Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg

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Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg

Franz Wilhelm Karl Maria Gabriel Schenk Freiherr von Stauffenberg (born August 14, 1878 in Rississen ; † November 9, 1950 in Riedlingen ) was a German landowner ( Wilflingen , Rississen, Geislingen (Zollernalbkreis) ), entrepreneur and politician. He belonged to the Swabian noble family of the Stauffenberg taverns . All living bearers of the name Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg descend from him.

family

He was the tenth and youngest child and the only surviving child of Baron Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg (born August 3, 1834 in Würzburg; † June 2, 1901 in Rississen) and Countess Ida von Geldern-Egmont (* 16. October 1837 in Turnstein ; † March 27, 1887 in Pallanza ).

Franz was married (⚭ May 27, 1903 in Bonn Minster) to Countess Huberta Berta Wolff-Metternich (* July 24, 1882 in Satzvey ; † January 21, 1952 in Husum ).

They had five children:

  • Mechthild Ida Huberta Marie (born March 5, 1904 in Munich, † 1991 in Hugstetten );
  • Werner (born May 10, 1905 in Stuttgart; † 196?);
  • Marie Elisabeth (born July 18, 1906 in Rississen, † March 18, 1907 in Satzvey);
  • Friedrich (born May 19, 1908 in Rississen, † March 25, 1982 in Munich);
  • Hans Christoph (born October 7, 1911 in Rississen, † November 2005 in Munich).

biography

Baron Franz von Stauffenberg attended grammar school in Augsburg and, as a pupil of the royal Bavarian pagerie, the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich (Abitur 1896). From 1897 he studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , from 1898 at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 1901 in Bonn-Poppelsdorf and at the University of Hohenheim . Between 1902 and 1903 he was also enrolled in the political science faculty of the University of Tübingen for forest sciences. During his military service he became a lieutenant in the reserve of the heavy riders, then a cavalry officer (today: captain ) and finally battalion commander in the Royal Bavarian 20th Infantry Regiment "Prince Franz" . He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and was paralyzed on one side due to a serious wound in 1918. He was retired as a lieutenant colonel . D. dismissed. After the First World War, he lived mainly in Wilflingen .

He was co-founder and chairman of the Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke OEW and co-founder of the Stuttgart Milchhof and Omira Ravensburg .

Political career

Until the end of the Empire, Franz von Stauffenberg was a knightly member of the First Chamber of the State Parliament in Stuttgart and during the Weimar Republic a member of the Reichstag from May 1924 to May 1928 and from September 1930 to March 1933 ( DNVP ; constituency 31 Württemberg). From November 1933 he belonged to the Reichstag on the Württemberg election list of the NSDAP .

Stauffenberg was a member of the Gäa , the important right-wing propaganda center in southern Germany founded in 1922.

Honors

literature

  • Gerd Wunder: The taverns from Stauffenberg, Mueller and Graeff ; Stuttgart, 1972
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 888 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1895/96
  2. ↑ Repertory for the holdings 40–42, 258–260, 364, 577–578 The Tübingen students 1818–1918 in chronological order Older student files of the Academic Rector's Office Edited by the University Archives Tübingen Tübingen 1978–2004, 1902. http: //www.ub -archiv.uni-tuebingen.de/w646/w646fram.htm
personal data
SURNAME Schenk von Stauffenberg, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donor Freiherr von Stauffenberg, Franz Wilhelm Karl Maria Gabriel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners, entrepreneurs and politicians (DNVP, WBWB, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Cracks
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1950
Place of death Riedlingen