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 946 GERMAN EMPIRE: — WALDECK

For the years, 1912 to 1915 the annual revenue and expenditure are estimated to amount to 170,887Z. Public debt (April 1, 1912), 201,584/. In the debt is included a railway loan of 115,000/., against which there are claims amounting to 112,000Z.

Area, 333 sq. miles ; population (1910), 89,917, mostly Protestant. The chief towns, Sondershausen and Arnstadt, have respectively 7,759 and 17,841 inhabitants.

WALDECK.

(FURSTENTUM WaLDECK. )

Reigning Prince, Friedrich, born January 20, 1865 ; the son of Prince George Victor and Princess Helena of Nassau ; succeeded at the death of his father, May 12, 1893 ; married, August 9, 1895, to Princess Bathildis of Schaum- burg-Lippe ; offspring: Prince Josias, born May 13, 1896 ; Prince Max, born September 13, 1898 ; Princess Helene, born December 22, 1899 ; Prince Georg Wilhelm, born March 10, 1902.

Brother and sisters of the reigning prince are : — I. Princess Pauline, born October 19, 1855 ; Hiarried, May 7, 1881, to the Hereditary Prince Alexis of Bentheim-Steinfurt. II. Princess Emma, born August 2, 1858; married, January 7, 1879, King Willem III. of the Netherlands ; widow, November 20, 1890. III. Princess Helene, born February 17, 1861 ; married. April 27, 1882, to Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain ; widow, Mai'ch 28, 1884. IV. Princess Elizabeth, born September 6, 1873 ; married. May 3, 1900, to Alexander, hereditary Count of Erbach-Schonberg. V. Prince Wolrad-Friedrich (brother on the father's side), born June 22, 1S92.

After the war between Austria and Prussia, at the end of 1866, a ' Treaty of Accession ' was signed by the Prince on July 18, 1867, by which he surrendered his chief sovereign rights to King Wilhelm I. for ten years, retaining merely nominal power, and renewed November 24, 1877, till January 1, 1888. A Treaty, made March 2, 1887, continued the arrangement for the future, making it terminable on notice given.

There is a legislative assembly of fifteen members, with authority restricted to purely local affairs. In terms of the 'Treaty of Accession' all public oflScials are appointed by the King of Prussia, and take the oath of fidelity to him. Prussia also manages the finances of the Principality.

The revenue and expenditure for 1912 was 74,670Z. ; and for 1913, 75,300Z.

The debt on July 1, 1910, was 77,595/.

Area, 433 sq. miles ; population (1910), 61,707 (30,544 males and 31,163 females). Protestants, 57,817; Catholics, 2,858: other Christians, 393 ; Jews, 590 ; unclassified, 49. The residence town, Arolsen, had 1,793 inhabitants in 1910.

British Minister- Resident. — A. C. Grant Duff (residing at Dresden).

Consul- Gene^ril. — W. R. Hearn (Hamburg).

Reference.

Waldeckischer Landes-Kalender. Mengeringhausen. Annual.

WURTTEMBERG.

(KONIGREICH WURTTEMBERG.)

Reigning King. — Wllhelm II., born February 25, 184S ; son of the late Prince Friedrich of Wiirttemberg (cousin of the late king Karl I.) and of the late Princess Katharine of Wiirttemberg (sister of the late king) ; ascended the throne on the death of Karl I., October 6, 1891. Married (1),