Pauline was the wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied, and worked for many years as the regional director of the German Red Cross in western Germany.

She was indicted for concealing, since October 1945, a pair of important Nazis by a military court of the United States.

She confessed to knowingly sheltering Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink and her spouse, former SS Maj. General August Heissmayer.

[3] She stated that she came to know Frau Scholtz-Klink during the years when both women headed significant institutions under the Nazis, the Princess asserting that she had then been the director of the German Red Cross for Hesse, Nassau, the Rhineland and Westphalia.

[4] Her husband's elder brother was William, Prince of Albania, and she was a first cousin of the Dutch queen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.