GERMAN ROYAL INCOMES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 26 April 1913, Page 9

GERMAN ROYAL INCOMES.

THE KAISER PKOPERTIS

Sinco it has beou stated that tlio confederate Princes of tho German Empire liavo renounced tlieir privilego of exemption, and liavo auroed to share in tlio exceptional military tax which has routed so ranch opposition, it is of interest to extract tho following details from tlio German journal, "Hoer und Politik." concerning the property of tho reiffnini? princes. Ihu burdon will obviously fall most heavily upon Kaiser Wilheim. II i'ii n ' nc b' estates and castle^ which lie owns produeo an annual incouio oi about cCUSO,OOO. His civil lis!;- is i\\ round figures about half a million sterling white a furtlwr exceptional capital sum ;of Crown-trust money amounting to nearly £900,000 is at his disposal. , Tlio Ivniscr also possesses a fund known ■ | as tho Prussian Crown Treasure, consisting of tho aivinffs of King William 111 of , Prussia, which liavo been since capitalist!. At the time of William Ill's death in 1810 this amounted to five million thalars (.£750,000), of which .£150,000 is iv money reserve. The Kaiser has the disposal of tlio vest. 'l'lio other German princes possess a more or less considerable fortune; but it is tho lax upon their civil lists which will bo of the severest burden. The civil list of the Kins of Wurtoniboi'K amounts to ,{10.1,000 per annum; that of tho King of Bavaria to £270,000; (lie Kin;; of Saxony receives . £1 S3,000; the Grand Dnlio of Bail™ .£06,000; the* Grand ])ukeof Hesse, .CGG.OOO' the Grand ])ukes of Jlecklenburc-Seliwerin and of Oldenburg, each. .I'GO.OOO; tho Grand Duke of Saxc-Wcimar, .£.11,1X10; the. ]>uke .of .C 19.700; tlio nf , cl 'wa'7'h'.irg-Soiulershaiisen. ,£i!d,S>oo; and tlio Prmeo of Schwann™. Rudolstadt, .CMO-nono of them inconsidoMblo incomes from the point of view . tho tax-collcotor* ' •