This is the arrested 71-year-old German prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Greiz from Bad Lobenstein, known for his alternative political views and one of the organisers of the planned seizure of the Reichstag in Germany

This is the arrested 71-year-old German prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Greiz from Bad Lobenstein, known for his alternative political views and one of the organisers of the planned seizure of the Reichstag in Germany. After the seizure of parliament and government, Heinrich XIII was to have been proclaimed the new head of state, king or emperor of Germany.

The House of Reuss is remarkable in that every man of the line bears the name Heinrich with an ordinal number, which is part of the name and not of the title, and which starts again from the beginning when the count of Heinrichs reaches one hundred or when a new century begins.

It is curious that the name Reuss means “Russian”, after the nickname of one of the founders of the line, Heinrich I the Russian, who was married to a granddaughter of the Russian prince Daniil of Galicia

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This is the arrested 71-year-old German prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Greiz from Bad Lobenstein, known for his alternative political views and one of the organisers of the planned seizure of the Reichstag in Germany

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