Faber-Castell (family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Faber-Castell

The Faber-Castell family is an industrial and aristocratic family from Stein near Nuremberg , Germany , who have been doing business in Middle Franconia since the 16th century . The family is one of the most important and oldest economic dynasties in Germany and is the ninth generation of the group of companies around Faber-Castell AG .

history

Faberschloss in Stein near Nuremberg

The AW Faber lead pencil factories founded by Kaspar Faber (1730–1784) in 1761 are considered the oldest industrial company in the world. In 1851, his successor, Lothar von Faber, introduced a pencil standard that is still trend-setting for the entire pencil industry today. For his services he was in 1881 ennobled , making the baronial arose family of Faber. Faber built a representative company headquarters at the Faberschloss . In 1874, with a petition to the German Reichstag “to create a trademark protection law”, he pioneered the trademark protection law in Germany; his pencil mark was registered under trademark law in 1875 as the first product in the world.

Lothar's granddaughter Ottilie (1877–1944) married Count Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen in 1898 from the noble , formerly imperial Franconian family. After Lothar's death in 1896, they took over the company, which resulted in the new company name Faber-Castell . Count Alexander renounced his membership of the Castell family and received the name and title Count von Faber-Castell with the permission of the Bavarian king .

Her son Roland Graf von Faber-Castell (1905–1978) was the last sole owner of the Johann Faber and Faber-Castell companies in the 7th generation, he led the entire group as head of the company for 50 years. He was married three times and had eight children from two marriages. The marriage with his first wife, Alix-May von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1907–1979), whose mother was a born von Oppenheim from the owner family of the Sal Oppenheim jr. & Cie was, was overshadowed by anti-Semitic attacks, since her grandfather, the well-known banker Eduard Freiherr von Oppenheim , was a (evangelically converted) Jew. However, the family was persecuted because of their Jewish origins. Alix-May and her family initially stayed in Germany so as not to lose the bank. In 1935, the marriage of Alix-May and Roland Graf von Faber-Castell was divorced after the magazine Der Stürmer criticized their luxurious lifestyle and the entrance to the Faberschloss was smeared with an anti-Semitic inflammatory slogan. Alix-May later emigrated to Switzerland.

In his second marriage, Roland Graf von Faber-Castell married Katharina Sprecher von Bernegg . Their son Anton-Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell (1941–2016) was the eighth generation CEO for almost 40 years. To enable majority decisions, he bought shares from siblings and their children. His younger brother, Count Andreas von Faber-Castell, looked after the Asian market from Australia.

Hubertus Graf von Faber-Castell (1934-2007) from his first marriage sold the majority of his shares in the company to his half-brother Anton-Wolfgang. He went to China and set up a commercial television station there; He was described by the Chinese government as a "great friend of China" and later became the first European to be made an honorary citizen of the city of Beijing . His son Patrick Graf von Faber-Castell married the actress Mariella Ahrens in 2007 in the Faberschloss. Patrick and his siblings Caroline Countess von Faber-Castell-Gotzens and Floria-Franziska Landgräfin von Hessen (wife of Heinrich Donatus von Hessen ) own one of the most important silver and jewelry collections in Germany. Most of the pieces are open to the public in various German museums. The private collection was included in the Kunstmuseum Köln.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Counts of Faber-Castell comes from the marriage between Ottilie von Faber and Alexander Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen. It fourths the red and white colors of those at Castell-Rüdenhausen with the gold-ground coat of arms of those of Faber. This marriage created a new family line. Roland Graf von Faber-Castell was the first born Count von Faber-Castell and the last sole heir to the family fortune, the founder of the family.

