Ferdinand von Bismarck

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Ferdinand Herbord Ivar Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (born November 22, 1930 in London - † July 23, 2019 in Reinbek ) was a lawyer and head of the former Princely House of Bismarck-Schönhausen . As such, he called himself Prince von Bismarck since 1975 .

Life

Ferdinand von Bismarck was born in London as the second of six children of the diplomat Otto Fürst von Bismarck (1897–1975) and his Swedish wife, Ann Mari Tengbom (1907–1999). He was a great-grandson of the first German Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898).

After completing school in Sweden and Germany and graduating from the Schloss Salem boarding school , von Bismarck initially worked on a coffee farm in Brazil .

After training at a bank, Bismarck studied law and economics in Cologne and Freiburg , which he completed with a legal traineeship. After completing his legal clerkship, he took the assessor exam in Freiburg in 1960.

He began his professional career in 1961 as a lawyer on the Central Administrative Council of the EEC in Brussels . He later settled in Hamburg as a lawyer . In the early 1970s, von Bismarck established himself as a real estate entrepreneur and was the owner of the Marbella Hill Club and the “Park Palace Complex” in Monte-Carlo . He lived at Friedrichsruh Palace and managed his family's inheritance. This includes among other things the 6000 hectare Sachsenwald as well as the Fürstlich von Bismarck'sche Brennerei GmbH in Friedrichsruh. Ferdinand von Bismarck was chairman of the advisory board of the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation and a member of the advisory board of Dresdner Bank .

Princely coat of arms Bismarck after the diploma of 1873

From August 1960 he was with the one from Belgium coming Comtesse married Elisabeth Lippens (born 1939), a daughter of Comte Léon Lippens . His wife's grandfather, Comte Maurice August Lippens (1875–1956), as governor general , was responsible for the colonization of the Congo for Belgium and was a minister under King Leopold III. The marriage had four children: Carl-Eduard (* 1961), Gottfried (1962–2007), Gregor (* 1964) and Vanessa (* 1971).

In 1975 he became head of the Bismarck house and from 1994 he became involved in the " Otto von Bismarck Foundation ". In this role he published the book “Let's Put Germany Back in the Saddle” . He is reminiscent of his great-grandfather Otto von Bismarck, who said in 1871: “Let's put Germany in the saddle, so to speak! Riding will be able to do it ”.

He died on July 23, 2019 in the St. Adolf-Stift in Reinbek.

politics

In contrast to his father Otto and his son Carl-Eduard, von Bismarck stayed away from active politics at federal or state level; but he had been a member of the CDU since the 1970s and was local chairman in Aumühle for several years . Bismarck was considered conservative and was the patron of the Bismarckbund e. V.

In 2008, von Bismarck drew attention to himself with a circular sent to a large number of private households, in which he complained "out of serious concern for Germany" that "Germany is drifting to the left" because the Left Party in the elections in Bremen , Hesse , Lower Saxony and Hamburg each took the five percent hurdle and entered the state parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/ferdinand-von-bismarck-gestorben-todesfall-tot-aumuehle-schloss-friedrichsruh-sachsenwald-1146728
  2. ↑ Article 109 WRV ( Weimar Constitution of August 11, 1919) stipulates that the privileges or disadvantages under public law of birth or status are to be abolished. Denominations of nobility are only [no longer] part of the name and may no longer be awarded. In the case of the descendants of the former Princely House of Bismarck , all family members have since then been given the surname Graf or Countess von Bismarck . The name designation Fürst von Bismarck , which goes back to the no longer existing and inheritable primogeniture nobility , using the first-born title “Fürst” as part of the name (only for the heads of the family) is in such cases according to a judgment of the Federal Administrative Court of March 11, 1966 (Az. VII C 85.63 and StAZ 1966, p. 344) is irrelevant in terms of personal status , but is predominantly used in non-official contexts, similar to the provisions of the pseudonym, as a form of courtesy based on the tradition of the family, both in literature and in society.
  3. ↑ Ferdinand von Bismarck in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ Star Portrait in GQ ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Ferdinand von Bismarck. In: Munzinger Online: People - International Biographical Archive. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Fürst Bismarck - Imprint. In: www.fuerstbismarck-kornbrand.de. Fürstlich von Bismarck'sche Brennerei GmbH, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  7. ^ GHdA , Princely Houses , Volume XV, Volume 114 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lhn 1997, p. 567.
  8. ↑ Heads of the economy in the Wirtschaftswoche
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel Online 22/1997 Blood and Iron
  10. ↑ Ferdinand von Bismarck: A lance for my great-grandfather - patron of the Bismarck Association ( Memento from November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Excerpt from Bismarck's 2008 circular with satirical comments in Werner Jurga's internet newspaper
personal data
SURNAME Bismarck, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bismarck, Ferdinand Herbord Ivar von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2019
Place of death Reinbek