Alexander, Prince of Lippe

Alexander, Prince of Lippe (16 January 1831-13 January 1905) was the penultimate Prince of Lippe.

He was born in Detmold the seventh child of Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796-1851) and Princess Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1800-1867). He succeeded as Prince of Lippe on the 20 March 1895 following the death of his brother Prince Woldemar. However Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe was immediately appointed to act as regent of the principality because Alexander was suffering from a mental illness and was unable to rule. In 1897, after a commission under king Albert of Saxony on the subject, Prince Adolf was replaced as regent by Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1842-1904). Count Ernst ruled as regent until his death in 1904, Ernst's son Count Leopold of Lippe-Biesterfeld was appointed to replace his father, and ruled as regent until Prince Alexander's death in Sankt Gilgenberg on the 13 January 1905, which brought about the extinction of the Lippe-Detmold line, with Count Leopold of Lippe-Biesterfeld succeeding him as Prince of Lippe.

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Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold

Princess Leopoldine of Anhalt-Dessau

Prince Friedrich Albrecht of Anhalt-Bernburg

Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg

Princess Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

Alexander, Prince of Lippe

Christian Günther III, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Günther Friedrich Karl I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Bernburg

Princess Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Friedrich Karl I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Princess Karoline of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Princess Friederike of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

German royalty
Alexander, Prince of Lippe House of Lippe Born: 16 January 1831 Died: 13 January 1905
Preceded by Woldemar	Prince of Lippe 1895-1905	Succeeded by Leopold IV