Carl von Schirach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German intendant (1873-1949)
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Place of Birth: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Carl von Schirach
- Carl Baily Norris von Schirach (born 10 November 1873 in Kiel, died 1949) was a German-American theatre director.
- He was head of the Weimar Court Theatre from 1909 to 1918.
- He was also a chamberlain at the grand ducal court in the Grand Duchy of Saxony, and was a retired captain of the cavalry (Rittmeister). Carl von Schirach was born an American citizen and was the son of Karl Friedrich von Schirach, a former major in the US Army who fought in the American Civil War on the Union side and who was an honour guard at President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865.
- His mother was Elisabeth Baily Norris, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family.
- Carl von Schirach married the American Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou (1872–1944), who also belonged to a prominent Philadelphia family and who was descended from two signatories of the American Declaration of Independence.
- They were the parents of the opera singer Rosalind von Schirach and of the Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach.
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