SURPRISE TITLES.
MANY GERMANS SUDDENLY MADE BARONS. BERLIN, Jan. 1. By a curious decree to come from a Republican Government the Prussian State authorities have greatly increased at one stroke the numbers of Prussian nobility. Hitherto illegitimate children of parents belonging to the nobility or children adopted by them were not allowed to assume either the particle von, which is the hallmark of noble birth in this country, or any title such as baion or count which the parent or adopted parent possessed. This prohibition is now withdrawn, with the result that a large number of people of illegitimate birth hitherto regarded as commoners find themselves suddenly promoted to the title of count or baron because their illegitimate parents held that rank, and they can, furthermore, transmit it to their own children. The Prussian “nobility” is of course much more widespread than the British. The Government’s action is nil the more curious since it recently suppressed most of the unwieldly administrative titles, such as “the really secret Over-Sanitary Councillor,” wlucli were tlio ambition of all civilian officials.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1920, Page 1
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177SURPRISE TITLES. Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1920, Page 1
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