Bettina Bernadotte

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Bettina Bernadotte , grevinna Bernadotte af Wisborg (* 12. March 1974 in Scherzingen , Switzerland ) is a German-Swedish business economist for tourism industry . She is the managing director of Mainau GmbH , which is responsible for the operation of the flower island Mainau . Bettina Bernadotte has a Luxembourgish nobility title and is the eldest daughter from Count Lennart's second marriage to Sonja Bernadotte , who had four children in his first marriage.

Life

Bettina Bernadotte grew up with her four younger siblings on the castle on the island of Mainau and attended elementary school in Konstanz-Litzelstetten and the Ellenrieder-Gymnasium in Konstanz. Even as a schoolgirl, she worked with her siblings on her father's 45 hectare island, among other things as an ice cream seller or in the garden. After graduating from high school in 1993, she first went to language studies and studied art history in Madrid , which she did not complete. A language stay in Florence followed. On her return, she did an internship at the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm and a half year with a restorer. In 1996 she began studying tourism management at the Ravensburg State University of Cooperative Education with the Europa-Park Family and Leisure Park Mack KG near Rust as a training company. After graduating in 1999 with a degree in business administration (BA), she continued to work in project management at Europa-Park and then at Stremler Consultants , a company for corporate development in Lindau . In 2001 she started her own business as a consultant for companies in the tourism sector with the consulting company cbb-ok, Comtesse Bettina Bernadotte, Organization & Concepts in Lindau.

In January 2002 she joined Mainau GmbH . From April 2002 to December 2006 she was the personal assistant to her mother Sonja. On her 30th birthday on March 12, 2004, she was appointed authorized signatory of Mainau GmbH and in January 2007 took over the management of Mainau GmbH. Her brother Björn Bernadotte was originally intended for this, but did not. In July 2013 both were managing directors and managers authorized to represent the company. In 2013 she took over the patronage of the anniversary symposium of Homeopaths without Borders .

Bettina Bernadotte is President of the Board of Trustees for the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau . Since 2006 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the children's aid organization Plan International Deutschland , based in Hamburg , of which she had previously been a member of the board for ten years. She is also the patron of the Europa Mini-Chefs , a member of the administrative board of the University of Hohenheim and voluntarily accompanies the Gärtnern für Alle eV , Insel Mainau and European KulturForum Mainau e. V.

Countess Bernadotte married the agricultural engineer Philipp Haug (* 1972) on August 2, 2004 in Mariefred near Gripsholm Castle . The church wedding followed on October 29, 2004 in the castle church on the island of Mainau. She lives in Konstanz with her husband and three children. Haug comes from a family of winemakers in Lindau on Lake Constance. He is a freelance consultant for organic fruit growing and a member of the Fördergemeinschaft Ökologischer Obstbau eV (FÖKO).

Bernadotte is a Swedish citizen. In addition to German, Swedish and English, she also speaks French and Spanish. She is a founding member of the Rotary Club Konstanz-Mainau, which was founded on November 24, 2007, and which has mainly dealt with the topic of child minders. On September 18, 2008, she took on the sponsorship of the MS Sonnenkönigin .

Trivia

It is a family custom that a tree is planted on the Mainau for every child. In the case of Bettina Bernadotte, this was a magnolia . On June 3, 2007, she also planted a magnolia for her daughter.

literature

  • Bettina Countess Bernadotte - Every garden is an island. In: Kristin Lammerting (Ed.): Garden experts and their green knowledge. Photos by Ferdinand Graf von Luckner. Callwey, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7667-1989-8 , pp. 14-27, online file , (PDF, 14 pp., 1.62 MB).

Movies

  • Bettina Comtesse Bernadotte. Documentary, Germany, 2003, 30 min., Script and director: Christa Auch-Schwelk, production: Radio Bremen , series: “hochpersönlich!”, First broadcast: August 29, 2003 by Das Erste , summary ( memento from April 22, 2007 in Internet Archive ) from Radio Bremen.
  • The young count and his sisters. The Bernadottes on the island of Mainau. Documentary, Germany, Switzerland, 2011, 51 min., Written and directed by Andrea Maria Pfalzgraf Aebischer; Production: SRF ; First broadcast: January 5, 2012 on SF 1 , announcement on mainau.de , online video on SRF.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Martin-W. Buchenau, Britta Gauly: Butterfly in a glass house. In: Handelsblatt from August 19, 2008.
  2. ↑ Imprint of Mainau GmbH, accessed on May 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ October 29th and 30th: Philipp Haug marries Countess Bettina Bernadotte. In: Lindauer Bürgerzeitung with the official gazette of the city of Lindau from November 5, 2004, page 11, issue KW 45/2004, (PDF; 4.3 MB).
  5. ↑ Sonja Bernadotte. Obituary notice . In: Südkurier from October 2008
  6. ^ Lsw: About the person: Bettina Countess Bernadotte and Philipp Haug. In: Gmünder Tagespost , August 5, 2004.
  7. ↑ Work network. In: foeko.de , accessed on May 20, 2015.
  8. ^ Be: Rotarians celebrate baptisms. In: Südkurier of November 26, 2007.
  9. ↑ Jörg-Peter Rau: They turn the wheel together. In: Südkurier from July 14, 2008.
  10. ↑ Daniel Bagehorn: Heli bows to the queen. In: Südkurier from September 19, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Bernadotte, Bettina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haug, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish aristocrat, entrepreneur, manager of the flower island Mainau
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Scherzingen TG