Crisis]], he played host to the [[Duke of Windsor|Duke and Duchess of Windsor]], during their private tour of Germany in 1937.
<br />
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0309-506, Eröffnung des Deutsch-Polnischen Instituts.jpg|thumb|260px|left|Charles Edward between [[Hermann Göring]] and [[Joseph Goebbels]], 26 February 1935]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2007-1022-506, Italien, deutsche Frontkämpfer in Rom.jpg|thumb|260px|Charles Edward with Mussolini, 19 March 1938]]
'''[[Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]''', was a German aristocrat, and the [[Regent]] of the Duchy of [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] during the minority of his wife's cousin, [[Karl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Duke Charles Edward]], from 1900 to 1905. Ernst was the oldest of three children, and the only son, of [[Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]], and [[Princess Leopoldine of Baden]]. He married Queen Victoria's granddaughter, [[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh]], daughter of [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|The Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh]] and [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia|Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna]]. After [[Adolf Hitler]] came to power in 1933, Ernst joined his son [[Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg|Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe]] (who had already entered in 1931) in the [[Nazi Party]].<ref>{{in lang|de}} Ernst Klee, ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945'' [The Cultural Dictionary of the Third Reich: Who was What Before and After 1945] ([[Frankfurt am Main]]: S. Fischer, 2007), p. 261.</ref> Prince Gottfried, the son of [[Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg|Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe]] married Princess Margarita, who was one of the sisters of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], the consort of [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]].
'''[[Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]''' ''(Hohenlohe)'' joined the [[Nazi Party]], in 1937, together with several of her children.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=382}}
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! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Dukes, Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 300354||Joined: 1 September 1930|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] ||align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] [[Saxe Coburg]]. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ||Born 4 May 1900. Prince Rainer was son of [[Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince August Leopold]] and his wife [[Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria]]. At the time of his birth the House of Wettin ruled the [[Kingdom of Saxony]] and the [[Ernestine duchies]] in Germany, as well as the kingdoms of [[Belgium]], [[Portugal]], [[Bulgaria]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. In line of succession to the Coburg throne, he possessed one of the largest fortunes in Hungary, one of the constituent realms within the [[Habsburg Empire]], whose reigns ended, along with that of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1918.
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| NSDAP – 1037966||Joined: 1 April 1932||[[File:Balkenkreuz.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] ||align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ||[[File:Langhammer - Johann Leopold von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha - Verlag Albert Horn 310.jpg|left|70px]] Born 2 August 1906. Prince Johann Leopold was the eldest son of [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] and [[Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein|Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]].
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| NSDAP – 2560843||Joined: 1 May 1933||[[File:Oberste SA Führung.svg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:SA-Logo.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] ||align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] Saxe-Coburg and Gotha || {{main|Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha}}[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0184, Karl-Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha.jpg|70px|left]] Born 19 July 1884. Charles Edward formally joined the Nazi Party in 1933, and [[Sturmabteilung|''SA'' (Brownshirts)]], rising to the rank of ''[[Obergruppenführer]]''. He also served as a member of the Reichstag representing the [[Nazi Party]] from 1937 to 1945. In 1936, [[Adolf Hitler]] sent Charles Edward to Britain as president of the [[Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft|Anglo-German Friendship Society]]. His mission was to improve [[Anglo-German relations]] and to explore the possibility of a pact between the two countries. his three sons served in the ''[[Wehrmacht]]''.
|-
| NSDAP – 7213588||Joined: 1 October 1939||[[File:Balkenkreuz.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (pilot)|Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]||align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ||[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R14328, Kinder des Herzogs v. Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha.jpg|left|70px]] Born 24 August 1909. Prince Hubertus was the son of, [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Charles Edward]], and a great-grandson of [[Queen Victoria]]. Hubertus, thus, was also a [[British prince|Prince of the United Kingdom]], with the style ''[[His Highness]]''. In 1917, [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] passed letters patent removing the title of Prince and the style ''Highness'' from his relatives, depriving Hubertus of his British titles. Hubertus joined the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)]], and saw action in the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] during [[World War II]]. He was [[killed in action]] in 1943, in [[Ukraine]].
|}
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|+ Unknown ? Saxe-Coburg and Gotha nobility
|-
! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]] ''[[Unknown ?]]'' Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Dukes, Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
|-
|NSDAP – 196633||Joined: 15 May 1930||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] ||Born 25 February 1907. Prince Ernst was the son of [[Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince August Leopold]] ''(aka [[Emperor of Brazil|Prince of the Empire of Brazil]])'' and [[Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria]]. Prince Augusts' wife was the daughter of [[Archduke Karl Salvator, Prince of Tuscany|Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany]], and his wife [[Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1844–1899)|Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]]. Prince Ernst married morganatically to Irmgard Röll. This marriage was childless. (d. 9 June 1978).
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| NSDAP – 1037967||Joined: 1 April 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Hereditary Princess Foedora of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] || align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] Saxe-Coburg and Gotha || Born 7 July 1905. Princess Feodora Freiin von der Horst (1905–1991),{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} was [[Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince Johann Leopold]]'s first wife.
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| NSDAP – 1560711||Joined: 1 March 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Irmgard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ||{{Main|Krupp}} Born 27 January 1912. Princess Irmgard was the daughter of [[Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach]] and [[Bertha Krupp]]. Gustav Krupp was "a super Nazi". Krupp was an avowed [[monarchist]], and was persuaded the NASDP could end the Republic and restore the [[Wilhelm II|Kaiser]] and the old elites for renewed German expansion. Bertha Krupp never liked Hitler and she pleaded illness when he came on an official tour in 1934. Her daughter Irmgard acted as hostess.<ref name="Manchester, William 1968">Manchester, William. ''The Arms of Krupp''. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1968.</ref> Krupp secretly built [[artillery]] in [[Sweden]], and built [[submarine pen]]s in the [[Netherlands]]. In the 1930s, it also manufactured [[tank]]s and other [[war materials]] for [[Hitler]]. Krupp was a member of the [[Prussian State Council]] from 1921 to 1933. Gustav Krupp was named as a [[war criminal]] at the 1945 [[Nuremberg Trials]].
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| NSDAP – 1453322||Joined: 7 March 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Leopoldine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] || align="center" | [[File:Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha.png|centre|60px]] Sax-Coburg and Gotha || Born 13 May 1905. Prince Leopoldine Gonzaga, was son of [[Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince August Leopold]]. (d. 24 December 1978).
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==Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen==
(Abolished 10 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen-Hildburghausen (Grosses).png|100px|left]]
'''[[Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]]'''
Bernhard assumed the throne of the [[Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen]] after the death of his father in 1914. When Germany lost the war, all the German princes lost their titles and states. Bernhard was forced to abdicate as duke on 10 November 1918, and spent the rest of his life in his former country as a private citizen. His wife [[Princess Charlotte of Prussia]] was the second child of Prince [[Frederick III, German Emperor|Frederick of Prussia]] and [[Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick|Princess Victoria]]. Charlotte was the eldest granddaughter of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] and [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]]. She was well loved by her paternal grandparents King [[Wilhelm I]] and [[Augusta of Saxe-Weimar|Queen Augusta]], and close to her brother [[Wilhelm II]].
'''[[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]]''' was the head of the house of [[Saxe-Meiningen]] from 1941 until his death. {{Citation needed span|A nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II,|date=May 2022}}<ref name=nyt>{{cite news |title=Kaiser's Nephew a Petty Judge |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=103 |date=1922-10-29 }}</ref> Georg was the eldest son of [[Prince Frederick Johann of Saxe-Meiningen]] (1861–1914) and [[Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld]] (1870–1948). His uncle [[Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen|Bernhard III]] abdicated on 10 November 1918 following the [[German Revolution]]. In 1933, he joined the [[Nazi Party]]. Georg died in the Russian [[prisoner of war]] camp in Northern [[Russia]]. His heir was his second and only surviving son Prince Frederick Alfred who renounced the succession, being a monk in 1953, allowing it to pass to his uncle [[Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen|Bernhard]].
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! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|30px]]Saxe-Meiningen Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|30px]]
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| NSDAP – 898842||Joined: 1 March 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]] ||align="center" | [[File:Blason Duché de Saxe-Meiningen.svg|centre|70px]]Saxe-Coburg Meiningen ||Born 30 June 1901. Prince Bernhard was the third son of [[Prince Frederick Johann of Saxe-Meiningen|Prince Frederick Johann]] and [[Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld|Countess Adelaide]]. Bernhard and his first wife were declared guilty of a [[Nazi]] conspiracy against [[Austria]] in 1933; he was sentenced to six weeks in prison. After intervention of the German envoy, he was released from prison and they escaped to Italy. Three weeks later, he was arrested while trying to return to his castle of [[Pitzelstaetten]].<ref>{{cite news |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70715F93F5516738DDDA80994DA415B838FF1D3&scp=2&sq=nazi%20Saxe-Meiningen&st=cse
|title= Nazi Prince and Princess Flee Austria, Abusing Freedom German Envoy Obtained|date= 11 December 1933|newspaper= The New York Times|access-date=23 October 2009 | first=Wireless | last=To}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0F11FE3559177A93C3A9178AD85F408385F9&scp=1&sq=nazi%20Saxe-Meiningen&st=cse
|title= Austrians Retake Pringe Who Fled; Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen, Nazi, Is Captured Trying to Re-enter His Castle.|date= 1 January 1934|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=23 October 2009}}</ref> He died in 1984.
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| NSDAP – 2594794||Joined: 1 May 1933|| || align="center" | [[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]]||align="center" |  [[File:Blason Duché de Saxe-Meiningen.svg|centre|70px]]Saxe-Coburg Meiningen ||[[File:GEORGSaxeMeiningen.jpg|70px|left]] Born 11 October 1892. Prince Georg the eldest son of [[Prince Frederick Johann of Saxe-Meiningen]] (1861–1914) and [[Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld]] (1870–1948). His father was a son of [[Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]]. After the death of his uncle [[Prince Ernst Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen|Ernst]] in 1941, Georg succeeded to the headship of the [[House of Saxe-Meiningen]] and assumed the title of Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and style ''Georg III''. Prince Georg died in the Russian [[prisoner of war]] camp near [[Cherepovets]] in Northern [[Russia]], in 1946.
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|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Unknown ? Saxe-Meiningen nobility
|-
! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|30px]]Saxe-Meiningen Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|30px]]
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| NSDAP – 525333||Joined: 1 March 1931|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Clara of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Blason Duché de Saxe-Meiningen.svg|centre|70px]]Saxe-Coburg [[Meiningen]] ||Born 31 May 1895
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| NSDAP – 898841||Joined: 1 March 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Princess B. Margot of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen]] || align="center" | [[File:Blason Duché de Saxe-Meiningen.svg|centre|70px]] Saxe-Coburg Meiningen || Born 22 November 1911
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|}
==Principality of Lippe==
(Abolished 12 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Fürstentum Lippe.png|100px|left]]
'''[[Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe]]'''
Prince Leopold IV, was forced to renounce the throne on 12 November 1918. Following the end of his rule, Lippe became a [[Free state (polity)|Free state]] in the new [[Weimar Republic]]. All three of his sons by his first wife became members of the party. His eldest son [[Prince Ernst]] is reported to have been the first German prince to join the party when he signed up in May 1928.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=98}} When Leopold died in [[Detmold]] his three eldest sons were all disinherited and his youngest son [[Armin, Prince of Lippe]] became head of the house.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H1215-503-009, Walther Darré bei einer Kundgebung.jpg|thumb|230px|Darré at Reich Food, before 3000 Lower Saxony people, 13 December 1937.]]
'''[[Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe]]''' was the daughter of [[Count Rudolf of Lippe-Biesterfeld|Count Rudolph]] and [[Princess Luise of Ardeck]]. In 1920, Marie Adelheid married [[Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz|Prince Heinrich XXXII]],<ref name=G65/> who had once been close to succeeding [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Queen Wilhelmina]] to the Dutch throne. They divorced in 1921.<ref name=G65>Gossman, p. 65.</ref> Marie Adelheid married thirdly to Hanno Konopath, a Nazi government official in 1927.<ref name=G65/> This marriage created some important contacts for her in the German regime.<ref name=G65/>
Like the Hesse family, the Lippe dynasty joined the Nazi party in great numbers (ultimately eighteen members would eventually join).{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=266}} Some German states provided a proportionally higher number of SS officers, including Hesse-Nassau and Lippe, Marie Adelheid's birthplace.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=266}} Marie Adelheid developed strong connections with the Nazi regime, and became a leading socialite during that time.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=266}} In 1921, Marie Adelheid became employed as an aide to the Nazi Minister of Food and Agriculture, [[Richard Walther Darré]] (a friend of her third husband's).<ref>Gossman, pp. 1–2 and 65.</ref> Her cousin [[Ernst, Prince of Lippe]] (son of [[Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe]]) was also employed under Darré.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=266}} Marie Adelheid devoted her writing talent to promoting Nazi ideals, in particular those of Darré.<ref name=G2>Gossman, p. 2.</ref> Darré's views suffered as new plans were produced by Himmler and Göring.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=267}} As Darré's influence declined, so did that of Marie Adelheid and her cousin.
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! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Lippe Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 88835||Joined: 1 May 1928||[[File:SS-Sturmbannfuehrer,collar.png|70px]]<br /><br /><br />[[File:Flag Schutzstaffel.svg|70px]]||align="center" | [[Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Lippe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|centre|60px]]<br/><br/>[[Lippe]] ||[[File:Lippe Ernst Erbprinz zur.jpg|80px|left]]Born 12 June 1902. Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Lippe (1902–1987) married first (1924) Charlotte Ricken (1900–1974). He married secondly (1937) Herta-Elise Weiland (1911–1970). Prince Ernst was the first son of [[Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe]], all three of his sons by his first wife became members of the party. His eldest son the Hereditary Prince Ernst is reported to have been the first German prince to join the party when he signed up in May 1928.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=98}}
In 1938 Prince Ernst worked with, and became second Adjutant to [[Walter Darré]], the "[[Reich Peasant Leader]]", at the Nazi [[Minister of Agriculture]]. In 1939 he was one of three main aides to the Minister, in his functions as Reich Minister, and [[Reichsleiter]] of the Nazi Party. Prince Ernst actively supported Darré's activity as Reichsleiter of the NSDAP, whilst also being Darré's adjutant as [[Reich Farm]] Leader, Prince Ernst's official residence was in the [[Reich Office of Agricultural Policy]]. Prince Ernst's main task as a party aide, was to act as a liaison between the Reich Office, for country people in [[Munich]] and in [[Berlin]]. As an adjutant, Prince Ernst was a member of the ''SS'' (SS-Nr. 314 184), with the honorary rank of ''[[SS-Sturmbannführer]]''. He is listed in the [[Race and Settlement]] Main Office. Prince Ernst testified at the [[Nuremberg Trials]].
