Prince-conspirator named “Russian” – Mir – Kommersant
There is no Federal Republic of Germany, and the Germans have no rights. Justice can be achieved only by overthrowing the current government, killing Chancellor Olaf Scholz and returning the great German Empire (or, at worst, the Third Reich). So says Heinrich XIII Reiss – a representative of an old Germanic family, whose name is translated as “Russian”, is perceived by weight, along with dozens of like-minded people across the country, for organizing a coup.
Not very nice, prince
The morning of December 7 for many in Germany did not start with coffee. On all TV channels, on radio and on the Internet, urgent news was broadcast: the country’s gastric organ managed to prevent a coup d’état and the birth of the Third Reich.
The scale of special operations was impressive: 3 thousand units. police officers, searches of more than 100 sites in 11 of the 16 federal states, dozens of detainees and more detainees. Finally, the control of the rebels was entrusted to ordinary Germans. From a residential building in Frankfurt am Main, immediately in handcuffs, accompanied by random arrivals, a gray-haired man in a strange marsh-plaid jacket, blue shirt, orange trousers and thin glasses and a massive respirator.
The man looked more like a professor than the head of an underground organization.
The 71-year-old Prince Heinrich XIII Reiss, of course, is not formally a prince, since all aristocratic titles in Germany were abolished back in 1919. But Henry himself has nothing to do with this. After all, he, a representative of an ancient German family, does not recognize the authorities in force in the country and sincerely believes that the German people lived much better in princely times. Therefore, it would be good if these times were returned. And this is far from the only strange or conspiracy theory that the prince adheres to.
Russian Russian”
Henry XIII was born in 1951 in the city of Büdingen (Hesse). He was the sixth child of Heinrich I Reiss and Wojclaw-Theodora Reuss, née Duchess of Mecklenburg. The roots of the Reiss family go back to the 12th century – the first mention of the founder of the family dates back to this time. His descendants brought the entire Vogtland under their rule – a region on the border of Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria, part of which Reiss ruled until the beginning of the 20th century.
An unusual use of the name Reiss – it contains the phrase “Rus” and “Russian”. it is believed that the family received it after the marriage of one of its representatives to the granddaughter of the Galician prince Daniel Romanovich. Henry sounds like “Russian”.
The family had a tradition. All the boys were called Heinrichs. In honor of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, who ruled in the XII study.
Serial numbers were handed out to Heinrichs without the help of the system. They were not necessarily in order and could be repeated if the dawn-bearer had died. The numbering could be reset when the number of carriers was identified as 100 people or at the beginning of a new century.
In the XIV Study of the Holy Roman Emperor, Ludwig IV granted the Reiss princes. Gradually, the family broke up into several branches that ruled over their small possessions, which was common for the territory of Germany at that time. By the 19th century, when the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, two branches of the Reuss had their own principalities – the older Reuss-Greutz line and the younger Reiss-Gera with acceptable lands. In 1871, both principalities were among the 26 German states that were considered the founders of the German Empire. It was in this form that the family approached 1918, when a revolution took place in Germany, the next year all aristocratic titles were abolished.
Reichsburger from disappointment
Henry XIII himself lived in the suburbs of Frankfurt, worked as a consultant and “coordinated business interests,” according to his website. In addition, he managed a golf course and exempted from real estate transactions. It also produced game wine and traded in works of art. Typical set of a successful business person.
But Henry XIII had another side to life. As they say, he was always fond of that Germany, in which his ancestors ruled over private and dangerous principalities. He quickly became sympathetic to the idea of a movement of Reichsburgers (“citizens of the Reich”), who did not recognize the legitimacy of the FRG.
Their main idea is simple. The Federal Republic of Germany, created after the end of World War II, cannot be assessed, much less sovereign. According to the exporters of this movement, this is only a private legal organization created by the allies, or even just a GmbH, a limited liability company. So they call modern Germany. The leadership of the country is nothing more than a director. In turn, citizens are not citizens at all, but just personnel, therefore they have no rights, but therefore they can recognize this citizenship at any time, that is, in fact, declare themselves citizens of the Reich. Also, according to the Reichsburgers, the country’s borders should return to the state of either the Second Reich before the 1918 revolution, or the Third Reich in 1937.
