Franz Ludwig Schenk Count of Stauffenberg

Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born May 4, 1938 in Bamberg ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CSU ). He was a member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 1984, where he was active in the labor and social committee and in the foreign affairs committee. From 1984 to 1992 he was a member of the European Parliament , from 1989 chairing the Legal Affairs Committee.

Life

Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg is the third son of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his wife Nina . After his father's unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , he was taken to a children's home near Bad Sachsa and given the surname “Meister”. His mother, two older brothers and younger sister Valerie and other family members were also taken into "kin custody " .

On 25 May 1965 he married in Guttenberg Elisabeth Baroness von und zu Guttenberg , daughter of Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg .

After Stauffenberg resigned from his mandate as a CSU member of the European Union , he was managing director of BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH for the privatization of the formerly state- owned agricultural and forestry areas in the new federal states . The sale turned out to be difficult, because the value of the former people 's forest of the GDR was allegedly on average below the value of the western forest, which was due to the sandy soils and the exploitation of the forests during real socialism.

In connection with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of July 20, 1994, he demanded that members of the National Committee for Free Germany and Communists who had turned against National Socialism from the Soviet Union should not be honored together with his father, also because they would also have sought a totalitarian dictatorship . He received prominent support for this demand, including from the then Federal Defense Minister Volker Rühe ( CDU ).

Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg lives in Kirchlauter Castle .

Awards

1982: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
1983: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
1984: Bavarian Order of Merit

literature

Franz L. Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/2000 from April 24, 2000, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Entry on Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

↑ The Parliament . 18 to 20/13, 2013, p. 14 .
↑ ^a ^b Schrille Mixture Graf Stauffenberg privatized the East German forests. Buyers are mainly nobles. . The mirror. April 4, 1994. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
↑ Ulrich Schneider : Roll backwards - from the political use of history . In: Johannes Klotz, Ulrich Schneider (Ed.): The self-conscious nation and its historical image. Historical legends of the New Right - Fascism - Holocaust - Wehrmacht . PapyRossa, Cologne 1997, pp. 8-30 (here p. 21).

personal data
SURNAME	Stauffenberg, Franz Ludwig Schenk Count of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stauffenberg, Franz Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bamberg

[1] The Parliament . 18 to 20/13, 2013, p. 14 .

[Schrille_Mischung-2] Schrille Mixture Graf Stauffenberg privatized the East German forests. Buyers are mainly nobles. . The mirror. April 4, 1994. Retrieved June 7, 2017.

[3] Ulrich Schneider : Roll backwards - from the political use of history . In: Johannes Klotz, Ulrich Schneider (Ed.): The self-conscious nation and its historical image. Historical legends of the New Right - Fascism - Holocaust - Wehrmacht . PapyRossa, Cologne 1997, pp. 8-30 (here p. 21).