Aktualisierung des Hausgesetzes der Familie Anhalt-Askanien
In January 2010 HH Prince Eduard Duke of Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, Head of the Ducal House and Master of the Order Albrecht the Bear, added and modernized the “Hausgesetz der Familie Anhalt-Askanien für das 21. Jahrhundert” (Family Laws of the Ducal House of Anhalt-Ascania for the 21rst Century).
“In close dependence upon the decisions and changes made by most of the ruling royal families of Europe, inevitable for the necessities of the monarchies and our former ruling dynastyy of Anhalt-Ascania for the 21st Century and because of the actual adoption laws of the Federal Republic of Germany I have decided to add the following new house laws:
- The Salic or Semi-Salic laws are no longer valid and no longer executed by the Ducal House of Ascania.
- The Head of the House of Anhalt-Askania is Prince EDUARD Julius Ernst-August Erdmann, DUKE OF ANHALT, Duke of Saxony, Engern and Westphalia, Count of Ascania, Lord of Zerbst, Bernburg und Gröbzig and his legal descendance succeeding his late brother Prince Friedrich, Duke of Anhalt (1938 – 63), son of the late Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt (1901 – 1947).
- Successor to the present Duke Eduard will be the his first born daughter and her direct lineage, according to the earlier date of birth of her child, independend to the child’s gender.
- According to the new laws of the Ducal House, Eduard Duke of Anhalt’s successor will be Princess JULIA KATHARINA, b.at Bad Tölz 14 Dec 1980 and her decendants according to earlier date of birth, not to gender.
- With her succession – either at the date of the death of her father, his written abdication or a mental health problem – Princess Julia Katharina will become Duchess of Anhalt, Head of the Ducal House of Ascania and Master of the Order Albrecht der Bär.
- Successor to Princess Julia Katharina, future Duchess of Anhalt will be, at present, her eldest child Prince Julius MAXIME Lazllo b at Munich 21 Dec 2010 as future Duke of Anhalt and his lineage of children according to earlier birth, not to gender.
- In the case, that there will be no direct living decendancy by the lineage Eduard Duke of Anhalt to Princess Julia Katharina to Prince Julius Maxime Laszlo; the direct lineage of my second daughter Princess Julia EILIKA b at Munich 3 Jan 1985 shall follow, followed by the direct lineage of my youngest daughter Princess Julia FELICITAS b at Munich 14 May 1993.
- Accepted family members and successors as Head of the Ducal House of Anhalt-Ascania can only be male and female decendants in the direct lineage from the late Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt, Duke of Saxony, Count of Ascania etc. (1901 – 47).
- Members of the House of Anhalt, who adopted or adopt persons who are not direct decendence to Duke Joachim Ernst, never were and shall be accepted as members of the House of Anhalt-Ascania.
Given in Berlin January 1st 2010
Julius Eduard Duke of Anhalt