Leo Imperial Count of Lüttichau

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Leo Georg Johann Guido Reichsgraf von Lüttichau (born March 30, 1882 in Darmstadt , † February 10, 1965 in Möckmühl ) was a German Reichsgraf and landowner.

Gravestone of Olga von Ellrichshausen and Leo von Lüttichau

He owned Ober-Prausnitz, Laasnig, Hohendorf, Pömbsen, Reisicht , Sandwaldau and Tschirbsdorf in Silesia. On June 1, 1910, he married Olga Auguste Sarah Mathilde Alexandrine Melanie Julie Bertha Freiin von Ellrichshausen in Berleburg.

He bought the Niederhabe and Hoheacht farms in South Africa (20,600 ha), and after the Second World War they were auctioned off. In 1950 the couple moved to South Africa to have mortgages paid out on the farms with whose help they acquired the Goedehoop estate and made a fresh start there. They had three sons.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.autonomie-und-chaos.de/images/stories/pdf/auc-51-familiengeschichte.pdf#283