List of German Nobility and Aristocracy
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German Nobility
The German nobility (German: deutscher Adel) was a class of persons which enjoyed certain privileges relative to other members of society under the laws and customs of various regimes of what is now Germany until 1919. Governments which recognised or conferred nobility were the Holy Roman Empire (962-1806), the German Confederation (1814-1866) and the German Empire (1871-1918). All legal privileges of the nobility were officially abolished in 1919 by the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and nobility is no longer conferred or recognised by the German Republic, former hereditary titles being allowed only as part of the surname. The system of nobility in the former German Empire was similar to the nobility of Austria, as both territories long belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, although the Austrian Republic, unlike Germany's, legally abolished its nobility and banned use of hereditary titles in any form. [1]
An informative article about the differing ranks and titles of the German nobility can be found here.
Last Grand Dukes, Dukes and Princes - 1918
All of the 22 Monarchs below were forced to abdicate in November 1918:
- GRAND DUKES:
- Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden, b.1857, d.1928, House: Zähringen
- Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, b.1868, d.1937, House: Hesse-Darmstadt
- Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, b.1882, d.1945, House: Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Grand Duke Friedrich August II of Oldenburg, b.1852, d.1931, House: Holstein-Gottorp (Oldenburg)
- Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernest of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, b.1876, d.1923, House: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- DUKES
- Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt, b.1901, d.1947, House: Ascania
- Duke Ernest Augustus of Brunswick, b.1887, d.1953, House: Hanover
- Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Altenburg, b.1871, d. 1955, House: Wettin
- Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, b.1884, d.1954, House: Saxe-Coburg Gotha
- Duke Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen, b.1851, d.1928, House: Saxe-Meiningen (Wettin)
- PRINCES
- Prince Leopold IV of Lippe, b.1871, d.1949, House: Lippe
- Prince Adolf II of Schumburg-Lippe, b.1883, d.1936, House: Lippe
- Prince Günther Victor of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, b.1852, d.1925, House: Schwarzburg
- Prince Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont, b.1865, d.1946, House: Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Prince Heinrich XXIV of Reuss-Greiz, b.1878, d.1927, House: Reuss (elder line)
- Prince Heinrich XXVII of Reuss-Gera, b.1858, d.1928, House: Reuss (younger line)
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The local museum has a letter saying that local girls were forced to go to the palace to entertain the princes and visitors (mainly German Princes).
I am still not sure my GF's father was not a member of the Saxe-Coburg family, but now it is pointing at the House of Battenburg (Hesse). The more that join the easier it will be to discover patterns.
edited by Anonymous Whiting