Carl von Schirach

Carl Baily Norris von Schirach (10 November 1873 – 11 July 1949) was a German-American theatre director and Nazi.

[1] His American wife Emma enjoyed Berlin, talking to Kaiser Wilhelm II in English at receptions.

As theatre director, Carl selected a conservative repertoire, continuing Weimar's anti-Modernist cultural policy.

[1]: Ch 1, 11 On 16 July 1944, Emma burned to death when a plane crashed into their house in Wiesbaden and she attempted to rescue her dog.

He was an honour guard at President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865, and returned to active service with an artificial leg made of cork.

[1] In 1869 Friedrich Karl married Elisabeth Baily Norris (1833–1873) (also spelled Elizabeth), a member of a prominent Philadelphia family.

In 1896 Carl von Schirach married Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou (1872–16 July 1944),[1] an American who also belonged to a prominent Philadelphia family.

Her great-grandmother was Henry's daughter Susannah Middleton, who married John Parker, a state senator for South Carolina who served as delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from 1786 to 1788.