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| NSDAP – 2583009||Joined: 1 March 1933||[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||{{main|Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld}} [[File:Prins Bernhard voor de microfoon in 1942.jpg|left|120px]] Born 29 June 1911. Prince Bernhard (1911–2004), later [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]], was the [[prince consort|husband]] of [[Juliana of the Netherlands|Queen Juliana of the Netherlands]] and father of the [[Queen of the Netherlands]], [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Princess Beatrix]]. After [[WWI]], Bernhard's family lost their German [[Principality]]. Prince Bernhard joined the [[Nazi Party]], and the [[Sturmabteilung]] (SA), which he left in 1934.<ref>{{cite news|last=Waterfield|first=Bruno|title=Dutch Prince Bernhard 'was member of Nazi party'|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/7377402/Dutch-Prince-Bernhard-was-member-of-Nazi-party.html|access-date=13 June 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=5 March 2010|location=London}}</ref> The Prince later denied that he had belonged to ''SA'', to the ''Reiter-[[SS]]'' (''SS'' Cavalry Corps), and to the [[National Socialist Motor Corps|NSKK]]. During WWII, Prince Bernhard was part of the London-based Allied war planning councils and saw active service as a [[Wing Commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] ([[RAF]]) flying both fighter and bomber planes into combat. He was a Dutch [[General]] and [[Commander-in-chief|Supreme Commander]] of the Dutch Armed forces, involved in negotiating the terms of surrender of the German Army in the [[Netherlands]]. After the War he was made Honorary [[Air Marshal]] of the [[RAF]] by [[Queen Elizabeth II]]. In England, Prince Bernhard asked to work in [[British Intelligence]] but the War Admiralty, and later [[General Eisenhower]]'s Allied Command offices, did not trust him enough to allow him access to intelligence information. On the recommendation of Bernhard's friend [[King George VI]], after being personally screened by intelligence officer [[Ian Fleming]] at the behest of [[Churchill]], he was later given work in the Allied War Planning Councils.
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| NSDAP – 5854038||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" |  [[Prince Ernst-Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld]]||align="center" |  [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe-Biesterfeld ||[[File:Bernhard en Aschwin zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1966).jpg|left|70px]]Born 13 June 1914. Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the younger brother of [[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]]. When [[Adolf Hitler]] came to power, Aschwin openly supported the Nazis and become a ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' officer. Prince Bernhard is said to have cut off communications with Nazi supporters, including his brother.
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Unknown ? Lippe nobility
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! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Lippe Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 292948||Joined: 1 March 1930|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Kurt of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 5 March 1855. Prince Kurt (1855–1934) married (I) Sophie von Klengel (1857–1945) married (II) Johanna Krischke (1894–1987) 1. Marie Sophie (1886–1946) 2. Karl Christian (1889–1942).
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| NSDAP – 461527||Joined: 1 February 1931|| ||align="center" |  [[Prince Karl Christian Joachim of Lippe]]|| align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 21 October 1889.
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| NSDAP – 479952||Joined: 1 March 1931|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Ludwig of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 27 September 1909.
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| NSDAP – 565619||Joined: 1 June 1931|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Sophie of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 9 April 1857.
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| NSDAP – 621441||Joined: 1 September 1931|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Johanna of Lippe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 15 June 1894.
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| NSDAP – 674238||Joined: 1 October 1931|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Hedwig-Maria of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe|| 29 December 1903.
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| NSDAP – 868756||Joined: 1 January 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Count Otto of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 4 July 1904.
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| NSDAP – 891529||Joined: 1 February 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Leopold Barnard of Lippe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 19 May 1904. Prince Leopold Bernhard (1904–1965), was the second son of [[Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe]].
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| NSDAP – 1334759||Joined: 1 October 1932|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Elisabeth of Lippe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 27 October 1900.
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| v 5164799||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Christian of Lippe-Biesterfeld]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe-Biesterfeld
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| v 4533031||Joined: 1 May 1937|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Ferdinand of Lippe-Weissenfeld]] ||align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe-Weissenfeld ||Born 16 July 1903. Prince Carl Franz Ferdinand of Lippe-Weissenfeld was the son of [[Clemens Prince of Lippe-Weissenfeld]] and [[Friederike Baronin von Carolowitz]]. He married [[Dorothea Princess von Schönburg-Waldenburg]]. He died on 26 September 1939 at age 36 at near Lublin, Poland, killed in action.
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| NSDAP – 6153171||Joined: 1 May 1938|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Franziska of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe ||Born 14 December 1902.
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| NSDAP – 7218152||Joined: 1 October 1939|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Kurt-Bernhard of Lippe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe-Biesterfeld ||Born 4 July 1901.
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| NSDAP – 4320380||Joined: ''withheld''|| ||align="center" | [[Count Rolf of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe|| Born 4 January 1912.
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| NSDAP – 3723952||Joined: ''withheld''|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Walther of Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:COA family de Herren zur Lippe.svg|60px]]Lippe||Born 7 April 1878.
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|}
==Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe==
(Abolished 15 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Fürstentum Schaumburg-Lippe.png|100px|left]]
'''[[Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]]'''
Adolph succeeded his father as Prince in 1911, until he was forced to abdicate on 15 November 1918. Following the German revolution: the Principality became the [[Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe]]. Adolf married [[Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus]], they were both killed in a plane crash in [[Mexico]] in 1936, in a [[Controlled flight into terrain|controlled flight]] into the side of a volcano. He was succeeded as head of the House of [[Schaumburg-Lippe]] by his brother [[Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe|Wolrad]].