Tribe list

  • A1. (I.) Roland Lothar Wolfgang Christian Ernst Wilhelm von Faber-Castell sole owner of Faber-Castell AG; * April 21, 1905 in Schwarzenbruck; † February 2, 1978 in Ansbach; ∞ I. (January 23, 1928 in London, 0 | 0 1935) Alix-May von Frankenberg-Ludwigsdorf , born September 20, 1907 in Munich; † December 19, 1979 in Polop, Spain; ∞ II. (December 8, 1938 in Stein, 0 | 0 1969) Katharina Sprecher von Bernegg , born June 24, 1917 in Zurich; † April 22, 1994 in Küsnacht; ∞ III. (August 14, 1969 in Stein) Ursula Boden, born October 4, 1924 in Wurzen; † November 8, 2003 in Vienna
    • B1. Felicitas Ottilie Viktoria-Luise Marie Antoinette Berta von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG; * July 10, 1929 in Stein; ∞ (July 20, 1966 in Munich) Tschammer Wagner, born April 11, 1928 in Neisse
    • B2. Erika-Elisabeth Wilhelmine Margarete von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG; * September 2, 1930 in Dürrenhembach; ∞ (November 16, 1953 in Stein) Edzard Graf von Wedel -Gödens, Baron Wedel-Jarlsberg, * February 15, 1924 in Göttingen; † June 12, 1969 in Zurich
    • B3. Alexander-Roland Wulf-Diether Konrad Alfred Lothar von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG (one of 3 main heirs); * April 27, 1932 in Stein; † September 22, 2004 in Haibach, Upper Austria; ∞ (July 29, 1958 in Appelhof, 0 | 0 1962) Alke Lahmann, born October 25, 1936 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
      • C1. Constantin Alexander Karl Christian von Faber-Castell ; * November 5, 1958 in Herrsching am Ammersee; ∞ (June 26, 1992 in Erfurt) Christin Glozinski, born June 9, 1966 in Erfurt
        • D1. Camilla Marie Mariella Alke Sigrid from Faber-Castell
      • C2. Lothar Alexander Carl-Otto Lüder from Faber-Castell ; * March 29, 1960 in Nuremberg; ∞ (November 20, 1992 in Nuremberg) Petra Götz, born December 8, 1965 in Nuremberg
        • D1. Maximilian von Faber-Castell
    • B4. Hubertus Alexander Wolfgang Rüdiger Emanuel Wilhelm von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG (one of 3 main heirs, sold a large part of his shares to his brother Anton-Wolfgang and founded private television stations in China, which he sold to the state); * April 8, 1934 in Munich; † January 29, 2007; ∞ I. (May 20, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main, 0 | 0 1967) Liselotte Baecker, born August 20, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main; ∞ II. (March 15, 1970 in Meerbusch (civ.), March 21, 1970 in Meerbusch (rel.), 0 | 0 1982) Adelheid Freiin von der Leyen zu Bloemersheim, born November 6, 1945 in Homberg; † May 23, 2010 in Wiesbaden
      • C1. (I.) Caroline Elisabeth Renate Ottilie von Faber-Castell ; * August 20, 1961 in Düsseldorf; ∞ (September 22, 1989 in Düsseldorf (civ.), July 29, 1990 in Schloss Stein, Stein (rel.)) Dr. Michael Gotzens, born March 3, 1958 in Düsseldorf
        • D1. Antonia-Sophie Gotzens
        • D2. Alessandra-Louisa Gotzens
        • D3. Nicholas Gotzens
      • C2. (I.) Patrick Alexander Hubertus von Faber-Castell ; * June 4, 1965 in Düsseldorf; ∞ (December 12, 2006 in New York City (civ.), July 7, 2007 in Schloss Stein , Stein, 0 | 0 2015) Mariella Ahrens , born April 2, 1969 in Leningrad, Soviet Union
        • D4. Lucia Marie Christina from Faber-Castell
      • C3. (II.) Floria-Franziska Marie-Luise Erika von Faber-Castell ; * October 14, 1974 in Düsseldorf; ∞ (April 25, 2003 in Wiesbaden (civ.), May 17, 2003 in Kronberg (rel.)) Landgrave Heinrich Donatus of Hesse , born October 17, 1966 in Kiel
        • D1. Paulina Elisabeth Adelheid of Hesse
        • D2. Moritz Ludwig of Hesse
        • D3. August of Hesse
    • B5. Angela Katharina Edith Alexandra von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG; * July 4, 1939 in Nuremberg; † August 29, 1991 in Munich; ∞ (August 29, 1959 in Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland (civ.), October 17, 1959 in Stein (rel.), 0 | 0 1986) Heinrich von Kölichen, born August 18, 1926 in Kittletztreben; † June 6, 1991 in Munich
      • C1. Nadine von Kölichen ; * July 24, 1969; ∞ (1999) Christoph Pöppinghaus
      • C2. Stephan von Kölichen
      • C3. Roland von Kölichen
    • B6. Anton-Wolfgang Lothar Andreas von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG (one of 3 main heirs - and chairman of the board); * June 7, 1941 in Bamberg; † January 21, 2016 in Houston, Texas; ∞ I. (June 16, 1986 in Las Vegas, 0 | 0 1986) Carla Mathilde Lamesch, * July 15, 1942 in Luxembourg; † May 18, 2010 in Little Rock; ∞ II. (December 12, 1987 in Stein) Mary Hogan, born November 25, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri
      • C1. (I.) brought into marriage , Charles Alexander von Faber-Castell ; * 1980 in Zurich; ∞ (September 30, 2011 in Stein (civ.), May 26, 2012 in Stein (rel.)) Melissa Eliyesil, * 1984 in Istanbul
        • D1. Leonhard Alexander Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell
        • D2. Carla Victoria Adelaida from Faber-Castell
      • C2. (II.) Katharina Elisabeth von Faber-Castell
      • C3. (II.) Victoria by Faber-Castell
      • C4. (II.) Sarah von Faber-Castell
    • B7. Andreas Wilhelm Christian Eberhard von Faber-Castell Co-owner of Faber-Castell AG; * June 1, 1946 in Dürrenhembach; ∞ (January 6, 1973 in Princeton, New Jersey) Virginia Ruth Porter, born January 31, 1947 in Trenton, New Jersey
      • C1. Natalie Grace Anna Katharina von Faber-Castell ; * 1976 in Sydney; ∞ (October 8, 2005 in Stein) Salvatore Lacaria, born December 16, 1968
      • C2. Alea Virginia Andrea Christina from Faber-Castell ; * 1978 in Sydney; ∞ (January 8, 2006 in Sydney) Brian Martin McGabhan
      • C3. Anton Andreas Wilhelm Christian Alexander von Faber-Castell ; * 1983 in Sydney; ∞ (May 16, 2014 (civ.), May 17, 2014 (rel.)) Kate Stahl
    • B8. Christian Albrecht Bernhard Konstantin von Faber-Castell co-owner of Faber-Castell AG; * May 17, 1950 in Konstanz; ∞ (October 11, 1987 in Küsnacht) Barbla Mani, born November 4, 1951 in Thusis, Switzerland
      • C1. Alexandra from Faber-Castell
    • B9. Katharina Lucia Ricarda Emilie von Faber-Castell (natural daughter of Paul Sacher , entrepreneur ( Hoffmann-La Roche ) and Katharina von Faber-Castell, née Speaker of Bernegg); * August 12, 1952 in Zurich; ∞ (August 25, 1989 in Zurich) Bruno Guglielmetti, born February 12, 1951 in Zurich
    • B10. Cornelia von Faber-Castell (natural daughter of Paul Sacher and Katharina von Faber-Castell, née Speaker von Bernegg); * August 27, 1961 in Zurich; ∞ I. (August 30, 1991 in Küsnacht, 0 | 0 2006) Serge Perriard, born July 11, 1961 in Zurich; ∞ II. (September 2, 2011 in Küsnacht) Claudio Maira, born November 7, 1974 in Wadenswil

