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Deutschland

Schaumburg-Lippe

Adolph II

Chief of No unit.  Only a major appointed A.L.S to Hussar Reg 7

 

Died in an air crash in Mexico in 1936.

ADOLF II Bernhard Moritz Ernst Waldemar Fst zu Schaumburg-Lippe, renounced the throne 16 Nov 1918 (Stadthagen 23 Feb 1883-k.in air crash Zompango, Mexico 26 Mar 1936); m.Berlin 10 Jan 1920 Ellen Bischoff-Korthaus (Munich 6 Nov 1894-k.with her husband 26 Mar 1936)

 

 

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The Kaiser's sister known as Moretta, married the seventh child of the Duke. Adolf and Moretta lived a quiet life. Adolf died in the middle of World War I in 1916. After the war and the fall of the German Empire, Moretta was allowed to live in Germany. In 1927, when she was 62, she met a young Russian refugee and professional waiter, Alexander Zoubkhoff, who was 27 years old. She married him in Novemeber of that year. Her family was shocked with the news of her marriage and they broke off relations with her; she didn't care and she defended her marriage: " Nobody's consent -not even the Kaiser's- is required for my marriage. It is incorrect to say that he has refused consent as such step would be unnecessary, owing the fact that the Kaiser is not head of the Schaumburg Lippe family. In fact nobody's consent is required";. The marriage was a failure; two years later she began  the divorce proceedings. Before the case came to court, Moretta died on November 13, 1929. Zoubkhoff was on his way to attend his wife's funeral when he was arrested for violating a law, expelling all Russain parvenu from German soil. He died in poverty in Luxembourg in 1936.

 

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