{{main|Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe}}
Prince Adolph's brother '''[[Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe|Prince Friedrich Christian]]''', was son of [[Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe|Georg]], the reigning Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and [[Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg|Princess Marie Anne]]. Friedrich's brother [[Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe|Adolf II]] was the "last German prince forced to abdicate.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=58}} After WWI, Friedrich Christian was an ardent Nazi Party supporter, and worked vigorously to gain noble and royal support for it, and eventually became an upper privy councillor and [[adjutant]] to Propaganda Minister [[Joseph Goebbels]]. In 1939, Friedrich Christian was asked to become [[King of Iceland]] by Icelanders sympathetic to the Nazi party, but refused due to the opposition of Foreign Minister [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]. Prince Friedrich felt disillusioned by the abdication of [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Emperor Wilhelm II]], and even more unhappy over the "cowardly abdications" of the German princes in 1918.<ref name=G68>{{cite book|first=Lionel|last=Gossman|title=Brownshirt Princess: A Study of the "Nazi Conscience"|publisher=OpenBook Publishers|location=Cambridge|year=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pjQx3dRgxnwC|quote=adelheid.|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pjQx3dRgxnwC/page/n80 68]}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2017|reason=G68 is undefined}} The prince wished for a restoration of the monarchy, he believed that [[Adolf Hitler]] was also in tandem with these views, writing in his diary, "Hitler was in principle for the monarchy, but not for the continuation of that which, in his opinion, had failed totally."<ref name=G68/> The prince "liked to think the "National Socialists as true heirs of the old nobility."<ref name=G69>Gossman, p. 69.</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2017|reason=G69 is undefined}}
The House of [[Schaumburg-Lippe]] had ten members in the Nazi party.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=100}} Hitler wanted these high-ranking members of society for propaganda reasons – the more who joined, the more socially acceptable his new regime would be.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|pp=5-6}} Like Friedrich and his brother [[Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe|Prince Wolrad]], Hitler appointed many of these new members to the Sturmabteilung as stormtroopers.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=111}} Hitler made various assurances to its members, leading them to believe he intended to restore the monarchy.<ref name=S31>{{cite book|first=David|last=Schoenbaum|title=Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.|location=New York|year=1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wNCSxrUlyMC&q=friedrich+christian+prince+nazi+Schaumburg-Lippe&pg=PA31|isbn=9780393315547|page=31}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=November 2017|reason=S31 is undefined}}
Friedrich Christian was a speaker for the Nazi Party in 1929, and worked vigorously to gain the support of other noble families behind Hitler.<ref name=G68/><ref name=S31/>{{full citation needed|date=November 2017|reason=S31 is undefined}} He worked closely with Propaganda Minister [[Joseph Goebbels.]]{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|pp=44, 99}}> Goebbels gave him a position in the newly created Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=137}} By April 1933, Friedrich Christian was both an upper privy councillor and Goebbels' adjutant.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=137}} That year, the prince arranged for the Minister's involvement in the Berlin University book burning.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=137}} As evident from photographs and diaries during that time, Hitler and Goebbels both held Friedrich Christian in high esteem.<ref name=G68/> As WWII continued with German military defeats, Hitler became more suspicious of royal and noble families, questioning their loyalties.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|pp=6-7}} By 1943, he secretly ordered all Nazi bureaucracies to compile a record of members, and then personally decided if they were to be "retired" or allowed to stay.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=284}} Most of the princes were unwillingly booted out of the party as a result.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=7}} Goebbels went to Hitler to protect Friedrich Christian, who obtained a special waiver, for the prince's "future deployment in the Propaganda Ministry".
In 1947, four German princes Friedrich Christian, [[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia]], [[Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse|Prince Philipp of Hesse]], and [[Hereditary Prince Ernst of Lippe]], were brought under arrest to the war crimes jail at [[Nuremberg]] in order to appear as witnesses in a portion of the 16 trials of high-ranking Nazi criminals.<ref name=tit1>{{Cite news
| title = German Princes To Testify
| newspaper = [[The Irish Times]]
| date = 12 July 1947
| access-date = <!-----28 October 2010----->}}</ref> Viewed as an "old-line party member" who made propaganda excursions to many foreign countries on Goebbels' behalf, Friedrich Christian was the last of the four to testify.<ref name=tit1/>
{| class="wikitable"
! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Schaumburg-Lippe Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 95146||Joined: 1 August 1928||[[File:Standarte Standartenführer NSFK.svg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe]]||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|centre|60px]] [[Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe|Schaumburg-Lippe]]|| [[File:Pfriedrichchristiansl.jpg|left|80px]] '''{{main|Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe}}''' Friedrich was an ardent Nazi Party supporter, who worked to gain royal support for them, becoming an upper privy councillor and [[adjutant]] to Propaganda Minister [[Joseph Goebbels]]. In 1939, Friedrich was asked to become [[King of Iceland]] by Icelanders sympathetic to the Nazi party, but refused due to the opposition of [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]. ''SA-Standartenführer''. (SA-Standard leader (regiment sized unit)).
