Raid against Reich citizens: Who is Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuss? | hessenschau.de

He is said to have played the central role in the overthrow fantasies of suspected terrorists: Henry XIII. Prince Reuss from Frankfurt. What do we know about the man that the citizens of the Reich apparently wanted to make the new head of state?

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Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) describes the action, which has been running throughout Germany since early Wednesday morning, as one of the largest police operations against a terrorist organization in recent years. Homes were searched and 25 suspects arrested. On Thursday, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) raised the number of accused supporters of the group to 54. This number could continue to grow, said BKA President Holger Münch in the ARD morning show. The main accused in the whole complex: Henry XIII. Prince Reuss from Frankfurt.

According to information from NDR, WDR and Süddeutscher newspaper work as a real estate agent. After an apparently planned, violent seizure of power, he was to form the head of a new government for Germany. According to MDR information, the man appealed arrest warrant before. Who is Henry XIII. Prince Reuss?

Reichsbürger-nah – family no longer has contact with him

The prince is said to be close to the Reich citizen scene, which does not recognize the Federal Republic in its form of government and with its borders. His family, the princely house of Reuss, distanced itself according to a report by the MDR from August 2022 from her relative some time ago. Henry XIII According to Prince Heinrich XIV, the spokesman for the House of Reuss, he was a partially confused man who was caught up in “conspiracy theory misconceptions”, MDR reported.

The accused left the family group 14 years ago, and there has been no personal contact for a long time. The prince is the squire of a hunting lodge in Bad Lobenstein in East Thuringia. The investigations by the security authorities began in the spring after initial information from the Hessian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. It was here that people noticed him.

Prince adorns himself with a coat of arms – for “business interests”

On his website, the prince adorns himself with the family’s aristocratic coat of arms: Various animals can be seen on it, surrounded by a curtain that looks like a royal ermine fur coat. Below it is written “I rely on God”.

The otherwise almost empty website of the prince is highlighted with a world map, above it is written in capital letters “Prince Reuss office”. According to its own statements, the website exists for the “coordination of business interests”. Only a contact form and an imprint can be found on the site. The police searched the apartment behind the address given there in Frankfurt’s north end on Wednesday morning.

But at this address, Heinrich XIII, who was arrested on suspicion of terrorism, Prince Reuss apparently not used to it. At least the pictures show how he was taken away shortly after 10 a.m. from an apartment on Rossertstrasse, not far from the Palmengarten in the Westend district. He wears ocher pants, a light yellow jacket, FFP2 mask – and handcuffs.

Confused statements on esoteric event

There are only a few video recordings of the prince on the Internet – including a 15-minute speech at the so-called Worldwebforum 2019, in which he spoke about the “rise and fall of the blue-blooded elite”.

In the lecture itself, he touches on every conceivable conspiracy ideology: the nobility has been destroyed, from which those who benefited from it – and in the same breath he mentions the Jewish Rothschild banking family. Likewise, Germany is not a sovereign state and the Basic Law is an instrument of oppression by the Allies, but not a constitution: Reich citizen basics.

In early 2020 he performed at an obviously esoteric event in Vienna, the “First International Day of Conscience”. In an interview he explains that one should bring peace and love into the world.

The Attorney General is now accusing him of the exact opposite. The group around him, which is said to call itself the “Patriotic Union” or “The Council”, planned a violent overthrow in Germany. Hesse’s Interior Minister Beuth confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of the alleged head of this association – he is said to have controlled the structures of the terrorist network.

According to the federal prosecutor, the group consists of a network of Reich citizens and conspiracy ideologues. In addition to Prince Reuss, this should also include the former AfD member of the Bundestag and judge Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, who lives in Berlin and comes from Darmstadt. Other members of the group are several former members of the Special Forces Command and the paratroopers of the German Armed Forces, as well as doctors and entrepreneurs.