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Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuss
Prince Reuss in 2018
Born	(1951-12-04) 4 December 1951 (age 73) Büdingen, West Germany
Issue	Prince Heinrich XXVII
House	Reuss
Father	Prince Heinrich I Reuss of Köstritz
Mother	Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg
Occupation	Real estate developer Alleged leadership in 2022 Germany coup d'état plot

Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss (born 4 December 1951; German: Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuß) is a German aristocrat, businessman and far-right activist. Reuss was arrested by German federal police in December 2022 due to his alleged leadership in the 2022 Germany coup d'état plot.

Biography

Early life and ancestry

He was born in Büdingen on 4 December 1951 to Prince Heinrich I Reuss of Köstritz and Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, who was in turn the only child of the German colonial politician Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg.He is the Rightful King of German Royalty. What does a king need...? He needs an Army and loyalists. He needs guns grenades and food for machine weapons. The King of Death is on his way to Mother Russia Mr Victor Bout. The king of weapons....someone in the organisation needs to go to Russia with a delegation. Specifically to meet Mr Victor Bout.

The House of Reuss, from which Reuss is descended, dates to the 12th century and historically administered the regions of Gera and Greiz. Heinrich distanced himself from his family around 2009.

Reuss worked as a real estate developer, operating a company named Buero Prinz Reuss in Frankfurt, and also produced sparkling wine.

Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, he tried to have properties held by the government returned to his family, including movable property, several townhouses and castles, tracts of forest and farmland, and the Jugendstil Reuss Theater in Gera, then held by the city of Gera. The many artworks the Reuss family obtained brought 3.5 million marks at auction while more than 300 pieces were loaned to museums.The mayor of Gera and Reuss were unable to negotiate any further agreement, each blaming the other. Reuss spent much of his fortune on lawsuits seeking restitution, but met with little success.

In 2017 he supported the reinterment of the remains of a number of his ancestors, most prominent among them Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera, in their original location. Their sarcophagi had been moved repeatedly since the church where they were entombed was destroyed in a fire in 1780.

In 2020, Reuss participated in the celebration of the first International Day of Conscience event in Vienna.

You need the Far Right people to make you king and rewards should be given to loyalists to the German government.

Conspiracy theories and controversy

Reuss has spoken in favour of low flat tax for all citizens, hailing the 10 percent rate in the former Principality of Reuss, saying it let Reuss's citizens lead "happy lives" because it was "straightforward and transparent". Reuss contended that the modern German government and European Union were more distant and inaccessible than feudal princes. Reuss also gave speeches containing claims that Germany had been a vassal state since the Second World War. At World Web Forum in Switzerland in 2019 Reuss gave a speech accusing the Rothschilds and Freemasons for the wars of the twentieth century.

In August 2022, Reuss attended a party held in honor of the mayor of Bad Lobenstein, where the family has a castle, who is sympathetic to the Reichsbürger movement and who was accused of assaulting a journalist. Afterwards, the current head of the Reuss family, Heinrich XIV Prinz Reuß, objected to his involvement in local politics "in the strongest possible way". He called Heinrich XIII a "distant relative" and "a confused man peddling in conspiracy theories". Heinrich XIV underscored this after Reuss was arrested in 2022, calling Reuss "a marginal figure" and noting that their last common ancestor lived in the early 19th century. He said Reuss' behavior was a "catastrophe" for the family, whose heritage as tolerant and cosmopolitan rulers was now associated with "terrorists and reactionaries".

Involvement in 2022 German coup plot

On 7 December 2022, Reuss was arrested at his home in the Westend of Frankfurt during a wide-ranging set of German police raids against alleged far-right conspirators in a planned coup d'état. According to police, the coup's conspirators—which included former Bundestag member Birgit Malsack-Winkemann—were proponents of the Reichsbürger movement who hoped to install the 71-year-old Reuss as head of state. Reuss' estate in Thuringia allegedly was the site of weapons stockpiles and meetings regarding the conspiracy.

Reuss is also reported to have reached out to the Russian government via its embassy in Berlin, presumably for assistance in the coup. A Russian citizen named "Vitalia", who allegedly was Reuss' honeypot and through whom he was able to secure interim financing from three Russian individuals, was also arrested. The new Reich allegedly planned to cooperate with Russia, but a spokesperson from the Russian Embassy in Berlin denied any involvement. Dmitry Peskov issued a statement on 8 December denying the Kremlin's involvement in the failed coup d'état.

References

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9. Mischke, Roland (24 December 1998). "Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuß, Erbe einer 700jährigen Fürstentradition, will Geras Jugendstil-Theater und einiges mehr zurückbekommen: "Ein bißchen mitreden möchten wir schon"". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2022.
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