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| NSDAP – 3681098||Joined: 1 August 1935||[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]] ||align="center" |  [[Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]]Schaumburg-Lippe ||[[File:WolradSchaumburgLippe.jpg|left|80px]] Wolrad married his second cousin [[Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (1903–1983). He was the brother of ''[[Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]]'', Princes Friedrich Christian and Stephan, the four sons of [[Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]].
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| NSDAP – 3681097||Joined: 1 October 1935||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe]] ||align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]] Schaumburg-Lippe || Princess Bathildis (1903–1983), married Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. Bathildis was the only daughter of [[Prince Albert of Schaumburg-Lippe]] and [[Duchess Elsa of Württemberg]].
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Unknown ? Schaumburg-Lippe nobility
|-
! NSDAP[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]''[[Unknown ?|Unknown?]]'' Schaumburg-Lippe nobility [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 638702||Joined: 1 May 1938 ||[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]]  || align="center" | [[Prince Albrecht of Schaumburg-Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]]Schaumburg-Lippe ||
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| NSDAP – 3018293||Joined: 1 May 1933 ||[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]]  ||align="center" |  [[Prince Max of Schaumburg-Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]]Schaumburg-Lippe ||Prince Max of Schaumburg-Lippe (28 March 1898 – 4 February 1974), married in 1933 to [[Princess Helga-Lee of Schaumburg-Lippe]], no issue.
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| NSDAP – 7965863||Joined: 1 May 1938||[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]] ||align="center" |  [[Prince Walburgis of Schaumburg-Lippe]] ||align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]] Schaumburg-Lippe || Prince Walbergis joined on the same day as Prince Franz Joseph.
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| NSDAP – 6189085||Joined: 1 May 1938||[[File:SA-Logo.svg|centre|60px]]||align="center" |  [[Franz Joseph Adolph Ernst of Schaumburg-Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]]Schaumburg-Lippe || [[Prince Franz Josef of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (1 September 1899 – 7 July 1963), married in 1959 to Maria Theresia Peschel. His mother [[Duchess Elsa of Württemberg]]; (1876–1936) was a daughter of [[Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846–1877)|Duke Eugen of Württemberg]] and [[Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia]]. She married [[Prince Albert of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (1869–1942). Her four children were Prince Franz Josef, Prince Max, Prince Alexander and Princess Bathildis.
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| NSDAP –144005 ||Joined: 16 August 1929||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Alexandra of Schaumburg-Lippe]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]]Schaumburg-Lippe ||'''''D.o.b. withheld'''''
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| NSDAP – 309345||Joined: 1 October 1930||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Ingerborg-Alice of Schaumburg-Lippe]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of Schaumburg-Lippe.png|60px]]Schaumburg-Lippe ||'''''D.o.b. withheld'''''
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==Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont==
(Abolished 13 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Coat of Arms of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont.svg|left|100px]]
'''[[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]'''
[[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] (Friedrich Adolf Hermann Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont; 20 January 1865 – 26 May 1946) was the last reigning [[Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] from 12 May 1893 to 13 November 1918.
'''[[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]''' was the [[heir apparent]] to [[Waldeck and Pyrmont]]. At the end of WWI, his family lost their Principality as Waldeck and Pyrmont became a [[Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont|Free State]] in the new [[Weimar Republic]].
On 1 November 1929, Josias joined [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Nazi Party]], becoming a member of the [[SS]] in 1930. He was immediately appointed [[adjutant]] to [[Sepp Dietrich]] (a leading member of the SS), before becoming [[Heinrich Himmler]]'s Adjutant and staff chief in September 1930.<ref name=Wistrich>{{cite book | last = Wistrich | first = Robert S. | title = Who's Who in Nazi Germany | publisher = Routledge | year = 1995 | page = 171 | isbn =0-415-26038-8 }}</ref> Waldeck-Pyrmont was elected as the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] member for [[Düsseldorf]]-West in 1933 and was promoted to the rank of SS Lieutenant General.<ref name=Wistrich/> He was promoted again in 1939, to the Higher [[SS and Police Leader]] for [[Weimar]]. In this position he had supervisory authority over [[Buchenwald concentration camp]].<ref name="Petropoulos 2006 262">{{harvnb|Petropoulos|2006|p=262}}</ref> After [[World War II]], he was sentenced to life in prison at the [[Buchenwald Trial]] (later commuted to 20 years) for his part in the "common plan" to violate the Laws and Usages of War in connection with [[prisoners of war]] held at [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], but was released after serving about three years in prison. He was the nephew of [[William II of Württemberg|William II]], [[King of Württemberg]], and [[Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont]], [[Queen Regent]] of the [[Netherlands]]. He was also a cousin of [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Wilhelmina]], [[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Queen of the Netherlands]], and [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Charles Edward, Duke of]] [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]].
