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unusual facts about George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe


Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn

After the death of count Philipp II of Schaumburg-Lippe (1723−1787), Wallmoden-Gimborn acted for his widow (princess Juliane of Hesse Philippsthal) as guardian of her younger son and heir George William (1784−1860).


Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

Also in 1867, Schaumburg-Lippe became a member of the North German Confederation, and later in 1871 became a member state of the German Empire on its founding.

Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

He was born in Stadthagen to the then Hereditary Prince Georg (1846–1911) and Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864–1918) during the reign of his grandfather Prince Adolf I.

Adolph Lippe

His parents were Count Ludwig (1781–1860) and Countess Auguste (1795–1856) of Lippe-Weissenfeld.

Antonio Sartorio

The year before he had been appointed to the position of Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg; just months after the duke had assumed authority over the Principality of Calenberg upon his elder brother Georg Wilhelm's inheriting of the Principality of Lüneburg.

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof

Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippein the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bruno, 3rd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

: ∞ Count Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1870-1914) on 21 November 1911 in Büdingen; had issue.

Chamavi

According to Velleius Paterculus, in 4 BC, Tiberius crossed the Rhine and attacked, in sequence, the Chamavi, Chattuari, and Bructeri (between Ems and Lippe), implying that the Chamavi lived west of the other two named tribes, probably west of the Ems.

Charles II Otto, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Charles Otto was born in Birkenfeld in 1625 as the only son of George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.

Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe

In 1890, William brought his new wife to England, where the Duchess of York commented, "We liked Charlotte very much, she is a good honest soul tho' rather too brusque, she seems to get on well with all the members of the Württemberg family which denotes great tact".

Charlottenkreuz

The Charlottenkreuz ("Charlotte Cross") was a decoration instituted on 5 January 1916 by King William II of Württemberg and named after his wife, the Queen of Württemberg, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

after= George William

#Georg Wilhelm (Bayreuth, 26 November 1678 – Bayreuth, 18 December 1726), successor of his father as Margrave of Bayreuth.

Daniel Dahm

Dahm, D. with Hans-Peter Dürr, zur Lippe, R. (2007): Global Justice, Equality and World Domestic Policy – The Potsdam Manifesto.

Duchy of Bytom

After the 1620 Battle of White Mountain Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg took the opportunity to deprive Elector George Wiliam of Brandenburg of the rule over Bytom.

Frederick William I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Frederick William I, Duke of Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (2 May 1682 – 16 June 1719) was a son of Duke August and his wife, Philippa Louisa of Lippe-Buckburg.

Gau Westfalen-Nord

The Gau Westphalia-North (German: Gau Westfalen-Nord) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Free State of Lippe, Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe and the northern half of the Prussian province of Westphalia between 1933 and 1945.

George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

# Charles Otto (5 September 1625 – 30 March 1671)

George William (German: Georg Wilhelm) (6 August 1591 – 25 December 1669), titular Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count of Veldenz and Sponheim was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1600 until 1669.

In the year 1666 he appointed Günter Heyler as court preacher to Birkenfeld.

Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

In the artificially-created Brandenburg Pond (German: Brandenburger Weiher), fed by the Steinach tributary, he installed a ski jump and organized naval battles with real ships.

Gertraud Wagner-Schöppl

She is married to Waldemar Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe, who has adopted her son Mario-Max Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe, née Mario-Helmut Wagner (born 23 December 1977).

Gütersloh Hauptbahnhof

The Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund OWL (Ostwestfalen-Lippe transport association) is seeking the resumption of passenger services on the Teutoburg Forest Railway (Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn) line to Harsewinkel and Verl in December 2016.

Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Krekeler

After the inclusion of the independent provincial in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on 21 January 1947 were brought together under his chairmanship, the two country groups, Minden and Lippe.

Hermann Landois

In 1871 he founded the Westfälischen Vereins für Vogelschutz, Geflügel- und Singvögelzucht (Westphalian Association for bird protection, poultry and songbird breeding), and during the following year founded the Zoologischen sektion für Westfalen und Lippe (Zoologist Division of Westphalia and Lippe).

Jagdschloss Baum

Jagdschloss Baum was built between 1760 and 1761 by Count Wilhelm zu Schaumburg Lippe and is considered a prime example of late Baroque Classicism.

Jobst Herman

Jobst Herman, Count of Lippe (1625–1678), titular Count of Lippe, Sternberg and Schwalenberg

Lippe-Brake

It was created in 1613 following the death of Count Simon VI of Lippe with his realm being split between his three sons with his second son Otto receiving the territory of Lippe-Brake.

Mark Goffeney

Goffeney has been performing internationally also, performing, for example, on "Lippe blöfft" (ARD TV in Germany) as an opening act for LeAnn Rimes.

Otto III, Count of Rietberg

Otto III was probably born between 1475 and 1485 as the eldest son of John I and his wife Margaret of Lippe.

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

After Charles' death in 1600 his state was partitioned into itself and Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler by his sons, with George William succeeding him in Birkenfeld.

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932).

Prince Waldemar of Schaumburg-Lippe

Since the state laws concerning German nobiliary titles disallow the use of terms such as "Fürst" or "His Highness" as legal titles, such terms can now only be used unofficially as honorifics, or in some circumstances such words may be incorporated into legal names, such as the non-noble Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who legally changed his surname to "Prinz von Anhalt".

Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz

Caroline was a daughter of the reigning Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz by his wife Princess Ida, daughter of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Princess Christina

Princess Christina of the Netherlands (born 1947), daughter of Queen regnant Juliana of the Netherlands and Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Princess Helga-Lee of Schaumburg-Lippe

Her mother was Claude Lennox Miller (daughter of Admiral and Governor Miller), a descendant of Edward Winslow, one of the founding fathers of the colonies in North America, who came on the Mayflower.

Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Karoline Mathilde married Friedrich Ferdinand, the eldest son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe and a nephew of Christian IX of Denmark, on 19 March 1885 at Primkenau.

Principality of Lippe

The Principality of Lippe came to an end on 12 November 1918 with the abdication of Leopold IV, with Lippe becoming a Free State.

Schaumburg Land

Historically it consisted of the former states of Schaumburg-Lippe in the area of Bückeburg - Obernkirchen and Stadthagen and the County of Schaumburg in the area of Rinteln.

Simon Henry, Count of Lippe

Henry Simon, Count of Lippe (13 March 1649 in Sternberg – 2 May 1697 in Detmold), was a ruling Count of Lippe-Detmold

Simon III, Lord of Lippe

In the ancestral lands around the cities of Lippstadt and Rheda, however, the situation was complicated, because after the death of his uncle Bernard V, around 1365, his widow Richarda had initially given his part of Lippe to Count Otto VI of Tecklenburg, who was the husband of her eldest daughter.

State Institute for Music Research

In 1917, an Institute for Musicological Research was also founded under the patronage of Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg.

Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park

Im Jahr 2008 wurde das Gebiet durch die bisher nicht umfassten Flächen der Kreise Höxter und Lippe erweitert.

William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

In 1762, at the request of the Marquis of Pombal (the Portuguese Secretary of State) he led the allied troops in Portugal against the Spanish invasion.

Woldemar

Woldemar, Prince of Lippe (1824–1895), sovereign of the Principality of Lippe from 1875

Woldemar, Prince of Lippe

Prince Woldemar of Lippe was born in Detmold the third child of Leopold II, Lippe's reigning prince and his consort Princess Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1800–1867).


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