(Abolished 11 November 1918)
Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Grand Duke Frederick was forced to abdicate his throne at the end of World War I, when the former Grand Duchy of the German Empire joined the post-war German Republic.
He and his family took up residence at Rastede Castle, where he took up farming and local industrial interests.
A year after his abdication, he asked the Oldenburg Diet for a yearly allowance of 150,000 marks, stating that his financial condition was "extremely precarious".
In 1931, Frederick died in Rastede.
(Abolished 11 November 1918)
Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Grand Duke Frederick was forced to abdicate his throne at the end of World War I, when the former Grand Duchy of the German Empire joined the post-war German Republic. He and his family took up residence at Rastede Castle, where he took up farming and local industrial interests. A year after his abdication, he asked the Oldenburg Diet for a yearly allowance of 150,000 marks, stating that his financial condition was "extremely precarious". In 1931, Frederick died in Rastede.
Former German nobility in the Nazi Party