Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg (association official)
Friedrich Christian Reichsgraf von Plettenberg (born September 15, 1882 in Hovestadt , North Rhine-Westphalia , † September 7, 1972 in Bretzenheim , Rhineland-Palatinate ) was a German winery owner and winegrowing association politician.
Life
He comes from the Westphalian noble family von Plettenberg . After graduating from high school and studying law in Geneva and Paris , von Plettenberg was an active officer from 1904 to 1918 and fought in the First World War . In 1911 he married Elisabeth Puricelli (1892–1984). She came from a wealthy industrial family who, among other things, operated a steelworks in Rheinböllen and also invested in local viticulture. He took over his wife's winery from her grandfather Hermann Puricelli (1822–1897), or her father Paul Puricelli (1862 Mainz-NN), and from 1912 expanded it into a model business. Soon he was considered one of the most important wine-growing pioneers on the Nahe with his vineyard Reichsgraf von Plettenberg . The vineyards cover 35 hectares of vineyards, including the wines of the individual layers Kreuznacher Hinkelstein, Kreuznacher Kapellenpfad, Kreuznacher Sankt Martin, Kreuznacher St. Martin, Roxheimer Berg, Schloss Plettenberg, Winzenheimer Rosenheck. With great charisma and zest for action, he has given the wine export, especially the Nahe wine, a lot of impetus. Until 1933 he was chairman of the Prussian Viticulture Association. His relative August Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser (1885–1940) was also active in this association . After the end of the war, Reichsgraf von Plettenberg was one of the founders of the farmers 'and winegrowers' association on Nahe and Glan and was its chairman from 1947 to 1953. During this time he was also a board member of the German Viticulture Association .
Friedrich Christian Count von Plettenberg lived with his wife Elisabeth Puricelli and his three sons in the castle-like, now listed Villa Plettenberg-Puricelli, a two and a half storey stucco building in late classical embossed neo at the bottom of the farming estate Puricelli / von Plettenberg in Bretzenheim an der Nahe.
Successor generations in the management of the winery
- 1948–1985 Wolfgang Reichsgraf von Plettenberg and Egbert Reichsgraf von Plettenberg (born October 15, 1917 , † November 1, 1995 in Bad Kreuznach , Rhineland-Palatinate), (both sons of Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg)
- 1985-2015 Egbert Reichsgraf von Plettenberg (born September 26, 1953 in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate), (son of the above Egbert Reichsgraf von Plettenberg)
- 2015-present Falk Albrecht Reichsgraf von Plettenberg (born August 4, 1983 in Osnabrück , Lower Saxony), (son of the last Egbert Reichsgraf von Plettenberg)
Web links
- The Puricellis (PDF; 14 kB)
- Hovestadt Palace, the birthplace of Friedrich Christian Reichsgraf von Plettenberg (1882-1972)
- Brief portrait of Bretzenheim on SWR television
- Pictures of the Villa Pletteberg-Puricelli
- The history of the Reichsgraf von Plettenberg winery, accessed on November 21, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plettenberg, Friedrich Christian von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plettenberg, Friedrich Christian Reichsgraf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German winery owner and winegrowing association politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hovestadt , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th September 1972 |
| Place of death | Bretzenheim , Rhineland-Palatinate |