Albrecht von Brandenstein-Zeppelin

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Wolf Albrecht Jürgen Ferdinand von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (also known as Wolf Albrecht Jürgen Ferdinand Graf von Brandenstein-Zeppelin ; born August 5, 1950 in Biberach an der Riss ), is a German lawyer and entrepreneur.

family

The double name Brandenstein-Zeppelin resulted from the marriage of the only daughter of the airship builder Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin , Helene Countess von Zeppelin (1879-1967), with Alexander von Brandenstein , lord of the Brandenstein Castle in Hesse and co-owner of Gut Hengstfeld. On this occasion, on February 19, 1909, the Württemberg names and coats of arms of both families were united in Stuttgart , with the award of the first-born title Graf for Alexander von Brandenstein and his male descendants. The matriculation with the knightly nobility in the Kingdom of Württemberg followed on May 18, 1909.

His grandson Albrecht is the son of Alexander Graf von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (the younger, 1915–1979) and Ursula Freiin von Freyberg-Eisenberg -Allmendingen (1917–1985). From this marriage four children were born, u. a. Constantin von Brandenstein-Zeppelin . Albrecht von Brandenstein-Zeppelin has been married to Nadine Marie Elisabeth Countess zu Ortenburg since 1981 . There are six children from the marriage.

He is thus a great-grandson of the airship builder Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin and a descendant of the doctor, Japanese and natural scientist and president of the Siebold Society Philipp Franz von Siebold .

Life

Von Brandenstein-Zeppelin studied law and business administration in Hamburg . He works as a lawyer and family entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur
He then became a family partner and member of the supervisory board at MTU Friedrichshafen , in which the Brandenstein-Zeppelin family held a 3.1 percent stake until 2005, which went back to Ferdinand von Zeppelin's co-founding of the predecessor company Maybach-Motorenbau . When the main shareholder DaimlerChrysler AG got into financial distress in 2005 and decided to sell MTU to the Swedish private equity group EQT for 1.6 billion euros as part of its restructuring plans , the family was forced to give up their stake, although Albrecht von Brandenstein Zeppelin tried to hold them. The Brandenstein-Zeppelin family is one of the 500 richest families in Germany.

He also manages his own forestry and agricultural operations in Mittelbiberach and South America. He has founded several companies, including Zeppelin Solar GmbH . He held supervisory and advisory board mandates, such as at MTU (chairman of the supervisory board until 2005) and Südwestbank (advisory board).

Lawsuit against Zeppelin Foundation
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin founded the Zeppelin Foundation in 1909 with funds from donations to support his airship construction. In 1947, at the instigation of the occupying power , the Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern state directorate abolished the Zeppelin Foundation as a legal entity under private law. The foundation's assets went to the city of Friedrichshafen , which continued to run the foundation as a non-legal municipal foundation in accordance with the conditional requirements of the original foundation deed. In 2020, Brandenstein-Zeppelin was defeated in the first instance at the Sigmaringen Administrative Court with a lawsuit to declare the nullity of the dissolution of the original Zeppelin Foundation with the return of its holdings, including 93.8 percent of the shares in the automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG and the construction machinery dealer Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH including the management holding Zeppelin GmbH and other subsidiaries ( Zeppelin Group ). The aim of the lawsuit was to restore the original foundation under the joint responsibility of the city and family. The administrative court denied his right to bring an action without deciding on the matter.

Memory of Zeppelin

Mittelbiberach Castle

Graf Brandenstein-Zeppelin is also responsible for the non-public Zeppelin private archive in Mittelbiberach Castle. The Zeppelin private archive consists of the Zeppelin room, in which memorabilia from the life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin are kept. In the document archive in a side wing of the castle, files, diaries, plans and technical drawings are kept in two archive cabinets. Two large tables complete the document archive.

Religious activities
Albrecht von Brandenstein-Zeppelin was the owner, editor and at the same time publisher of the Catholic newspaper Kirche Today and owner of a Christian book distribution. He is the honorary rector of the Gustav Siewerth Academy in Weilheim -Bierbronnen, deputy chairman of Medjugorje Deutschland eV, co-initiator of the founding of Jugend 2000 e. V., member of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben regional group of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs , first chairman and, together with Hubert Liebherr, founder of the European Family Foundation . He is the organizer and speaker of lecture events such as “Reason and Faith”.

honors and awards

  • Admission to the Order of Malta (3rd state)
  • Sister Ulrika Medal of Merit of the historic Mittelbiberach vigilante group (2010)
  • Award of the Maltese Mission Medal (2014)

Works

Editing

  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): Luther and the consequences for the humanities and natural sciences , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2001, ISBN 3-928273-82-5
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): The doctrine of justification and sacraments from a catholic and evangelical perspective. , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-928273-85-X
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): Origin and future of man. Origin of life and evolution. , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2002, ISBN 3-928273-80-9
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): The church as Corpus Christi mysticus. , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2002, ISBN 3-928273-81-7 (also commemorative publication for H. Em. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the occasion of his 75th birthday on April 16, 2002)
  • In the service of the incarnated truth , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2003, ISBN 3-928273-77-9 (also commemorative publication for the 25-year pontificate of His Holiness Pope John Paul II )
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): The Church and Islam , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2003, ISBN 3-928273-79-5
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): The hl. Sacrifice of the Mass as the pivotal point in world history: natural-philosophical-theological considerations , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2004, ISBN 3-928273-76-0
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): Reason and Faith: on the Complementarity of Science and Christian Faith , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2005, ISBN 3-928273-75-2
  • Divine reason and incarnated love , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2007, ISBN 3-928273-72-8 (also a commemorative publication for the 80th birthday of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. )
  • with Alma von Stockhausen (ed.): Biotechnology and bioethics in the light of Fides et Ratio , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2007, ISBN 3-928273-73-6

Sound carrier (CD)

  • Creation or evolution? , Radio Maria Wigratzbad 2010
  • The one truth and the many religions , Radio Maria Wigratzbad 2010
  • The Christian sense of suffering , Radio Maria Wigratzbad 2010
  • The essence of man and woman , Radio Maria Wigratzbad 2010
  • Life after death , Radio Maria Wigratzbad 2010
  • The importance of Fatima and Medjugorje for world politics , Radio Maria Wigratzbad 2010

See also

swell

  • Who is who ?: The German who's who. Edition 2006 , p. 152
  • Who's Who of Catholics. Edition 2013/2014 , p. 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the 500 richest Germans
  2. ↑ Nobility destroyed. Trial of the Zeppelin Foundation. In: FAZ from June 5, 2020
  3. ↑ Judgment of the 6th Chamber of January 22, 2020 - 6 K 300/17 -. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Katy Cuko and Kerstin Mommsen: Insight into Graf Zeppelin's private archive. In: Südkurier of February 13, 2016.
  5. ^ Albrecht Graf von Brandenstein-Zeppelin: Profit Maximizer. Financial Times Deutschland ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (from September 15, 2005)
  6. ↑ Imprint of the website of Medjugorje Deutschland e. V.
  7. ↑ Kurt Högerle: "Wellness for the soul" , Südwest Presse, December 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Brandenstein-Zeppelin, Albrecht von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandenstein-Zeppelin, Wolf Albrecht Jürgen Ferdinand Graf von (unofficial name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss