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Welcome to mecklenburg-strelitz.org an unofficial website dedicated to the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Within the site you can find information on the grand ducal house and its members past and present. If you have any information, corrections etc that can improve the content and site please feel free to get in contact. I would ...
Duke Carl Michael, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and ipso jure the last Grand Duke, left Russia in 1919 settling in Denmark. Duke Carl Michael’s letter renouncing the throne dated 27 July 1918 was finally received by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV in December 1918/January 1919 after the monarchy had already ended and he had himself signed his own renunciation on 14 November 1918 ...
His Royal Highness Georg Friedrich Carl Joseph, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Prince of Wenden, Schwerin and Ratzeburg, Count of Schwerin, Lord of the Lands of Rostock and Stargard, was born on 12 August 1779 in Hanover. He was the only surviving son of Duke Carl and his first wife Duchess Friederike, nee Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1882–1918). Duke Karl Borwin of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Karl Borwin Christian Alexander Arthur, Herzog von Mecklenburg-Strelitz; [6] 10 October 1888 – 24 August 1908); killed in a duel with his brother-in-law Count George Jametel, defending his sister's honor. [7]
With the independence of Mecklenburg-Strelitz at stake Adolf Friedrich had requested in his will that Duke Christian Ludwig, second son of Friedrich Franz IV, become grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as it was thought unlikely that Carl Michael would assume the throne having indicated before the war that he wished to renounce his succession rights.
Duke of Mecklenburg. Since the death of Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI in February 1918, Georg’s uncle Duke Carl Michael was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. As his uncle was the sole male dynast in order to secure the survival of the grand ducal house on 11 September 1928 he adopted Georg and his family as his heirs.
Head of the house. Duke Georg Alexander succeeded as head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz upon the death of his father on 6 July 1963, however with Mecklenburg being behind the Iron Curtain he was unable to play an active role in the state. All that changed with the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of Germany in 1989/1990 and ...
