Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe
| Marie Adelheid of Lippe | |||||
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| Princess Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz Princess Heinrich XXXV Reuss of Köstritz | |||||
Princess Marie Adelheid zur Lippe | |||||
| Born | 30 August 1895 Drogelwitz, Glogau, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire | ||||
| Died | 25 December 1993 (aged 98) Tangstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | ||||
| Spouse | Prince Heinrich XXXV Reuss of Köstritz
(m. 1921; div. 1923)Hanno Konopath
(m. 1927; div. 1936) | ||||
| Issue | Prince Heinrich V Reuss of Köstritz | ||||
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| House | Lippe | ||||
| Father | Count Rudolf of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ||||
| Mother | Princess Caroline Luise of Ardeck | ||||
Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe (30 August 1895 – 25 December 1993) was a socialite and writer who was active in Nazi Germany. As the wife of Friedrich Kurt "Hanno" Konopacki-Konopath (1882–1962), a prominent DNVP, later NSDAP official (Ministerial Councillor and State Finance Councillor in the Reich Debt Administration), Marie Adelheid was a well known and ardent supporter of the Nazi regime. She was instrumental in the Nordic Ring, a forum for the discussion of issues concerning race and eugenics.
Marie Adelheid also served as an aide to Minister of Food and Agriculture Richard Walther Darré, and produced numerous works of fiction, poetry, translations, and other books. After the end of World War II, she published translations of prominent Holocaust-denying works, such as Paul Rassinier's Le Drame des Juifs européens (The Drama of European Jews) into German in 1964.