Prince Josias's and his wife, [[Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg]] were the parents of [[Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]. [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Heinrich Himmler]] were his godfathers.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p= }}{{page needed|date=November 2017}} Wittekind, who served in the German Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel, succeeded as head of the [[House of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] when his father died on 30 November 1967.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|pp=265, 266}}
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! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Waldeck-Pyrmont Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 160025||Joined: 1 November 1929||[[File:SS-Obergruppenführer Collar Rank.svg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:Schutzstaffel Abzeichen.svg|60px]]<br/><br/>[[File:Ordnungspolizei flag.svg|60px]] ||align="center" | [[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]||align="center" |  [[File:Waldeck COA.gif|centre|80px]] <br/>[[Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont|Waldeck]] and Pyrmont|| {{main|Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont}}[[File:Langhammer - Josias Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont.jpg|left|80px]]Born 13 May 1896. Prince Josias was the heir apparent to the [[Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]. He joined the ''[[SS]]'' in 1930, as [[adjutant]] to [[Sepp Dietrich]], then became [[Heinrich Himmler]]'s Adjutant and staff chief.<ref name="Wistrich" /> Prince Josias was elected to the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] in 1933, and promoted to ''SS'' [[Lieutenant General]].<ref name=Wistrich/> He was promoted again in 1939, to the Higher [[SS and Police Leader]] for [[Weimar]], with supervisory authority over [[Buchenwald concentration camp]].{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=262}} [[Adolf Hitler]] appointed Josias to the [[Ordnungspolizei]] (uniformed police) in 1941. In 1942, he was High Commissioner of Police in [[Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany)|German-occupied France]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nazi Prince sent to subdue French |newspaper=The New York Times |page=3 |date= 25 April 1942 }}</ref> He was then made a General in the [[Waffen-SS]] in 1944.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p={{page needed|date=November 2017}}  }} [[File:Josias Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont.jpg|right|80px]]Josias was arrested in 1945, and sentenced to life imprisonment at the [[Buchenwald Trial]] in 1947. This was commuted to twenty years,<ref name=P255>{{harvnb|Stein|2004|p=255}}</ref> after three years he was released in 1950.<ref name=Wistrich/> He was then granted an amnesty by the [[Minister President]] of [[Hesse]] in 1953.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=266}}
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| NSDAP – 161001||Joined: 1 November 1929|| ||align="center" | Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg ||align="center" |  [[File:Waldeck COA.gif|centre|80px]]Waldeck and [[Bad Pyrmont|Pyrmont]] ||[[File:Duchessaoldenburg.jpg|left|70px]] Born 19 May 1903. Duchess Altburg married [[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Josias]], who was the eldest son of [[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Friedrich]] and [[Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe|Princess Bathildis]]. Duchess Altburg was a daughter of [[Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg|Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II]] by his second wife [[Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine]]. Like her own parents, Josias' parents had lost their titles in 1918. Prince Josias and Duchess Altberg joined NSDAP on the same day in 1929. They were amongst the earliest (4th and 5th ''royals'') as Nazi Party members, from the [[List of German monarchs in 1918|abolished Kaiserreich princedoms of 1918]].
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| NSDAP – 8562493||Joined: 1 September 1941|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Margarethe of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] ||align="center" | [[File:Waldeck COA.gif|centre|80px]] Waldeck and Pyrmont ||Born 22 May 1923. Princess Margarethe was the eldest daughter of Prince Josias and Princess Altberg. [[Princess Margarethe of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] married [[Count Franz August zu Erbach-Erbach]] (b. 1925).
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==Principality of Reuss-Gera (Younger Line)==
(Abolished 11 November 1918)<br />
[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Fürstentum Reuß jüngere Linie.png|100px|left]]
{{Citation needed span|'''[[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]]'''|date=May 2022}}
At the death of his father on 29 March 1913, Heinrich inherited the throne of the Principality, as well he continued the regency of [[Reuss Elder Line]], because of a physical and mental disability of [[Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz|Prince Heinrich XXIV]] due to an accident in his childhood. Prince Heinrich XXVII abdicated in 1918 after the [[German Revolution of 1918–19]], when all German monarchies were abolished. After the death of [[Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss Elder Line]] in 1927, the titles passed to Heinrich XXVII.
'''[[Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line]]'''
Heinrich XLV was the head of the [[Reuss (state)|House of Reuss]], and last male member of the [[Reuss-Schleiz]] branch of the [[Reuss Younger Line|Younger Line]]. Heinrich XLV was the only surviving son of [[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line|Heinrich XXVII]]. During the 1930s Heinrich XLV became a [[Nazism|Nazi]] sympathizer and member of the [[Nazi Party]].<ref>Lionel Gossman: Brownshirt Princess; A study of the "Nazi Conscience". Open Book Publishers, Cambridge 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-906924-07-2}}, S. 68</ref> In 1945, he was arrested by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] military and disappeared. In 1962, he was declared dead by a court in [[Büdingen]].
