Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe

Marie Adelheid of Lippe
Princess Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz
Princess Heinrich XXXV Reuss of Köstritz
Born(1895-08-30)30 August 1895
Drogelwitz, Glogau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died25 December 1993(1993-12-25) (aged 98)
Tangstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Spouse
(m. 1920; div. 1921)
Prince Heinrich XXXV Reuss of Köstritz
(m. 1921; div. 1923)
Hanno Konopath
(m. 1927; div. 1936)
IssuePrince Heinrich V Reuss of Köstritz
Names
German: Marie Adelheid Mathilde Karoline Elise Alexe Auguste Albertine
HouseLippe
FatherCount Rudolf of Lippe-Biesterfeld
MotherPrincess Luise von Ardeck

Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe (30 August 1895 – 25 December 1993) was a socialite and writer who was active in Nazi Germany. As the wife of Hanno Konopath, a prominent Nazi official, Marie Adelheid was a well known and ardent supporter of the Nazi regime. She was instrumental in the Nordic Ring, a forum for the discussion of issues concerning race and eugenics.

Marie Adelheid also served as an aide to Minister of Food and Agriculture Richard Walther Darré, and produced numerous works of fiction, poetry, translations, and other books. After the end of World War II, she published translations of prominent Holocaust-denying works, such as Paul Rassinier's Le Drame des Juifs européens (The Drama of European Jews) into German in 1964.