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So much for Henry XIII. Prince Reuss was only considered a revisionist conspiracy ideologue. Someone who believed in a global Jewish conspiracy and that Germany was still occupied by the Allies to this day. Not even his family would have taken him seriously.

The large-scale raid with 3,000 police officers this Wednesday shows: Heinrich XIII. was clearly much more dangerous. The armed forces would have dug up a suspected extremist network in which the nobleman would have played a central role. The prince should be made head of state by force, it is said. A coup was planned.

If you want to understand the prince’s claim to power, you have to look deep into the family book of his noble family: Henry XIII, who has now been arrested. Prince Reuss was born in 1951 as the fifth of six children in Büdingen, Hesse. His father, Prince Henry I, better known as Harry, came from a sideline and was adopted by the Hereditary Prince, the son of the last regent, Henry XXVII. Prince Reuss (younger line). At the beginning of the 20th century, he in turn ruled his principality and the neighboring principality of Reuss (older line), which, with its capitals Gera and Greiz, lies in the east of present-day Thuringia.

Abandon the November Revolution

The principalities could have sent representatives to the Federal Council of the Empire, then headed by the emperor. Instead, they transferred representation to the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. When the republic was proclaimed for the November Revolution and Kaiser Wilhelm II had to abdicate, the reign of the Reuss-Heinriche family also came to an end.

However, from the point of view of many “citizens of the empire”, the powerlessness was illegitimate. They therefore claim to rule to this day. And Henry XIII. According to the investigation, Prince Reuss headed a secret “council” that planned and coordinated the takeover.

In this council, responsibilities would be divided among the members, for example to an AfD politician, similar to the duties of ministries. A so-called “military branch” was also added to the “Council”. According to the findings, he is said to have even taken hostages in the Bundestag.

Contacts with Russian diplomats

According to researchers, they apparently felt legitimized because of a belief in conspiracies that ran deep in the group. Accordingly, the “Deep State” rules in Germany, ie a kind of secret society of the elite. In the fight against it, the group around Henry XIII. found allies in an “alliance”, another secret society made up of governments, intelligence services and the military of several countries.

A contact between the prince and Russian diplomats in Germany apparently caught the attention of the authorities. The prince, who had already violated the class-conscious rules of the high nobility by marrying a middle-class Iranian woman, was now dating a native Russian. His new love had apparently given him access to the Russian Consulate General in Leipzig. The group is believed to have believed the Kremlin to be the main point of contact for negotiating the forthcoming new order in Germany. However, the federal prosecutor’s office said that there were no indications that he was actually interrogated there.

It was common knowledge that the prince, now believed to be a suspected leader of the terror group, had been involved in conspiracy theories for years. The House of Reuss informed the MDR a few months ago that Henry XIII. Prince Reuss is a “distant” relative, a “partly confused” old man involved in “misconceptions about conspiracy theories”. He left the family group years ago and there is no more personal contact.

Henry XIII But Prince Reuss also has another side: in the metropolis of Frankfurt he led a withdrawn and inconspicuous life as a real estate agent. Neighbors of his home and office have nothing bad to say.

Mayor attacked journalists during meetings with Prince

Performances in Thuringia gave reason for the distance from the family. In Bad Lobenstein, for example, Heinrich XIII. met non-party mayor Thomas Weigelt and AfD MP Uwe Thrum. When a journalist from the Ostthüringer Zeitung wanted to document the meeting, Weigelt attacked the reporter during filming. In the meantime, the mayor has been removed from office by the municipal supervisor due to various incidents and he has also attracted attention with Reich Citizenship Statements.

The journalist had noticed strange things happening around the prince’s hunting lodge: there, posters had advertised an alleged election linked to the citizenship of the principality of Reuss. At the same time, the prince was also spotted by the local police for denying a chimney sweep access to the castle. During his research, the journalist then came across a telling speech by the prince, which he gave at a Swiss economic forum in 2019.

Apparently he was less hidden at the Swiss Economic Forum. In it he spread anti-Semitic conspiracy myths. The leitmotiv of his speech: British, American financiers and Freemasons had planned World War I and put Hitler in power “to promote the dispersal of the Jewish population, to create a separate state for this population as planned”. Germany has been occupied by the Allies to this day and his family has been illegally stripped of power.

Such conspiracy myths would have been the basis for his specific terrorist plans. At the time, however, hardly anyone outside of his Telegram bubble had taken his stories seriously. Already today.