It is not known when the views of Henry XIII shifted to the extremely radical. But in 2019, he already spoke with them at the WorldWebForum in Zurich. The speech was titled “Why did the blue-blooded elites become warriors?”. Including the usage, Henry XIII stated that his dynasty was overthrown “after a thousand years of existence”, that after the Second World War Germany lost its sovereignty and became only an administrative and commercial structure of the Allies, and behind the catastrophes of the 20th century are Freemasons, Rothschilds and financial calculations in everything.
According to the newspaper Die Zeit, who called Henry XIII “the prince of the putsch”, in other speeches he also expressed “anti-Semitic, anti-democratic and conspiracy views.” So, Henry XIII declared that the First World War was unleashed, helped the more frequent resettlement of the magazine.
By the way, the head of the Reuss-Greutz family, Henry XIV, distanced himself from his relative, calling him “a confused old man.” He also took advantage of the fact that, even if there was talk of returning the Reuss to their principality, Henry XIII would only be in 17th place in the line of heirs. “We have been a tolerant, cosmopolitan princely house in Thuringia for 850 years. “Now we are considered terrorists and criminals all over the world that touches America.”
According to Henry XIV, many years of litigation pushed him to his conspiracy views and recommendations of the coup of a younger relative.
After the reunification of Germany in 1990, he tried many times to return the lands and houses that were previously obsolete to the Reuss. Henry XIII was able to receive only a part of the furniture and art objects. According to Henry XIV, the founder of the summer ago, his relative was a “modern energetic entrepreneur”, subsequently aradicated “from disappointments.”
leader of the conspirators
Last year, Henry XIII began to hold regular meetings of his people. Every weekend the conspirators gathered in an old hunting lodge on the outskirts of Bad Lobenstein. This town in Thuringia with a population of less than 6 thousand people for many centuries walked the lands, ruled the Reiss, and Henry XIII often came there. He was known and loved in the town. In the basement of the house, weapons are also kept by the arrested.
According to the intelligence service, it was Heinrich who was supposed to become the head of the state empire after the storming of the Bundestag, arrest deputies and kill the chancellor.
Witnesses say that Henry XIII was seriously rebuilding the German Empire, and at times acted as if it already existed. The editor of major newspapers in Bad Lobenstein, Peter Hagen, spoke about how, at some point, posters appeared on the streets of the city calling for participation in the elections organized by the election commission flight. Reiss.
On another occasion, Henry XIII held a lecture in the city called “Information event about the FRG GmbH”, again hinting that the FRG was not a real event. Mr. Hagen himself was not allowed to attend the event.
In July, a letter was found in the mailboxes of Bad Lobenstein, in which they were urged to go to a website where they could register as citizens of the House of Reuss. “Do you know that you are actually stateless, that you are stateless and that you have no rights?” – expectation in writing. After that, Messrs. Burckhardt and Hagen decided in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
It turned out that the secret services had been following the conspirators since 2021. They are selective that former and current police officers and other people with similar experience gathered around Henry XIII. They identified the fighting wing of the group, because of which the creation of a new German army subsequently took place. There were various people of professions in the organization, including lawyers and judges. In addition to the military and lawyers, Henry XIII actively involved aristocrats, including those from Austria, in the conspiracy.
According to some reports, Henry XIII met with a Russian woman who was discovered by Vitaly B. German media also write that he plans to get in touch with diplomats, but, according to the prosecutor’s office, they testified that he was contacted in response, no. The Russian embassy in Germany also stated that there were no conflicts with the group. Henry XIII himself had previously declared his sympathy for Russia, based, among other things, on his mother’s family ties with the Romanov dynasty.