Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932). Prince Eugen was second pilot on a Luft Hansa (forerunner to the legally separate Lufthansa) air liner flying from Croydon to Amsterdam

Family His father, Prince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe, son of Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, married Princess Olga of Württemberg on 3 November 1898 at Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. Prince Eugen was born 8 August 1899. He had two brothers: Prince Albrecht of Schaumburg-Lippe and Prince Bernhard of Schaumburg-Lippe. Prince Albrecht married on 2 September 1930 Baroness Walburga von Hirschberg. They had no children. He had a daughter with Baroness Marie-Gabriele von Pfetten-Arnbach. Prince Bernhard died in childhood.

This was the prince's first air accident, "although he had risked his life scores of times." He is a stunt flyer "by inclination," and only two-weeks ago he "performed hair-raising stunts" over Berlin's Tempelhof Air Field, where he swung from a trapeze hanging from a flying airplane. He was working on his qualifications for the Berlin-Croydon-Amsterdam service for a full pilot's license.