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Persoonlijke gegevens Josias von Waldeck-Pyrmont Prince 

• Hij is geboren op 13 mei 1896 in Arolsen, Hessen, Germany.
• Hij is overleden op 30 november 1967 in Schaumburg, hij was toen 71 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Friedrich Adolf Hermann von Waldeck und Pyrmont en Bathildis Marie Leopoldine Anna Auguste Prinzessin von Schaumburg Lippe
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Josias von Waldeck-Pyrmont Prince

Hij is getrouwd met Altburg Maria Herzogin von Oldenburg.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 augustus 1922 te Rastede, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.

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Notities over Josias von Waldeck-Pyrmont Prince

Josias Georg Wilhelm Adolf Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont

SS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader of the SS-Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra

http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/waldeck.htm

As a footnote, Friedrich II's son and heir, Erbprinz Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, has the distinction of being the only head of a German ruling house to have been imprisoned for war crimes - he was the Higher SS and Police Leader (Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer) for the region of Germany which gave him supervision of Buchenwald concentration camp. An SS-Obergruppenführer, he had also headed the so-called Bureau for the Germanization of the Eastern Peoples (Büro zur Eindeutschung der Ostvölker). A defendant in the 1947 Buchenwald trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released in 1950 due to ill health.

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Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
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Josias Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont
13 May 1896(1896-05-13) —   30 November 1967 (aged 71)

Place of birth Schloß Schaumburg, Arolsen, German Empire
Place of death Schloß Schaumburg, Arolsen, Germany
Allegiance Flag of German Empire German Empire (to 1918)
Flag of Germany Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Flag of Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Years of service 1914–  1945
Rank Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS
Commands held HSSPF Fulda-Werra
SS-Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Eisernes Kreuz I

Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (In German: Josias Georg Wilhelm Adolf Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont) - (13 May 1896 - 30 November 1967) was the heir apparent the throne of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a General in the SS. From 1946 until his death he was the head of the Princely House of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After World War II he was convicted of crimes against humanity in connection with Buchenwald concentration camp and sentenced to life in prison, but was later released after serving about three years in prison.
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    * 1 Early years
    * 2 Member of the SS
    * 3 Summary of his SS career
          o 3.1 Dates of rank
          o 3.2 Notable decorations
    * 4 Arrest and later life
    * 5 Family
    * 6 Notes
    * 7 Sources

[edit] Early years

He was born in Arolsen at the ruling familie's castle, the eldest son and heir of Prince Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his consort Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe. He enlisted in the German Army as a cadet and saw action during the First World War where he was suffered serious injuries.[1] At the end of the war his family lost their Principality as Waldeck became a Free State in the new Weimar republic.

[edit] Member of the SS
Mug shot of Waldeck taken in connection with his trial for the crimes he committed at Buchenwald concentration camp.

After the war Josias studied agriculture and on 1 November 1929 he joined Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party becoming a member of the SS on 2 March 1930. He was immediately appointed adjutant to Sepp Dietrich a leading member of the SS before becoming Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and staff chief in September 1930.[1]

Josias was elected as the Reichstag member for Düsseldorf-West in 1933 and was promoted to the rank of SS Lieutenant General.[1] He was promoted again in 1939 when he became the Higher SS and Police Leader for Weimar. In this position he had supervisory authority over Buchenwald concentration camp.[2] Adolf Hitler appointed him a member of the Ordnungspolizei in April 1941 and a year later he was appointed High Commissioner of Police in German occupied France.[3] One of his first acts in his new role was to announce that French hostages would be placed on German troop trains so as to discourage sabotage attempts on them.[4] He was made a General in the Waffen-SS in July 1944.[2]

[edit] Summary of his SS career

[edit] Dates of rank

    * SS-Sturmbannführer: April 6, 1930
    * SS-Standartenführer: May 11, 1930
    * SS-Oberführer: September 15, 1931
    * SS-Gruppenführer: March 15, 1932
    * SS-Obergruppenführer: January 30, 1936 und General der Waffen-SS: July 1, 1944

[edit] Notable decorations

    * 1914 Iron Cross Second (?) and First (?) Classes
    * SS-Honour Ring (?)
    * Clasp to the Iron Cross Second (1939) and First (1939) Classes
    * WWI Wound Badge (?)
    * Golden Party Badge (1933)
    * Cross of Honor (1934)
    * Turkish War Medal (so-called "Gallipoli Star") (?)

[edit] Arrest and later life
Waldeck in 1947 at his trial, held at Dachau.

He was arrested on 13 April 1945 and sentenced to life imprisonment by an American court at Dachau on 14 August 1947. He was taken to Landsberg am Lech though he only served three years of his sentence before being released in December 1950 for health reasons.[1] He was also granted an amnesty by the Minister President of Hesse in July 1953 which resulted in the fine that had been imposed on him being significantly reduced.[5]

Josias became head of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont on the death of his father on 26 May 1946 while under arrest. He died at his estate Schloss Schaumburg and was succeeded as head of the house by his only son Prince Wittekind.[5]

[edit] Family

Prince Josias married Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg (1903-2001) at Rastede on 25 August 1922 a daughter of the former Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Friedrich August. They had five children.

    * Princess Margarethe (b. 22 May 1923; d. 21 August 2003) married (1972) div. (1979) Count Franz August zu Erbach-Erbach (b. 1925)
    * Princess Alexandra (b. 25 September 1924) married (1949) Prince Botho of Bentheim und Steinfurt (1924-2001)
    * Princess Ingrid (b. 2 September 1931)
    * Prince Wittekind (b. 9 March 1936) married (1988) Countess Cecilie of Goëß-Saurau (b. 1956)
    * Princess Guda (b. 22 August 1939) married (1958) div. (1972) Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Wied (1931-2001); married second (1968) Horst Dierkes (b. 1939)

[edit] Notes

   1. ^ a b c d Wistrich, Robert S. (1995). Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Routledge. pp. 171. ISBN 0415260388.
   2. ^ a b Petropoulos, pp. 262
   3. ^ "Nazi Prince sent to subdue French", New York Times (1942-04-25), p. 3.
   4. ^ ""We Are With You"", Time Magazine (1942-05-04). Retrieved on 22 March 2008.
   5. ^ a b Petropoulos, pp. 266

[edit] Sources
Sister project Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Josias Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont

    * Petropoulos, Jonathan (2006). Royals and the Reich: The Princes Von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195161335.

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