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: Jose, you are right Germany is a republic.
: The question of headship of the house is a
: mere private question and has no bearing for
: the German civil law. Children can be
: disinherited but have the right to a portion
: of the inheritance - that is obligatory.
: There are other ivil law ways how to ensure
: that the head of the house has the family
: wealth.

That seems to be the Sayn-Wittgenstein case.

AFAIK the present Furst’s father established a trust according to which his male descendants have to contract qual marriages in order to succeed to the title (and probably to the main schloss).

That’s why Gustav, his grandson, seems not want to marry his long time girlfriend in order to retain the house headship once his father will pass away.

Sayn-Wittgenstein abides to the salic law so none of Gustav’s sisters can succeed.

Their only uncle, Robin, made an unequal marriage (actually, two) so the title will pass to their distant cousin Bernhart, provided his marriage to Grafin von Podewils-Dürniz is considered high enough.

Will Gustav and his sisters inherit the bulk of their father´s inheritance or will it pass to the next in-line ?



: The German constitutional court had to
: decide whether the "unequal rule in the
: house laws" can be still a legitimate
: motivation to disinherite a person. The
: German constitution protects marriage
: particularly and here a person is put into
: the position to choose between marriage or
: inheritance. For a long time German courts
: had endorsed that, but the constitutional
: court ruled differently. But this is all
: civil law, has only impact on the financial
: aspects, but nothing to do with the headship
: question.
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: Bakov first supported the Grand Duchess
: Maria,
: but she (rightly) did not want to be
: involved with a political party or a
: political platform. So then he looked around
: for another Romanoff descendant and struck
: upon poor Prince Karl-Emich - mysteriously
: the latter does not need money.
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: Why "mysteriously" ?
: I am aware that K.Emich was disinherited by
: his father upon his 2nd marriage, but was he
: only deprived from succeeding to the title
: or did this "disinheritance" had
: any civil effects and he was ripped off from
: his father wealth too ?
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: Bearing in mind that Germany is a republic,
: that does not seem reasonable .
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: He did not
: succeed his father as head of the House
: because of his second, unequal marriage to
: Gabriele Thyssen, nee (although after her
: divorce she married the Aga Khan and was Her
: Highness the Begum Inaara Aga Khan until her
: divorced from the Aga Khan was formally
: completed in 2014). She has now reverted to
: the title she acquired from Prince
: Karl-Emich, as Gabriele Renata Inaara
: Princess zu Leiningen).
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: I read a couple of articles on the net.
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: One says Bakov wants Prince Karl Emich of
: Leiningen to accede to the throne and
: restore the Russian monarchy.
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: Another claims that Karl-Emich already
: accepted and, in a gesture of gratitude,
: created Bakov a Serene Prince .
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: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/30/russian-businessman-seeks-restore-tsarist-empire-overthrown/
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: http://hawaiipublicradio.org/post/pacific-news-minute-russian-monarchist-hopes-re-establish-romanov-dynasty-kiribati
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