Cinematic editing

In 2019 Claudia Garde filmed the story of Ottilie von Faber-Castell as the company heiress.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Xaver Frühbeis: Ottilie von Faber marries Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen. SWR, February 28, 1989, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ Christian Schiele: The company history of Faber-Castell BR from October 1, 32011. Retrieved on July 4, 2020.
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  11. ↑ Count Andy steps down at Faber-Castell. Stationery News, October 4, 2017, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Der Spiegel: Special Revolution. Der Spiegel, March 23, 1987, accessed April 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Johanna Säuberlich: A fairytale wedding at Stein Castle. Nürnberger Nachrichten, July 9, 2007, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Hesse prince marries pencil queen . May 19, 2003.
  15. ↑ Rüdiger Joppien: A Rhenish silver treasure - jewelry and equipment from private ownership. Art Museum Cologne.
  16. ^ Pedigree of Caroline, Countess von Faber-Castell, * 1961 - Geneall.net .
  17. ↑ Patrick von Faber-Castell is planning luxury apartments on 5000 square meters .
  18. ^ Netty Royal. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Mary Countess of Faber-Castell: In the name of the Patriarch . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).
  20. ^ Leonhard Alexander Anton-Wolfgang, Count von Faber-Castell, * 2016 | Geneall.net. Retrieved on April 27, 2018 (German).
  21. ^ In- house newspaper Faber-Castell. 2017, accessed April 27, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Victoria, Countess von Faber-Castell, * 1996 - Geneall.net .
  23. ↑ Natalie, Countess von Faber-Castell, * 1976 - Geneall.net .
  24. ↑ Abendzeitung Germany: Wedding of the celebrities: Faber-Castell with a kiss for Kate - Abendzeitung Munich .
  25. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article649913/14-Millionen-Dollar-als-Tageslohn.html
  26. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article451994/Ueber-Paul-Sacher-diesen-Animator-der-Musikwelt.html
  27. ↑ Ottilie von Faber-Castell .