Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern

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Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern (2012)

Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold Prince of Hohenzollern (born  April 20, 1952 in Sigmaringen ) is a German entrepreneur and since 2010 head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , the Swabian line of the Hohenzollern . In public he appears under the historical nobility title of Prince of Hohenzollern .

biography

origin

Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern is the eldest son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern (1924–2010) and Margarita, born Princess zu Leiningen (1932–1996). His family ruled the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen until 1849 , whose residence was in Sigmaringen .

education

From 1958 to 1968 he attended elementary school and high school in Sigmaringen. In 1969 he moved to the Institute on the Rosenberg in St. Gallen , Switzerland , which he left in 1973 with the Abitur. After his military service in the German Armed Forces, which he served as a regular soldier from 1973 to 1975 (most recently as captain of the reserve ), he studied business administration from 1975 to 1980 at the university in Freiburg, Switzerland, in Üechtland . He then completed an apprenticeship as a banker in Stuttgart, Frankfurt and New York and obtained a licentiate (lic. Rer. Pol.) From the University of Bern .

Employment

He has been working in the family business since 1984 and took over the business of the company as an authorized representative before his father's death in 2010 .

Von Hohenzollern is the general representative of the Fürst von Hohenzollern group of companies based in Sigmaringen and a partner in Zollern GmbH and Co. KG , one of the largest employers in the Sigmaringen district . As the sole shareholder and chairman of the advisory board of the Prinz von Hohenzollern Capital GmbH & Co. KG, he owns a number of company investments. Furthermore, he is an important person in the tourism concept of the Bavarian Forest through the Arber mountain railway . He held advisory and supervisory board mandates in various banks; He is a member of the Advisory Board of Südwestbank , since 2007 a member of the Advisory Board of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) and since 2008 a member of the Regional Advisory Board of Commerzbank Southwest .

Private life

Karl Friedrich Prinz von Hohenzollern married the eight years younger Alexandra Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg (born May 25, 1960), daughter of Clemens Anton Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the Clementine Elisabeth, née Countess Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht on May 17, 1985 in Sigmaringen civil and on June 16 in the Beuron monastery church. The marriage resulted in a son and three daughters:

  • Alexander Friedrich Antonius Johannes (born March 16, 1987 in New York City, USA)
  • Philippa Marie Carolina Isabelle (born November 2, 1988 in New York City, USA)
  • Flaminia Pia Eilika Stephanie (born January 9, 1992 in Munich)
  • Antonia Elisabeth Georgina Tatiana (born June 22, 1995 in Munich)

The family lived at Krauchenwies Castle until the couple separated in 2006 . Afterwards von Hohenzollern lived in the Wilhelmsbau of Sigmaringen Castle on Karl-Anton-Platz. The marriage was divorced on January 21, 2010. Alexandra kept the married name Princess von Hohenzollern.

Landhaus Josefslust

On July 17, 2010, von Hohenzollern married the Hamburg businesswoman Katharina Maria de Zomer (* 1959) in Umkirch near Freiburg, who has been called Princess von Hohenzollern since then . Umkirch Castle was inherited by his father from the Romanian King Carol I , also from the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. After the death of their father in 2010, the couple moved into the previously renovated Landhaus Josefslust near Sigmaringen.

Hobbies

Von Hohenzollern is an enthusiastic jazz musician (singer, saxophonist and guitarist). While studying economics in Switzerland, he attended the Bern Swiss Jazz School once a week . Until 2016 he appeared regularly as Charly with his band "Charly and the Jivemates", with whom he also released two CDs for Satin Doll Productions ; he recorded another album with the Frieder Berlin Trio .

He is the owner of several historic vehicles and the patron of vintage car tours of the Hohenzollern Holiday Region .

Honorary positions and awards

Von Hohenzollern has been a member of the federal executive committee of the German Economic Council of the CDU since June 2007 . He is also a member of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs and the Family Businesses Foundation.

