Philipp-Ernst, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

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Philipp-Ernst, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (Friedrich August Philipp-Ernst Wolrad) (26 July 1928-28 August 2003) was a head of the Princely House of Schaumburg-Lippe.

He was born in Hagenburg the second son of Prince Wolrad of Schaumburg-Lippe and his wife Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1903-1983). Following the death of his uncle Prince Adolf II in a plane crash in 1936, Philipp-Ernst's father Wolrad became the new head of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe. After his older brother Hereditary Prince Georg-Wilhelm was killed in action at Nössige, Saxony on the 29 April 1945 during the second world war, Philipp-Ernst then became the new Hereditary Prince and heir to the House of Schaumburg-Lippe. Philipp-Ernst succeeded to the headship of the house on the death of his father on the 15 June 1962, and remained head until his death at Bückeburg when he was succeeded by his only surviving son Alexander.

[edit] Marriage and children

He was married to Eva-Benita Freiin von Tiele-Winckler (born 1927) at Bückeburg on the 3 October 1955, they had two sons with the eldest Georg-Wilhelm dying in a motor cycle accident in 1983.