Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line
January 01, 1970
Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line (German: Heinrich XLV Prinz Reuß jüngere Linie; 13 May 1895 – disappeared 1945) was the head of the House of Reuss from 1928 to 1945, as well the last male member of the Reuss-Schleiz branch of the Younger Line.
He was a great theatre lover and supporter and was a director, writer and consultant. In 1923, Heinrich XLV became head of the dramaturgy department at Reussian Theatre in Gera.
Head of the House of Reussedit
At the death of his father on 21 November 1928 he became head of the House of Reuss after the Younger and Elder Lines merged, when the Elder Line became extinct in the male line in 1927.
In 1935 he adopted one of his relatives, Prince Heinrich I (1910–1982) a member of the Köstritz branch of the Princely family of Reuss. The adoption took place for inheritance reasons, not for succession rights for the headship of the House of Reuss. In 1939 Heinrich I married Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, the niece of Heinrich XLV.
During the 1930s Heinrich XLV became an enthusiastic Nazi sympathizer and member of the Nazi Party.[2] In August 1945, he was arrested in Ebersdorf by the Soviet military, and is presumed missing.[3] Although he was most likely interned and killed in NKVD special camp Nr. 2 in Buchenwald, his name is not in any of the special camps' lists of the dead. On 5 January 1962 he was declared dead by a court in Büdingen.[4] His entire fortune was seized and confiscated in 1948 by the Soviet Military Administration, including the Ebersdorf Castle, Thallwitz Castle, Osterstein Castle in Gera.
Heinrich XLV remained unmarried and childless and the succession of the House of Reuss passed to Prince Heinrich IV of the Reuss of Köstritz branch.
Ancestryedit
Ancestors of Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line
^OTZ.de: Verschollen in Buchenwald: Heinrich XLV. Reuß, retrieved 17 August 2012.
^Lionel Gossman: Brownshirt Princess; A study of the "Nazi Conscience". Open Book Publishers, Cambridge 2009. ISBN978-1-906924-07-2, S. 68
^Kerstin Ackermann: The "Wolfgang Rosenthal Clinic Thallwitz / Saxony in the two German dictatorships, inaugural dissertation, Giessen 2008, p. 51
^"Monarchies of Europe - Formerly-reigning monarchs and present-day claimants in Europe". Btinternet.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C., Reference: II 224
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