VERY RARE GERMANY ND (1888) Kaiser Wilhelm II & Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria

VERY RARE GERMANY ND (1888) Kaiser Wilhelm II & Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria. No Date AU Bronze 27mm 10.4g by Lauer Nuremberg. Very Rare Medal, Wilhelm II Came to The Throne.

1888 and Crown Prince Rudolf committed Suicide on. This medal was made between these dates or at Rudolfs death. Obverse: Kieser Wilhelm II King of Prussia. Reverse: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungarian Empire. This is one of only a small number of medals. Crown Prince Rudolf and the only one to also include. Die sinking establishment in Nuremberg. Founded by Ludwig Christoph Lauer in 1729. Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria. (Rudolf Franz Karl Josef; 21 August 1858 - 30 January 1889) was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (Sissi). He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from birth. In 1889, he died in a suicide pact with his mistress Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge. [1] The ensuing scandal made international headlines. In 1886, Rudolf bought Mayerling, a hunting lodge.

In late 1888, the 30-year-old Crown Prince met the 17-year-old Freiin (Baroness) Marie von Vetsera, known by the more fashionable Anglophile name Mary, and began an affair with her. On 30 January 1889, he and the young Baroness were discovered dead in the lodge as a result of an apparent joint suicide. As suicide would prevent him from being given a church burial, Rudolf was officially declared to have been in a state of "mental unbalance", and he was buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) of the Capuchin Church in Vienna.

Vetsera's body was smuggled out of Mayerling in the middle of the night and secretly buried in the village cemetery at Heiligenkreuz. [8][10] The Emperor had Mayerling converted into a penitential convent of Carmelite nuns and endowed a chantry so that daily prayers would eternally be said by the nuns for the repose of Rudolf's soul. Vetsera's private letters were discovered in a safe deposit box in an Austrian bank in 2015, and they revealed that she was preparing to commit suicide alongside Rudolf, out of love.

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Brand: LAUER
Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
Type: Medal
Composition: Bronze
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany