by Scott Mehl
© Unofficial Royalty 2018

There are two burial sites for the Princely family of Schaumburg-Lippe. The first is the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen (links in German). The Mausoleum dates back to the early 1600s, when Prince Ernst of Schaumburg made Bückeburg his official residence. Constructing was finished after his death in 1622. The remains of several members of Ernst’s family were moved there, and the Mausoleum remained the burial site of the House of Schaumburg and then Schaumburg-Lippe until 1915 when the Mausoleum at Schloss Bückeburg was built.

The Bückeburg Mausoleum (link in German) was constructed between 1911 and 1915 in the park surrounding Schloss Bückeburg (link in German). Adolf II, the last reigning Prince, had the mausoleum built following the death of his father, Georg.

Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe

• Georg Wilhelm – December 15, 1807 – November 21, 1860
• Adolf I – November 21, 1860 – May 8, 1893
• Georg – May 8, 1893 – April 29, 1911
• Adolf II – April 29, 1911 – November 15, 1918

Unofficial Royalty: Schaumburg-Lippe Index

All images are from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted.

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Georg Wilhelm
Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
(reigned December 15, 1807 – November 21, 1860)

Unofficial Royalty: Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Georg Wilhelm was born December 20, 1784 in Bückeburg, the son of Philipp II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Juliana of Hesse-Philippsthal. He was just two years old when his father died and he succeeded him as Count. Because of his age, his mother served as Regent. Upon joining the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807, Schaumburg-Lippe was elevated to a Principality, and George Wilhelm became the first Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. He married Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont on June 23, 1816 and had nine children. He died in Bückeburg in November 1860, and is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe

Unofficial Royalty: Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe
Ida was born September 26, 1796, one of 13 children of Georg I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Princess Auguste of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. She married Georg Wilhelm in June 1816 and had nine children. The Princess did in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France on April 12, 1869, and is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

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Children of Georg Wilhelm and Ida

Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (below

Princess Mathilde
(1818-1891)
Princess Mathilde married Duke Eugen of Württemberg on July 15, 1843 and had three children. She was buried at the St. Sophia’s Church in Carlsruhe, Silesia (now Pokój, Poland).

Princess Adelheid
(1821-1899)
Wikipedia: Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe
Princess Adelheid married Friedrich, the future Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, on October 16, 1841 and had five children. She is buried at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Schleswig.

Prince Ernst
(1822-1831)
Prince Ernst died in childhood. He is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Princess Ida
(1824-1894)
Princess Ida never married. She is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Princess Emma
(1827-1828)
Princess Emma died in infancy. She is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Prince Wilhelm
(1834-1906)
Wikipedia: Prince Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Wilhelm married Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau and had eight children. He died at his home, Ratibořice Château, in Náchod, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). He is buried in the Cemetery of the White Crosses in Náchod.

Prince Hermann
(1839-1839)
Prince Hermann died in infancy. He is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Princess Elisabeth
(1841-1926)
Princess Elisabeth married Prince Wilhelm of Hanau and Horowitz in January 1866. They had no children and were divorced in April 1868. She never remarried. Elisabeth is buried in the Nordfriedhof in Wiesbaden.

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Adolf I
Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
(reigned November 21, 1860 – May 8, 1893)

Unofficial Royalty: Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Adolf I was born in Bückeburg on August 1, 1817 to Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont. He married Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont – his first cousin – on October 25, 1844 and had eight children. Adolf succeeded his father in 1860 and ruled until his death on May 8, 1893. He is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe

Unofficial Royalty: Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe
Hermine was born September 27, 1827, the daughter of Georg II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. In October 1844 she married Prince Adolf I and had eight children. The Princess, having outlived her husband by over seventeen years, died on February 16, 1910. She is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

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Children of Adolf I and Hermine

Princess Hermine
(1845-1930)
Princess Hermine married Duke Maximilian of Württemberg but had no children. She is buried along with her husband in the crypt of the palace chapel at Ludwigsburg Palace.

