Alram Karl Gottfried Hans Ladislaus Graf zu Ortenburg

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Alram Karl Gottfried Hans Ladislaus Graf zu Ortenburg (born October 23, 1925 in Budapest ; † August 6, 2007 in Coburg ) was a German from the aristocratic family of the Ortenburgers and patron saint of Tambach Castle . He was a hunter and politician as well as the founder of the Tambach Wildlife Park and the Ortenburg Wildlife Park .

Life

Alram Graf zu Ortenburg was born in 1925 as the first of two children of Franz Carl Julius Graf zu Ortenburg (1875–1936) and Countess Ilona Semsey de Semse (1895–1978) in Budapest. He was baptized Protestant. As a high school student he attended the Casimirianum in Coburg, where he graduated from high school in 1944. In the Rhineland he was trained in agriculture and forestry management from 1947 to 1949. He then studied political science and international law as well as mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics in Erlangen and Bamberg .

In 1954 he converted to the Roman Catholic faith. On October 21, 1954, he married Agathe Countess von Schaesberg in Tannheim (May 14, 1925 in Mainz - December 20, 2011 in Coburg ). The marriage had four children:

  • Marie-Isabell Ily Ghislaine, (born September 1, 1955 in Bamberg)
  • Heinrich Franz Josef Georg Maria Graf zu Ortenburg (born October 11, 1956 in Bamberg)
  • Stephanie Hildegard Philippa Maria (born April 12, 1958 in Bamberg)
  • Karl Johannes Ghislain Maria (born July 17, 1960 in Bamberg)

His only brother, Aurel Graf zu Ortenburg, who was two years his junior, died on October 13, 2001.

Alram Graf zu Ortenburg died on August 6, 2007 at the age of 81 in the Coburg Clinic.

Act

Alram Graf zu Ortenburg was for many years chairman of the Coburg district group of the Bavarian State Hunting Association.

In 1949 he joined the CSU . He worked in the party as a local council, deputy chairman of the district parliamentary group and as district chairman of the economic advisory council.

In 1972 Alram sold the ancestral castle of the noble family of the Counts of Ortenburg, Castle Ortenburg , to Heinrich Orttenburger, a local citizen from Ortenburg . He also sold the wildlife park next to the castle, which he had once founded as a branch of the Tambach wildlife park.

As a long-time lay spokesman for the Archdiocese of Bamberg , he campaigned for ecumenism .

He considerably restructured the agricultural and forestry operations at Schloss Tambach, which he had taken over from his parents. He gave up the ceramics business that was located in the west wing of the castle. The hunting and fishing museum was housed in the space that was thus vacated. In the 1970s he was in charge of the creation of the 50 hectare Tambach wildlife park , which has since developed into a major tourist attraction. He also had a golf course laid out in Tambach . At the beginning of the 1990s, he handed over the management of his business to his son Heinrich.

Remarks

  1. ^ Friedrich Hausmann : The Counts of Ortenburg and their male ancestors, the Spanheimers in Carinthia, Saxony and Bavaria, as well as their branch lines - A genealogical overview , 1994 p. 41

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personal data
SURNAME Ortenburg, Alram Karl Gottfried Hans Ladislaus Graf too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hunter, politician (CSU) and founder of the Tambach and Ortenburg wildlife parks
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2007
Place of death Coburg