He is a board member of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Albstadt-Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences. V. In the tradition of his family, he also supported the Archbishop's Children's Home Haus Nazareth in Sigmaringen and the Tannheim children's cancer aftercare clinic and is a member of the Mariaberg e. V. He is the deputy chairman of the Prince Lennart von Hohenzollern Foundation. The foundation was established in 2006 by Princess Nathalie von Hohenzollern, the wife of his brother Albrecht, to raise funds for research in the field of molecular pediatrics . He also organized and participated in musical benefit events. He is the deputy chairman of the Association of Friends of the Archabbey of St. Martin e. V.

On October 13, 2009, the Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, Heribert Rech , presented him with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Villa Reitzenstein in Stuttgart .

Self-image

Of Hohenzollern stepped up in 2010 under the historic Erstgeburtstitel " Prince " and called for his father's death on 16 September 2010 "Chef of the princely house of Hohenzollern " with by the Weimar Constitution abolished (1919) traditional title " prince " (Informal : Your Highness). In an article in the Schwäbische Zeitung on February 26, 2011 on the topic of names, von Hohenzollern stated: “I do not consider the legal regulation on names to be relevant if the citizens accept the title. In Sigmaringen this is how the vast majority thinks. I see the title as a job title. "

In the course of the negotiations of the Brandenburg-Prussian Hohenzollern about the return of works of art and the use of property expropriated without compensation, Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern pointed out the difference between the House of Hohenzollern and the House of Prussia in February 2020. "The Hohenzollern are us and nobody else," he and his brother Albrecht von Hohenzollern stated to the Schwäbische Zeitung . The compensation claims concern claims of the Prussian relatives "in contrast to the Sigmaringer Hohenzollern as a noble house without major possessions".

See also

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Sigmaringen . In: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 41-62.

Web links

Commons : Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The family name is officially Prince of Hohenzollern according to a registration information from September 20, 2010 . In some sources, the form Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , which has no longer been used since 1869, is incorrectly used.
  2. ^ Prince Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on thepeerage.com , accessed on July 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Michael Hescheler: Name: In the passport the prince is called Prinz. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of February 26, 2011, accessed on May 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b S. D. Karl Friedrich Hereditary Prince Von Hohenzollern Lic. Rer. Pole. In: Bloombergs Businessweek, accessed June 13, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b c Hohenzollern marriage ends before the local court. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of February 4, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2011.
  6. ^ Members of the advisory board at www.suedwestbank.de
  7. ↑ LBBW: Annual Report 2007 ( Memento from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 13, 2010) to 2016 Annual Report (accessed on April 24, 2019)
  8. ↑ Commerzbank: Annual Report 2008 ( Memento from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 13, 2010) to 2018: Regional Advisory Board Southwest Member Directory 2018 (PDF) (accessed on April 24, 2019)
  9. ↑ a b Hereditary Princess wears a white veil. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from July 19, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2011.
  10. ↑ Princess invites the board of trustees to her country house. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from July 19, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2011.
  11. ↑ Werner Semmler: The real television wedding was followed by a real princely wedding: Karl Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern married in Umkirch . In: Umkircher Nachrichten of July 19, 2010.
  12. ↑ website of Charly and the Jivemates
  13. ↑ Kurt Loescher (loe): With vintage cars through Hohenzollern. In: Südkurier from June 20, 2011.
  14. ↑ Federal Executive on the website of the CDU Economic Council
  15. ^ Websites of the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Albstadt-Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  16. ↑ People in Mariaberg. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from February 25, 2010.
  17. ^ Benefit concert. Golden society celebrates in the golden hall. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from May 15, 2010.
  18. ^ Website of the Association of Friends of the Archabbey of St. Martin e. V. ( Memento of November 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2010.
  19. ↑ Michael Hecheler: "The Hohenzollern are just us" . In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier , February 8, 2020. Accessed February 9, 2020. 
predecessor Office successor
Friedrich Wilhelm Head of the former Princely House of Hohenzollern
since 2010 		-
personal data
SURNAME Hohenzollern, Karl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenzollern, Karl Friedrich Prinz von (full name); Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold Prince von (birth name); Hohenzollern, Karl Friedrich Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, head of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen company
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigmaringen