Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe (right)
Born(1899-08-08)8 August 1899
Hannover, Germany
Died6 November 1929(1929-11-06) (aged 30)
Caterham, Surrey
Names
German: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht
HouseHouse of Lippe
FatherPrince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe
MotherPrincess Olga of Württemberg

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932). Prince Eugen was second pilot (German: Zweiter Führer) on a Luft Hansa (forerunner to the legally separate Lufthansa) air liner flying from Croydon to Amsterdam[1]

  1. ^ "Air Liner Disaster". The Times. No. 45354. London. 7 November 1929. col D, p. 14.