I know a guy who tells everybody that he’s a duke, and an earl.
Posted on 12/08/2022 7:20:16 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
German authorities say they have foiled a plot by a far-right terrorist group to overthrow the government. More than 3,000 police officers took part in raids across the country, with a self-styled prince among 25 people arrested.
But who is Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss - the 71-year-old alleged mastermind - and what is the Reichsburger movement that's said to have inspired the plan? Heinrich XIII comes from a German aristocratic family that goes back to the 12th century, the House of Ruess, and authorities say the plotters planned to make him leader of a new government. According to German news site Bild, he had been in contact with Russian officials with the aim of negotiating a new order in the country. His descendants once ruled over parts of eastern Germany, but this ended when the country became a republic and their land became part of the state of Thuringia in 1920. Police secures the area after 25 suspected members and supporters of a far-right group were detained during raids across Germany
It's said to be in tribute to Roman emperor Henry VI who gave the family their titles. The numbering system resets roughly each century - or when it reaches 100. Heinrich XIII still appears to be wealthy and a hunting lodge in Thuringia, thought to belong to him, was among the properties raided on Wednesday.
Born near Frankfurt in 1951, he married an Iranian woman and has a son and daughter in their 30s. Details of how he makes a living are unclear, but there are reports he works in property and finance. The current head of the House of Reuss, Prince Heinrich XIV, earlier this year distanced himself from his relative.
In an interview with German site OTZ in August, he described him as a "confused old man"
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Something about this whole story seems odd.
3,000 officers to arrest just 25 people?
doesn’t pass the smell test. Fake news.
I have no idea what it is but I’m all for it.
The Einsatzgruppen ain’t what it used to be.
Well, why not? Republics are turning out to be just as corrupt as monarchies ever were. Anyway, wait for the Nazi connection. It’s coming, you know it.
I was away a fan of the Duke of New York, he had such a fly ride.
3000 cops to arrest 25 people? Day-um.
Those must have been some BAD mo-fo’s!
And, their ‘leader’ was 71?
Impressive
Waidmannsheil Castle in Saaldorf
Cool. Just call someone a right-winger and you to can have a spiffy new house.
Fake. Probably just a bunch of old drunks blowing off steam.
3000 v. 25,
yeah, but they’re ‘extremists’!
-fJRoberts-
Who writes and or edits for Sky News. This guy’s descendants ruled over a part of Eastern Germany . Writer has a problem with timeliness and vocabulary.
Isn’t it a putsch?
They learned from the US DOJ how to manufacture fear among the simple-minded, create headlines, and promote a useful political narrative
One can have multiple titles, easy.
Marriages between noble families can do that, as can inheritance.
Normally the highest title available is used, but not always. And there is a tradition of monarchs using a “lesser” title, that they happen to have, when passing incognito - usually to avoid making a fuss, as everyone knows who that viscount, say, really is, but all have agreed not to notice. And then there are the weirdo’s, like the Conde-Duque de Olivares, Philip IV’s “valido”, or prime minister, who so valued his title as a count that he insisted on still being called a count as well as a duke, when the king made him one.
And the Green Slime?
Episode involved around 100 to 150 properties (all at the same time), and there was weapons, ammo and explosives to be gathered up.
I will say for story value...on the evening of the first day, it hit maximum intensity for public TV news and took up the bulk of ‘hype’. Second day...no one much in Germany saw any value in the story, and it dropped like a rock.
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