Bernhard Prince of Baden
Bernhard Max Friedrich August Gustav Louis Kraft Prince of Baden (born May 27, 1970 at Salem Castle in Salem ) has been running the Baden family business since 1998 . According to family tradition, he is also unofficially referred to as the Hereditary Prince of Baden, Duke of Zähringen .
Life
Bernhard is the eldest son of Maximilian Andreas Margrave of Baden (* 1933) and his wife Valerie Isabella (born Habsburg-Lothringen ; * 1941). Together with his siblings, he grew up in the family estate of Schloss Salem . He is related to the British royal family through his paternal grandmother, Theodora of Greece , and is the 2nd cousin of Prince William and Prince Harry .
When the family's finances got into trouble in the 1990s, Bernhard Prinz von Baden gave up studying business administration and law in Hamburg and took care of the restructuring of the family's assets . In the course of this, the family gave up various company investments and parted with three of their four castles:
- 2000: Eberstein Castle near Gernsbach
- 2003: New castle in Baden-Baden
- 2009: Most of Salem Castle was sold to the state of Baden-Württemberg.
After the sales in the 2000s, only Staufenberg Castle and its winery are still owned by the Baden family. The Margrave von Baden winery presses its wines in Salem Castle on Lake Constance and Staufenberg Castle in Ortenau. The vineyard area is 135 hectares.
Bernhard has been President of the Internationale Club e. V., who organized the international horse races in Baden-Baden in Iffezheim until its bankruptcy in 2009.
He became known to a wider public in 2006 when the media reported that the state of Baden-Württemberg was planning sales of top pieces from the manuscript collection of the Badische Landesbibliothek in the amount of 70 million euros in order to accommodate the House of Baden, which is making property claims .
General representative of the margravial family
In 1998 Bernhard Prince von Baden was appointed by his father to be the general representative of the family assets and has been running the company ever since. He runs a modern forestry with ecological variety. He is committed to maintaining the Müller-Thurgau grape variety in the management of the margravial winery .
ancestors
| Max von Baden (1867-1929) | |||||||||||||
| Berthold Margrave of Baden (1906–1963) | |||||||||||||
| Maria-Luise of Hanover-Cumberland (1879–1948) | |||||||||||||
| Maximilian von Baden (born 1933) | |||||||||||||
| Andrew of Greece (1882–1944) | |||||||||||||
| Theodora of Greece (1906–1969) | |||||||||||||
| Alice von Battenberg (1885–1969) | |||||||||||||
| Bernhard Prince of Baden | |||||||||||||
| Franz Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (1866–1939) | |||||||||||||
| Hubert Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen (1894–1971) | |||||||||||||
| Marie Valerie of Austria (1868-1924) | |||||||||||||
| Valerie Isabella Habsburg-Lothringen (born 1941) | |||||||||||||
| Emanuel zu Salm-Salm (1871-1916) | |||||||||||||
| Rosemary zu Salm-Salm (1904-2001) | |||||||||||||
| Maria Christina Princess of Salm-Salm (1879–1962) | |||||||||||||
Marriage and offspring
On June 22, 2001 Bernhard Prinz von Baden married the advertising clerk Stephanie Kaul (* 1966). The marriage produced three sons.
Memberships
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Heinz Sielmann Foundation .
- Member of the board of trustees of the Kulturstiftung des Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
- Protector at the national costume umbrella organization "Heimat und Volksleben" eV
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Prinz von Baden in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernhard Prince of Baden in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe (with photos)
- Website of the wineries of the Margrave of Baden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Margrit Hufnagel: Big names, big legacy. Salem - Bernhard Prince of Baden. In: "Südkurier", May 19, 2018, p. 2.
- ^ Margrave of Baden. Winery: wines. Sales brochure from approx. 2017.
- ↑ Your Royal Highness in Salem Castle. Prince Bernhard. In: The Linzgauer. Edition 2014/2015.
- ↑ Laudation in pictures for nature film pioneer In: Göttinger Tageblatt , June 2, 2017, accessed on April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Kuratorium of the Kulturstiftung Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , accessed on August 5, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Baden, Bernhard Prince of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baden, Bernhard Max Friedrich August Gustav Louis Kraft Prince of (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, head of the family business of Baden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salem |