HSH Armin Prince of Lippe (1924-2015)

2014 Christmas card photo

HSH Prince Armin Leopold Ernst Bruno Heinrich Willa August, Prince of Lippe, died on August 20, 2015 at Detmold.  He was 91 years old and he died after a short illness.

Prince Armin succeeded his father, Leopold IV, on December 30, 1949, even though he had two older half brothers,  Hereditary Prince Ernst Leopold (1902-1987) and Prince Chlodwig (1909-2000), both of whom had married commoners during their father's lifetime.  

In Jnauary 1937, Prince Armin was one of the pages at the wedding of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe.

The two older half-brothers were the children of Prince Leopold and his first wife, Princess Bertha of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, who died in 1919.  Five years later, Leopold married Princess Anna of Ysenburg und Büdingen in Büdingen.   Arnim was their only child.

60th wedding anniversary

In March 1953,  Armin married Traute Becker.  They had one son, Prince Stephan Leopold Justus Richard, who was born on May 24, 1959.  He married Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach  in 1994.

Prince Armin is survived by his devoted wife, Princess Traute,  their son, Prince Stephan, who succeeds as head of the Lippe family, and five grandchildren: Prince Bernhard, Prince Heinrich, Prince Wilhelm, Princess Luise and Princess Mathilde.

all photos: Marlene A. Eilers Koenig collection

http://www.welt.de/regionales/nrw/article145467410/Armin-Prinz-zur-Lippe-ist-tot.html
http://legacy.schloss-detmold.de/

http://www.westfalen-blatt.de/OWL/Lokales/Kreis-Lippe/Detmold/2086228-91-Jaehriger-stirbt-nach-kurzer-schwerer-Krankheit-Armin-Prinz-zur-Lippe-gestorben