Adalbert von Francken-Sierstorpff

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Adalbert Klodwig Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Kaspar Karl Waldemar Graf von Francken-Sierstorpff (born September 30, 1856 in Kopice ; † May 27, 1922 in Eltviller Aue ) was a Prussian-German landowner, businessman, philanthropist and sports official.

Life

His family owned large estates in the Grottkau district in Lower Silesia. He studied in Bonn and has been a member of the student corps of the Bonn Borussia since his studies .

Graf von Francken-Sierstorpff was a co-founder and vice-president of the German Automobile Club (from 1905 Imperial Automobile Club), later the Automobile Club of Germany (AvD), and from 1906 campaigned for uniform traffic signs throughout Europe. He was the chairman of the automobile club's technical commission.

From 1909 to 1919 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee . Here he, who had skied in Silesia from an early age , was very committed to ensuring that an Olympic winter sports week should take place on the Feldberg in the Black Forest in connection with the 1916 Summer Olympics in Berlin . Since he had a lot of experience as an automobile club functionary with the coexistence of different associations with the same task and he rejected monopoly , he campaigned against the monopoly efforts of the emerging international professional associations, for example against the UCI , which claimed a monopoly for the Olympic Games.

Manor house on the Königsklinger Aue

In 1912 he married Baroness Bertha Lucius von Stoedten, who was divorced from Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten Ballhausen in 1907. She was born Freiin von Stumm-Halberg and had inherited the Königsklinger Aue near Eltville in 1901 from her father Carl Ferdinand von Stumm. In 1912 she had a new manor house built opposite the Eltville Rhine promenade. With the wedding, the couple's name changes to "Franken-Sierstorpff". In nearby Heidesheim am Rhein he donated a. a. 60 social housing that still exist today.

Count Adalbert was one of the most striking pioneers of German automobilism. He was presidential member of the German Automobile Association, 65th member of the International Olympic Committee, co-founder of the Winter Olympic Games, board member of the Motor Yacht Club of Germany, board member of the German Aviation Association, board member of the Union Club, Berlin Hoppegarten (equestrian sport).

He died unexpectedly on the evening of May 27, 1922 at his home on the island. The extremely simple burial took place on May 31st in the tea house in the south of the Rhine island. Around 1924 his zinc coffin was reburied in a specially built mausoleum in the north of the island. In 1955 the island was sold by the descendants of Bertha and Adalbert's coffin was quietly reburied next to his wife Bertha, who died in 1949, in Oberrod / Taunus . His grave was leveled around 1990 and refurbished in July 2015 at the instigation of Michael Kelm, who located the grave site as part of his research into the origins of German traffic signs. He had rebuilt the grave of the count, his widow and a daughter of the countess and had it blessed by the Berlin auxiliary bishop Bürgener in May 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nobles in the student corps of the Bonn Borussia 1827-1902 - register for the personal data sheets with the biographical corps and life data. - Entry at Adelskartei.de
  2. ↑ Andreas Meininger: E-Mail (public mailing list) ( Memento from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at Hessenland-L Archives, August 6, 2012
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Forgotten Decisions: The IOC on the Eve of World War I. (PDF file) Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies 6 (1997), pp. 85-98
  4. ^ Ansgar Molzberger: The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm - "Patriotic" Games as a breakthrough for the Olympic movement. Diss. Sport University Cologne 2010, p. 164ff.
  5. ↑ Photo: View of the Rheininsel with the manor of Count Adalbert Franken von Sierstorpff, built in 1912. Travel portal alltravels.com
  6. ↑ Gregory Starosczyk-Gerlach: Heidenheim social housing will go under the hammer. Rhein-Zeitung, June 12, 2012
  7. ^ A closed society of gentlemen . "Die Zeit", No. 34 (1967)
  8. ↑ Wiesbaden Courier of May 30, 2016: Grave of Count Adalbert von Franken-Sierstorpff consecrated in Oberrod
personal data
SURNAME Francken-Sierstorpff, Adalbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Francken-Sierstorpff, Adalbert Klodwig Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Kaspar Karl Waldemar Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian-German landowner, businessman, philanthropist and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Kopice
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1922
Place of death Eltville on the Rhine