Christian Dürckheim-Ketelhodt

Christian-Ulrich Hartwig Lütke Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin Freiherr von Ketelhodt (born February 16, 1944 in Bautzen ) is a German entrepreneur and art collector.

Life

He comes from the old noble family of Ketelhodt and is the son of the late Gerd Freiherr von Ketelhodt and his first wife Hildegard, née. Countess Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin . Since 1963 Dürckheim-Ketelhodt has been the adoptive son of the deceased Major of the Reserve a. D. Hartwig Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin, on Steckby in Anhalt, which was expropriated from him in 1945 .

Dürckheim-Ketelhodt received on September 4, 1970 in Marburg an der Lahn by resolution of the committee for nobility law issues a nobility law non-objection as Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin Freiherr von Ketelhodt . Usually, however, he is shortened to Graf (von) Dürckheim (-Ketelhodt) .

Christian Dürckheim-Ketelhodt's family fled to Bavaria at the end of the Second World War . He grew up there and in Lower Saxony and attended boarding school. After an apprenticeship at Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank in Hamburg, he studied business administration in Mannheim and Munich and then worked in his own financial consultancy. For thirty years he had a seat on the Supervisory Board of the Franz Haniel & Cie. He has family ties with the shareholders. He was chairman of the supervisory board of the Dom brewery in Cologne.

In 1978, Count Dürckheim-Ketelhodt married Francesca, daughter of Count Louis Käroly von Nagy-Käroly .

Dürckheim-Ketelhodt was a co-founder of the biotechnology company Axiogenesis AG (now Ncardia AG) in 2000 and was its chairman of the supervisory board until April 2014.

Count Dürckheim has been collecting works by painters of contemporary German art since his apprenticeship at a bank and, since the mid-1990s, also from individual artists from the Young British Artists . His collection of German art between the 1960s and 1990s is considered significant. It contains works u. a. von Baselitz , Immendorff , Lüpertz , Palermo and Penck . Parts of the collection were auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2011.

Pictures from his collection are rarely shown in public. In 2014, ninety pictures from Dürckheim's collection were shown in an exhibition in the British Museum , 34 of which Dürckheim had donated to the museum.

Publications

• with Dagmar Kunert: Hermann Nitsch: Masterpieces from the Duerckheim Collection . Exhibition catalog. Residenz Verlag , St. Pölten 2010

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Volume 150, 2011, p. 253.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Dürckheim-Ketelhodt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Christian Dürckheim-Ketelhodt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Christian Graf Dürckheim-Ketelhodt , at Axiogenesis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Neues Deutschland , organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, issue of June 16, 1978, column What else happened (accessed on July 27, 2014)
2. ↑ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume III, Limburg an der Lahn 1975, p. 42
3. ↑ Die Zeit online on June 27, 2011: The big night in the auction house (accessed on July 27, 2014)
4. ↑ Die Welt online on May 8, 2011: It doesn't get any better (accessed July 27, 2014)
5. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine online on May 26, 2014: Luxury hotel: Finninger speculate about investors ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 27, 2014)
6. ↑ See BioCampus Cologne Ncardia AG (accessed on August 14, 2018).
7. ↑ Gina Thomas: I am one of these madmen , FAZ , January 25, 2014, p. 40
8. ↑ The Dürckheim Collection at Sotheby's
9. ↑ Annegret Erhard: The big night in the auction house , Die Zeit , June 27, 2011
10. ↑ I am one of these madmen in FAZ from January 25, 2014, page 40