Jakob Graf zu Eltz

Johann Jakob Graf zu Eltz ( born September 22, 1921 in Klein Heubach, Bavaria, † 10 February 2006 in Eltville, Hesse ) was a German winemaker, Lecturer in Law and wine wine industry. He was the ambassador for the Order of Malta in Germany and was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament. He exercised some honorary positions in a higher position.

Life

Johann Jakob Graf zu Eltz was the younger of two children of Count Karl von Eltz - Kempenich and his wife Sophie, born Princess of Löwenstein -Wertheim -Rosenberg. He grew up in Eltz castle in Croatia. After the Second World War, the family was expropriated by the Communists and expelled from Yugoslavia.

Graf zu Eltz studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and took over after studying the management of the family estate in Eltville and the Burg Eltz. He was Honour and Devotion - Großkreuzbailli, member of the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta in Rome and then for many years its permanent ambassador in the embassy rank in the federal government. The activities carried out by the German Association of the Order sick pilgrimages to Lourdes were co-founded over 50 years ago from him. From 1980 to 1992 he was a member of the Bureau of Malteser ( MHD) and was for many years the diocesan director of MHD in the diocese of Limburg.

From 1964-1976 Jakob Graf zu Eltz was President of the Rheingau Winegrowers' Association. As a longtime teacher of wine and wine right at Mainz Johannes Gutenberg University, he was appointed to the honorary citizen.

After achieving sovereignty of Croatia Jakob Graf zu Eltz returned again in 1990 to his old home back and was appointed in 1991 "with its headquarters in Bonn honorary representatives of the Republic of Croatia" by Croatian President Franjo Tuđman to. From 1992 to 2000 the Croatian citizens Graf zu Eltz was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament ( Sabor ), he had been set up as a non-party member on the list of HDZ.

Family

Jakob Graf zu Eltz older sister was Mary Josephine (1920-1999), the (1917-1988) was married to Ernst von Moy de Sons. In the summer of 1946 he married Ladislaja Mayr Melnhof ( born December 23, 1920), a sister of Marianne Sayn- ​​Wittgenstein -Sayn ( born 1919 ), known as " Mamarazza ". The marriage produced five daughters and four sons were born, who married into the families, among others Schaffgotsch Preysing Lichtenegg Moss, Mensdorff -Pouilly, Guttenberg and Ribbentrop.

The daughter Christiane ( b. 1951 ) was married to the conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg, Baron ( 1971-1977 ), and together they are the parents of the politician and the former Federal Minister of Defence Karl- Theodor zu Guttenberg. Son John ( b. 1957 ) is since 2010 a Catholic city deacon in Frankfurt am Main.

Honors and Awards

  • Honorary citizen of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
  • Golden merit badge of Malteser

Residences

The Rhenish Burg Eltz and the names leadership were with deed of gift by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa as an imperial fief of Rudolph (also: Rudolf) 1157 founded by Eltz. The castle is located for the past 850 years in the uninterrupted possession of the Eltz family. Through family split in 1268 in the possession of the common living at the castle three lines ( Eltz - Kempenich the Golden Lion, Eltz - Rübenach from Silver Lion and Eltz - Rodendorf of the buffalo horns ), the castle was until the early 19th century to a Ganerbenburg and a fief. Already in 1440 went out of the branch of the family Eltz with buffalo horns, 1815 was acquired by Count Hugo Philipp zu Eltz - Kempenich from the line of the golden lion that part of the title to the property remaining line Eltz family - Rübenach ( line from Silver Lion ). Since then, the property in the sole ownership of the family, which was broadcast on Hugo Philip's grandson grandson Friedrich Karl Jakob Graf zu Eltz in the 32th generation, and he has kept the public. His first-born son Karl Graf zu Eltz in the family is a result of nunmehrige owner of Burg Eltz.

Principal residence of the family is since 1945 the Eltzer court in Eltville, which is not accessible to the public.

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