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! [[NSDAP]][[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]Reuss Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 237533|| 1 May 1930|| ||align="center" | [[Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px|centre]]Reuss ||{{main|Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld}} Born 30 August 1895. Like the Hesse family, the Lippe dynasty joined the [[Nazi party]] in great numbers (ultimately eighteen members would eventually join).{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=262}} Some German states provided a proportionally higher number of [[SS]] officers, including [[Hesse-Nassau]] and [[Lippe]], Marie Adelheid's birthplace.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=262}} As an ardent believer of the party's views, Marie Adelheid developed strong connections to the emerging [[Nazi]] regime, and became a leading socialite during that time.{{sfn|Petropoulos|2006|p=262}}
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| NSDAP – 2199219||Joined: 1 May 1933|| ||align="center" | [[Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line]]  ||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px]][[Principality of Reuss-Gera|Reuss]] || [[File:Heinrich XLV RjL.jpg|left|70px]] Born 13 May 1895. Heinrich XLV became head of the [[Reuss (state)|House of Reuss]] after the [[Reuss Younger Line|Younger]] and [[Reuss Elder Line|Elder]] Lines merged in 1927. In 1935 he adopted Prince Heinrich I Reuss of Köstritz (1910–1982), who married his niece [[Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg]]. In August 1945, he was arrested by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] military and disappeared. In 1962, he was declared dead by a court in [[Büdingen]]. His entire fortune was confiscated in 1948 by the [[Soviet Military Administration in Germany|Soviet Military Administration]], including three Castles in Gera. Heinrich XLV remained unmarried and childless.
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| NSDAP – 3603963||Joined: 1 May 1935|| ||align="center" | [[Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz]] || align="center" | [[File:Wappen Bad Köstritz.png|60px]]Reuss-Köstritz || [[File:Heinrich XXXIII RjL - Zum Besten der Kriegswaisen.jpg|left|70px]] Born 1 August 1887. Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss was the son of the [[Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz|Prince Heinrich VII Reuss of Köstritz]] and [[Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]. Through his mother, Prince Heinrich XXXIII was heir to the throne of the [[Netherlands|Kingdom of the Netherlands]] until the birth of [[Juliana of the Netherlands|Crown Princess Juliana]], daughter of [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Queen Wilhelmina]].
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|+ Unknown ? Reuss nobility
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! [[NSDAP]]<br/>[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|centre|30px]] !!Nazi Party!!Military<br/>Rank!!Title and<br/>Name!!Royal<br/>House!! [[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|left|40px]]''[[Unknown ?]]'' Reuss Princes and Princesses in the Nazi Party[[File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1933–1945).svg|right|40px]]
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| NSDAP – 912977||Joined: 1 February 1932||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Heinrich of Reuss]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px]]Reuss || Born 28 March 1890. Heinrich Harry, Prince of Reuss, Graf von Plauen, was the son of [[Heinrich XXVI, Prince of Reuss]] (b. 15 December 1857) and [[Viktoria, Gräfin von Fürstenstein]] (b. 11 September 1863). He was the husband of Huberta Valeska Sascha Eva Anna Dorothea, Freiin von Tiele-Winckler. Prince Heinrich joined the Nazi Party at the same time as Princess Huberta.
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| NSDAP – 912978||Joined: 1 February 1932||  ||align="center" | [[Princess Huberta of Reuss]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px]]Reuss || Born 14 April 1889. Princess Edina-Huberta of Reuss, was the daughter of Heinrich Harry, Prince Reuss, Graf von Plauen (b. 28 March 1890) and Huberta Valeska Sascha Eva Anna Dorothea, Baroness von Tiele-Winckler (b. 14 April 1889).
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| NSDAP – 1190474||Joined: 1 May 1932||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Heinrich XXXVI]] ||align="center" | [[File:Wappen Bad Köstritz.png|60px]]Reuss (Köstritz)||Born 10 August 1888. Heinrich XXXVI Prince Reuß zu Köstritz, was born in Stonsdorf, and died in [[Oberstdorf]] 10 May 1956.
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| NSDAP – 3018157||Joined: 1 May 1933||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Heinrich XXXV]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px]]Reuss || Born 10 August 1888. Brother of Heinrich XXXIII, and XXXII. Heinrich XXXV (1887–1936) married firstly in 1911 (divorced 1921) Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1888–1947), married secondly in 1921 (divorced 1923) [[Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld|Princess Marie Adelaide of Lippe]] (1895–1993).
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| NSDAP – 4418345||Joined: 1 May 1937||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Heinrich XXVII]] ||align="center" |  [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px]]Reuss || Born 13 December 1897.
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| NSDAP – 7089148||Joined: 1 September 1939||  ||align="center" | [[Prince Heinrich of Reuss]] || align="center" | [[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|70px]]Reuss || Born 26 May 1921. [[Prince Heinrich V Reuss of Köstritz]] (d. 28 October 1980) was the son of Marie Adelheid and [[Heinrich XXXV Prinz Reuss zu Köstritz]], her first husband's younger brother.
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==See also==
* [[List of German monarchs in 1918]]
* [[Abdication of Wilhelm II]]
* [[List of Nazi Party leaders and officials]]
* [[Glossary of Nazi Germany]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==Sources==
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*{{cite book |last=Stein|first=Harry |title=Buchenwald concentration camp 1937–1945 |year=2004 |publisher=Wallstein Verlag |isbn=3-89244-695-4 }}
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