Primarily although not exclusively drawn from the ranks of the minor nobility, the German Noble Society (DAG) — to which an estimated one-third of all adult aristocrats belonged at its 1925 peak ...

It's a bit confusing. When the Weimar Constitution entered into force on August 14, 1919, the legal privileges and titles of German nobility were abolished.

Karwe, Germany – A portrait of one illustrious forebear – a field marshal who strategized against Napoleon – glowers over the fireplace. A hunting dog snores on a sofa. There’s a 17th ...

Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss made worldwide headlines last month after he was arrested for leading a coup d’état in Germany with a colorful mix of fellow noblemen, disgruntled veterans, police ...

Here the legality of Geman Royalty - German nobility law: Legal Opinion on Legal Status under German Civil Law of the Name of His Highness Mr. Dr.iur. Mario-Max Prince PRINZ ZU SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE.

(CN) — Though the U.K. allowed it, Europe’s highest court said Germany need not recognize titles meaning “count” and “baron” that one citizen added to his name. Peter Mark Emanuel Graf von ...

But the praise of literary circles meant little to portly highbuttoned Lieut. Col. Walther von Bogen, editor of the sedate Journal of German Nobility, who, reading novelist Zweig’s book, found ...

Sybille Sarah von Sell Niemöller, the widow of famed German theologian Martin Niemöller who resisted the Nazis before and during World War II, died Sunday morning at her home in Doylestown.