Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley

Origin and family

Anthony Gueterbock is a great-grandson of Dr. Ludwig Guterbock (* October 23, 1814 in Berlin, † February 28, 1895 ibid ) and Bertha Lesser (* February 8, 1821; † January 9, 1894 ). Both grave stones are still 23-25 ​​, received at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Nice Allee.

Ludwig was the first of his family, who studied, and was on November 4, 1867 Secret Health Board. The family assimilated quickly: While his father Baer Levin was an elder of the Berlin Jewish community, Paul Ludwig's three children were (* June 2, 1844, † October 17, 1897 ), Alfred ( born December 28, 1845 † June 2, 1929 ), grandfather of Anthony Gueterbock, and Richard ( born February 11, 1850 † June 26, 1917 ) already was baptized in Berlin, the two older brothers together on October 30, 1860 in the Jerusalem Church, Richard on January 2, 1866 as well..

The family then had a banking house, Moritz Guterbock & Co., which was led by brothers Louis. When it was dissolved as a result of a scandal 1870/71, but voluntary, was the two younger brothers, who were the family tradition has become following merchants, unlike her eldest brother, who died as a professor of medicine and Secret medical officer in Berlin, the economic basis withdrawn and they entered the cotton company Lesser of her mother's relatives in Manchester one.

Alfred married on February 19, 1880 Anna Prüßmann from Hannover (* May 11, 1857, † October 10, 1928 ). The couple had four children: the youngest, Ernest Gueterbock (* June 24, 1897, † 17 November 1984) was a career officer in the British Army (1938 Col., 1942 Brigadier ) and married on August 4, 1937 The Hon Cynthia Ella Foley (* January 31, 1909 Ambala / India, † December 1, 1991 ), daughter of Lt.- Col. Frank Wigram Foley and Eva Mary Fitzhardinge Milman, 16th Baroness Berkeley, whose only child, Anthony was Gueterbock.

Anthony Gueterbock is related to Karl Guterbock (* April 18, 1830; † July 9, 1914 ), whose father Edward (* October 22, 1801, † December 3, 1875 ), and Hans- Gustav Guterbock (* May 27, 1908; † 29 March 2000), whose grandfather Gustav (* May 19, 1820; † October 3, 1910 ) the eldest or youngest brother of Louis Guterbock were.

Career

After attending Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Gueterbock graduated with a Master of Arts ( MA), he started a career in civil engineering and was until 1987 chairman of the company George Wimpey plc. He was then responsible for public relations in the construction of the Euro tunnel until 1995. Guet Bock is currently Chairman of the Rail Freight Group. He is a member of the European Energy and Transport Forum of the European Commission and president of the Aviation Environment Federation, the UK's leading nonprofit organization for a greener future of aviation.

Gueterbock inherited after the death of his aunt Mary Foley - Berkeley, 17th Baroness Berkeley, on October 17, 1992 the title of Baron Berkeley. On 18 April 2000, he was raised as Baron Gueterbock, of Cranford in the London Borough of Hillingdon, the life peer, because after the House of Lords Act excreting hereditary peers from the House of Lords in 1999 and he is not otherwise a member of the Upper House could have been.

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( FRSA ) and the Chartered Institute of Transport ( FCIT ) was added, and received in 1996 an honorary doctorate ( D.Sc. ), University of Brighton.

He married on July 10, 1965 Diana Christine ( Dido ) Townsend ( born October 6, 1942), daughter of Eric William John Townsend, and had three children with her. In his second marriage he is married to Rosalind Julia Georgina Clarke since 8 May 1999.