Erich von Waldburg-Zeil

Erich August Prince of Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg (born August 21, 1899 in Stuttgart , † May 24, 1953 in Aitrach ) was a German entrepreneur and large landowner .

Live and act

Erich was a scion of the old Upper Swabian noble family of Truchsesse von Waldburg from the noble line of Zeil . His full name was Maria Erich August Wunibald Anton Joseph Reinhard Reichserbtruchseß, Prince of Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg . He was the son of Prince Georg von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg (* 1867, † 1918) and Princess Marie Therese nee. zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz (* 1869; † 1930) and had five siblings. Erich studied forestry and economics at the universities in Tübingen and Freiburg . With the death of his father and older brother, Hereditary Count Eberhard, during World War I , he inherited the title of prince of the Waldburg-Zeil line in September 1918. This involved a very extensive family estate with extensive forest areas, which he took over management. He worked as a partner in the Upper Swabian paper industry. The Katholische Tatgemeinschaft , which he helped initiate in 1930 , led to his takeover of the magazine Illustrierter Sonntag , which was later published under the title The Straight Way and which the historian and publicist Fritz Gerlich used as a medium for journalistic resistance against Adolf Hitler . Erich von Waldburg was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics and promoted Catholic missions and missiology . After the Second World War he became the publisher of the magazine of the " Occidental Academy ", " Das Neue Abendland " ("The uncompromising Christian monthly for politics, culture and history") founded by Johann Wilhelm Naumann in 1946 . In 1951 he became a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

In 1953 Erich von Waldburg-Zeil died in a car accident in Aitrach. In his memory, was in Aitrach the Prince Erich chapel built.

Marriage and offspring

Prince Erich Chapel in Aitrach (2012)

Erich married in the April 5, 1926 Kleinheubach (* February 25, 1905, † December 28, 1992) Maria Monika princess Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, a daughter of the prince Aloys zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg . The couple belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. The marriage had seven children:

Georg Fürst von Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg (1928–2015), head of the former Princely House of Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg since 1953

Josefine (1929–1999), ⚭ 1953 Prince Nikolaus von Lobkowicz

Theresia (* 1931), ⚭ 1962 Alois Graf von Nostitz-Rieneck , son of Sophie von Hohenberg

Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg (1933–2014), Member of the Bundestag

Karl Graf von Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg (* 1936), ⚭ 1965 Maria Victoria de Verdugo y Peña

Sophie (* 1938), ⚭ 1965–1983 Erwein Graf von Matuschka

Eberhard (1940–2013), ⚭ 1966 Johanna Countess von Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen

literature

Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 10. Verlag KG Saur and DTV, Munich 2001, p. 300.
Jürgen Klöckler: Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg, Maria Erich August Wunibald Joseph Reinhard Reichserbtruchseß, Prince of, large landowner, cath. Publicist . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien , Volume 3, pp. 433-434. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2002.
Jürgen Klöckler: Erich Fürst von Waldburg-Zeil: Images of society and organizational ideas of the Upper German nobility after 1945 . In: Society Oberschwaben for history and culture (ed.): The great wide valley of possibilities. Spirit, Politics, Culture 1945–1949 - The Oberschwaben Society Project , pp. 169–176. Lindenberg: Kunstverlag Fink, 2002. ISBN 3-89870-051-8
Erich von Waldburg-Zeil: Social teachings and social experiences of mankind: the teaching of the Popes with special consideration of Quadragesimo anno . Leutkirch: Roth, 1946 (24 pages)

Web links

Erich von Waldburg-Zeil in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Waldburg House: Extract from Paul Theroff's Online Gotha
Works by and about Erich von Waldburg-Zeil in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Together with the Feldmühle Group, he was a partner in the Baienfurt paper mill near Ravensburg, which was sold to Stora in 1990 and closed at the end of 2008.
↑ Stephan Malinowski, From the king to the leader. German nobility and National Socialism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 381–385
↑ Digitized version of the magazine "Illustrierter Sonntag" / "The straight way" in the online offer of the Bavarian State Library
↑ Naumann also founded " Die Tagespost " in 1948 (see Rudolf Uertz: Eichstätt and the Bonner Republic , Die Tagespost, August 6, 2005, ISSN 1615-8415 )
^ " Der Spiegel ", August 10, 1955
↑ From April 1951 the “Neue Abendland” appeared in the newly founded “Verlag Neues Abendland”. Initially it was owned by Erich zu Waldburg-Zeil, after his death his eldest son Georg, the editor was Gerhard Kroll .
↑ Article 109 of the Weimar Constitution (WRV) of August 11, 1919 stipulated that the public-law privileges of birth or status were to be abolished and that titles of nobility could no longer be awarded. At the same time, the previous nobility names were declared part of the civil family name. The Prussian Nobility Act of June 23, 1920, which was adopted in a similar form by the other countries of the German Empire, stipulated that the names of the previous noble families and their relatives had to be the designation that had previously applied to the family members who were not particularly privileged inherited as a family name (so here Graf instead of Prince ). The previous title thus became part of the family name, although the gender-specific variants could continue to be used after a later decision by the Imperial Court ( Countess instead of Count ). Since then, the nobility names have been part of the family name. The Federal Republic of Germany has adopted this legislation. In the case of the House of Waldburg-Zeil , all members have since then been given the civil-legal family name Graf or Countess von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg under German law . To this day, however, it is customary for the respective head of the house to use the historical nobility title of prince on the death of the father , as is still practiced by the corresponding noble families in Primogenitur .

personal data
SURNAME	Waldburg-Zeil, Erich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg, Erich August Fürst von; Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg, Maria Erich August Wunibald Anton Joseph Reinhard Reichserbtruchseß Prince of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur and large landowner
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1953
Place of death	Leutkirch

[1] Together with the Feldmühle Group, he was a partner in the Baienfurt paper mill near Ravensburg, which was sold to Stora in 1990 and closed at the end of 2008.

[2] Stephan Malinowski, From the king to the leader. German nobility and National Socialism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 381–385

[3] Digitized version of the magazine "Illustrierter Sonntag" / "The straight way" in the online offer of the Bavarian State Library

[4] Naumann also founded " Die Tagespost " in 1948 (see Rudolf Uertz: Eichstätt and the Bonner Republic , Die Tagespost, August 6, 2005, ISSN 1615-8415 )

[5] " Der Spiegel ", August 10, 1955

[6] From April 1951 the “Neue Abendland” appeared in the newly founded “Verlag Neues Abendland”. Initially it was owned by Erich zu Waldburg-Zeil, after his death his eldest son Georg, the editor was Gerhard Kroll .

[Fürst-7] Article 109 of the Weimar Constitution (WRV) of August 11, 1919 stipulated that the public-law privileges of birth or status were to be abolished and that titles of nobility could no longer be awarded. At the same time, the previous nobility names were declared part of the civil family name. The Prussian Nobility Act of June 23, 1920, which was adopted in a similar form by the other countries of the German Empire, stipulated that the names of the previous noble families and their relatives had to be the designation that had previously applied to the family members who were not particularly privileged inherited as a family name (so here Graf instead of Prince ). The previous title thus became part of the family name, although the gender-specific variants could continue to be used after a later decision by the Imperial Court ( Countess instead of Count ). Since then, the nobility names have been part of the family name. The Federal Republic of Germany has adopted this legislation. In the case of the House of Waldburg-Zeil , all members have since then been given the civil-legal family name Graf or Countess von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg under German law . To this day, however, it is customary for the respective head of the house to use the historical nobility title of prince on the death of the father , as is still practiced by the corresponding noble families in Primogenitur .