Ruzzo Reuss Death
Heinrich passed away on September 29, 1999 at the age of 49 in Stockholm, Sweden. Heinrich's cause of death was cancer (lymphoma).
When did Ruzzo Reuss die?
September 29, 1999How did Ruzzo Reuss die? What was the cause of death?
Cancer (lymphoma)How old was Ruzzo Reuss when died?
49Where did Ruzzo Reuss die? What was the location of death?
Stockholm, Sweden
Ruzzo Reuss Birthday and Date of Death
Ruzzo Reuss was born on May 24, 1950 and died on September 29, 1999. Heinrich was 49 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: May 24, 1950
Date of Death: September 29, 1999
Age at Death: 49
Ruzzo Reuss - Biography
Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss of Plauen (German: Heinrich Ruzzo, Prinz Reuss von Plauen) (24 May 1950 in Lucerne – 29 October 1999 in Stockholm), known as Prince Ruzzo Reuss for short, was a Swedish-Swiss landscape architect and a prince of the former sovereign House of Reuss, which ruled the principalities of Reuss (now in modern Germany) for almost 800 years. His family branch was the royal family of the Principality of Reuss-Gera until 1918. He was married to former ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who became Frida, Princess Reuss of Plauen, following the marriage.
Although only a younger son of a minor ruling family, when Heinrich XXVI married Countess Viktoria von Fürstenstein (1863-1949) in 1885, under the strict marriage rules then enforced by the Reuss dynasty their children were not allowed to bear the princely title, being designated "Counts of Plauen" instead, while still in the line of succession to the throne of Reuss (The Fürstensteins lacked Uradel status: Viktoria's paternal grandfather, Pierre Alexandre LeCamus 1774-1824, son of a French laborer residing in Martinique, became foreign minister in Jerome Bonaparte's Kingdom of Westphalia, was ennobled there in 1807 and made a count of the French Empire in 1817).
When the German Empire collapsed at the end of World War I, the reigning Prince Reuss lost his crown along with all the other monarchs whose realms were within Germany. In 1927, Henrich XXVI's childless brother, Prince Heinrich XXX (1864-1939), adopted his nephew and the now-deposed dynasty agreed to accept him as "Prince Heinrich Harry Reuß", along with those of his male-line descendants born of unions complying with the family's 1902 rules that permitted marriages to countesses (Heinrich Harry's wife, Huberta von Tiele-Winckler was only a baroness in her own right, but belonged to a family of comital rank in Prussia). Their son Heinrich Enzio was thus accepted by the House of Reuss as a prince, but his own marriage to Baron Peyron's daughter in 1949 occurred before the Reuss family conference of 1957 which lowered the marital standard again, allowing dynastic inter-marriage with baronial families.
Prince Heinrich Ruzzo was married to Mette Rinde, a native of Norway, from 1974 to 1986, and they had twin daughters. From 1986, Heinrich Ruzzo lived with Norwegian-Swedish singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, a former member of ABBA, in Switzerland. They married on August 26, 1992.