Georg I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (below)

Prince Hermann
(1848-1918)
Prince Hermann never married. He is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Princess Emma
(1850-1855)
Princess Emma died in childhood. She is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

Princess Ida
(1852-1891)
Unofficial Royalty: Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe, Princess Reuss of Greiz
Princess Ida married Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz in October 1872 and had six children. Her daughter, Hermine, later became the second wife of the former German Emperor Wilhelm II. Ida died in 1891 and was buried in the Reuss family mausoleum in Waldhaus, Greiz. In 1969, her remains were removed, cremated and buried in the New Cemetery in Greiz. They were again moved, in 1977, to the St. Marien City Church in Greiz.

Prince Otto
(1854-1935)
Prince Otto married morganatically in November 1893 to Anna von Köppen, who was created Countess of Hagenburg. They had three children. Otto died in Cottbus, Brandenburg and is buried in the nearby town of Cabel.

Prince Adolf
(1859-1916)
Unofficial Royalty: Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Adolf married Princess Viktoria of Prussia on November 19, 1890. She was the daughter of German Emperor Friedrich III and Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom. They had no children. He died in Bonn in 1916 and is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Princess Emma
(1865-1868)
Princess Emma died in childhood, and is buried in the Princely Mausoleum at the St. Martini Church in Stadthagen.

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Georg
Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
(reigned May 8, 1893 – April 29, 1911)

Unofficial Royalty: Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Georg was born at Schloss Bückeburg on October 10, 1846, the eldest son of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont. He married Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg on April 16, 1882 and had nine children. Georg succeeded his father in 1893 and reigned until his death in April 1911. He is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg
Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe

Unofficial Royalty: Marie Anna of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe
Marie Anne was born March 14, 1864, the daughter of Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg and Princess Auguste of Saxe-Meiningen. She married in April 1882 and had nine children. The Dowager Princess died in Bückeburg on May 3, 1918 and is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

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Children of Georg and Marie Anne

Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (below)

Prince Moritz
(1884-1920)
Prince Moritz never married. He is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Prince Peter
(1886-1886)
Prince Peter died in infancy. He is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Prince Wolrad
(1887-1962)
Wikipedia: Prince Wolrad of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Wolrad married Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe and had four children. Following the death of his elder brother, Adolf II, in 1936, Wolrad became Head of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe. He died in June 1962 and is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Prince Stephan
(1891-1965)
Prince Stephan married Ingeborg of Oldenburg in 1921 and had several children. He is buried near the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Prince Heinrich
(1894-1952)
Prince Heinrich married Maria Erika von Hardenberg in 1933. He is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Princess Margarete
(1896-1897)
Princess Margarete died in infancy. She is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Prince Friedrich Christian
(1906-1983)
Wikipedia: Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Friedrich Christian became an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party and became an advisor to Joseph Goebbels. He was asked to become King of Iceland in 1939 but refused. Following World War II, he wrote extensively, defending the Third Reich. In 1947, he was arrested and ordered to appear as a witness during the Nuremberg trials. Friedrich Christian married three times. His first marriage, in September 1927, was to Countess Alexandra of Castell-Rüdenhausen, with whom he had three children. After her death, he married Princess Marie Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. He married a third time in March 1971 to Helene Mayr. He had no children from his second and third marriages. Prince Friedrich Christian died in Wasserburg, Germany in September 1983 and is buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Princess Elisabeth
(1908-1933)
Princess Elisabeth married Benvenuto Hauptmann in 1928, but the marriage was quickly annulled. She then married Johann Herring von Frankensdorff in 1930. She is buried in Grünau.

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Adolf II
Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
(April 29, 1911 – November 15, 1918)

Unofficial Royalty: Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Adolf II was the last reigning Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. He was born in Stadthagen on February 23, 1883, the eldest son of Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg. Adolf II succeeded his father in 1911, and reigned until being forced to abdicate on November 15, 1918. Although the family retained many of their properties, Adolf went into exile in the Brionian Islands in the Adriatic Sea. On January 10, 1920, he married morganatically to Ellen von Bischoff-Korthaus. They had no children. The Prince and his wife were killed in a plane crash on March 26, 1936 in Zumpango, Mexico. They are both buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus
wife of Prince Adolf II

• Unofficial Royalty: Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe

Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus was born in 1894, and married the former Prince Adolf II in 1920. She and her husband were killed in a plane crash in March 1936. Both are buried in the Mausoleum in the park of Schloss Bückeburg.

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