Execution of the Claussine Schmidts

the House of Schmidt (Claussine branch) / Schmidt family (Nikolaus, Prince of Schmidt, his wife Princess Theresia of Schmidt-Berkstein (survived) and their children Princess Theodora of Schmidt, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (whom survived), Princess Maria Helene of Schmidt, Prince George of Schmidt, Princess Ulricka of Schmidt and Prince Johan of Schmidt (whom survived) and their grandchildren (such as Princess Christina of Schmidt) were shot and bayoneted to death by members of Grolic Communist Party under the leadership of Gilbert de Paulo, in Schmidt Estate at the evening of December 18 - 19, 1908, Also other relatives that killed are Prince Christopher of Schmidt (a first cousin of the Prince Nikolaus), Prince Andrew of Schmidt (son of Prince Karl Achilles of Schmidt) and the Baroness Govan (a Scottish relative of both Claussine and Grolic branches, a member of Clan Davidson by birth and wife of James, 6th Baron Govan; survived the shoot), there are some courts and retainers are killed during the shoot are Tygo Sanders (an American of Dutch descent), Isla Davidson (a daughter of Lee Fredrick Davidson, a cousin of the surviving *Baroness Govan) and* their friend and guard Princess Eloise Maria of Orleans was shot to her head three times, after they all died but, King-Emperor Karl II of Groloos has successfully saved his Scottish relative, the Baroness Govan, his Claussine relatives Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Schmidt, his younger brother Prince Johan, their mother Princess Theresia of Schmidt-Berkstein and their children from communists and stopped communists from killing his relatives; Gilbert de Paulo was furious to his guards after failing to make Groloos a republic and killing Grolic princes and princesses (An example that he failed to kill Karl II's middle son Prince Karl, the Prince Royal) and soon Gilbert de Paulo was imprisoned and shot by Karl II of Groloos' soldiers in December 20, 1908 (after the murder) that made his communist party banned and defunct in Groloos.

In 1957, The remains of skeletal bodies were founded in sixteen graves (twenty-four if Theresia of Schmidt-Berkstein, two of her sons, some of her grandchildren, Baroness Govan and their relatives didn't survive) in a field in Schmidt Estate forest, According to Alberto de Paulo's defunct Communist website: that they were executed by a firing squad by them, Then in 2008 (the 100 years after the execution), the head of the Claussine branch Johan Friedrich III, Prince of Schmidt (born 1937 - died 2017 and a descendant of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II of Schmidt, one of the survivors) is interested in making a state funeral with his son, Prince Johan Friedrich IV in Hofumite Cemetery, Hofum, the funeral was attended by Elisabeth of Schmidt-Berkstein, Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Theodora of Groloos, Archduchess of Austria (Albert VI's younger sister and sister-in-law of Karl von Habsburg), Albert VI, King-Emperor of Groloos (except his wife and two children), Karl von Habsburg also attended the funeral after being asked by his sister-in-law (the wife of his brother).

## Background

On August 1908, the Prince of Schmidt, Nikolaus I, was deposed as the head of the house of Schmidt (Claussine branch). he was succeeded by his eldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm II as Prince of Schmidt and was addressed as *Nikolaus Schmidt*.