BURIAL CHURCHES OF SOVEREIGNS OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE FROM A TO Z

 

BÜCKEBURG (GERMANY)

BURIED IN THE PRINCELY MAUSOLEUM

(Bückeburg, Fürstlisches Mausoleum, Schlosspark, Richard Sahlastr.):

 

1. Prince GEORGE II (+1911)

 

2. Princess MARIA ANNA OF SAXE-ALTENBURG (+1918), consort of Prince George II

 

3. Prince ADOLPHUS II (+1936)

 

The princely coffins are placed in a vault under the mausoleum which is not accessible.

 

 

STADTHAGEN (GERMANY)

BURIED IN THE PRINCELY MAUSOLEUM BY THE CHURCH OF ST MARTIN (Stadthagen, Fürstlisches Mausoleum, St. Martini-Kirche, Am Kirchhof):

 

1. Prince GEORGE I WILLIAM (+1860)

 

2. Princess IDA OF WALDECK (+1869), consort of Prince George I William

 

3. Prince ADOLPHUS I (+1893)

 

4. Princess HERMINE OF WALDECK (+1910), consort of Prince Adolphus I

 

The princely coffins are placed in a vault under the mausoleum which is not accessible.

 

LIST OF SOVEREIGNS OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE 1787-1918

 

COUNTY OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE UNTIL 1807

1787-1807: GEORGE I WILLIAM (Georg I. Wilhelm; Prince from 1807)

 

PRINCIPALITY OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE 1807-1918:

1807-1860: GEORGE I WILLIAM (Georg I. Wilhelm)

Born in 1784 at Bückeburg.

Father: Count Philip II of Schaumburg-Lippe. Mother: Countess Juliane of Hesse-Philippstal.

Married in 1816 at Arolsen Princess IDA of Waldeck-Pyrmont (*1796 Rhoden,+1869 Menton).

His issue who reigned: ADOLPHUS I GEORGE (*1817,+1893).

Died in 1860 at Bückeburg.

Buried with his consort Princess Ida in the Princely Mausoleum in Stadthagen (no tomb).

 

 

1860-1893: ADOLPHUS I GEORGE (Adolf I. Georg)

Born in 1817 at Bückeburg.

Father: Prince George I William of Schaumburg-Lippe. Mother: Princess Ida of Waldeck-Pyrmont.

Married in 1844 at Arolsen Princess HERMINE of Waldeck-Pyrmont (*1827 Arolsen,+1910 Bückeburg).

His issue who reigned:

-GEORGE II (*1846,+1911),

-Ida (*1852,+1891; Princess of Reuss-Greiz).

Died in 1893 at Bückeburg.

Buried with his consort Princess Hermine in the Princely Mausoleum in Stadthagen (no tomb).

 

 

1893-1911: GEORGE II (Georg II.)

Born in 1846 at Bückeburg.

Father: Prince Adolphus I of Schaumburg-Lippe. Mother: Princess Hermine of Waldeck-Pyrmont.

Married in 1882 at Altenburg Princess MARIA ANNA of Saxe-Altenburg (*1864 Altenburg,+1918 Bückenburg).

His issue who reigned: ADOLPHUS II (*1883,+1936).

Died in 1911 at Bückeburg.

Buried with his consort Princess Maria Anna in the Princely Mausoleum at Bückeburg (no tomb).

 

 

1911-1918: ADOLPHUS II (Adolf II.)

Born in 1883 at Stadthagen.

Father: Prince George II of Schaumburg-Lippe. Mother: Princess Maria Anna of Saxe-Altenburg.

Married in 1920 in Berlin Elizabeth von Bischoff-Korthaus (*1894 Munich,+1936 Zumpango, Mexico).

Deposed in 1918.

Died in 1936 at Zumpango, Mexico (airplane crash).

Buried with his consort Elizabeth in the Princely Mausoleum at Bückeburg (no tomb).

 

 

REPUBLIC OF GERMANY SINCE 1918

 

 

Select Bibliography

Burke's Royal Families of the World, vol. I: Europe and Latin America, London 1977

 

Die Wappen und Flaggen der Herrscher und Staten der Welt, Nürnberg 1878

 

Flaggenbuch, Berlin 1905