Ludwig Ferdinand Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

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Ludwig Ferdinand Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born January 25, 1942 in Osterwick ) is a German forest owner and entrepreneur.

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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg comes from the former noble family of the Sayn-Wittgenstein family . He was the fourth child of Ludwig Ferdinand Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1910–1943) and his wife Friederike Juliane born. Princess zu Salm-Horstmar (1912–2000) was born. His paternal grandparents were Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1882–1925) and Madeleine nee. Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1895–1976), on the maternal side Prince Otto II. Zu Salm-Horstmar (1867–1941) and Rosa geb. Countess of Solms-Baruth (1884–1945).

After graduating from high school in Schondorf am Ammersee , he studied forestry and business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

In 1971 he obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Insead Business School in Fontainebleau / France. After a job at the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas , he became an independent management consultant from 1974. From 1981 he led his now extinct company Louis Sayn Direktvertrieb as managing partner before taking over and managing the Ditzrod forest estate. From 1966 to 1986 he was deputy chairman of the administrative board of Fürst Wittgenstein'schen Waldbesitzergesellschaft GbR , from which he has since left. Since 2014 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management .

After hurricane Kyrill in 2007, which also laid down parts of his managed forest, Wittgenstein dealt with wind energy and invested in wind power plants.

Wittgenstein took over management with the founding of Wittgenstein New Energy Holding GmbH (WNE Group), which deals with consulting, planning, implementation and operation of wind power plants. The external presentation of the company and its managing director was partly taken over by Marcus Ewald, chairman of the federal executive committee of the young economic council and guest of the economic council of the CDU .

The WNE Group's first wind farm in the Bad Laasphe municipality, better known as the Hesselbach wind farm , was opened in September 2013 with six turbines. In 2014 and 2017, two more wind turbines were added. The hub height is around 140 m, the rotor diameters are 112 and 126 meters, respectively.

In the meantime, a total of ten wind turbines of the Vestas brand , type V 112 and V 126 , have been built by WNE in the districts of Banfe and Hesselbach . Two more are being planned.

Four further Vestas V 112 wind turbines are planned in the Volkholz and Benfe area with a hub height of 119 meters, but will meet with resistance from the population living there as well as from the Bundeswehr site in Erndtebrück , where there is a radar system for air surveillance.

An inheritance litigation that has been pending at the Bad Berleburg District Court since 2017 has caused quite a stir . Here, the entrepreneur considers himself entitled to interpret the 74-year-old will of his uncle, Gustav Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, in his own way and to assert his own claims. Here, however, he was defeated in the first instance decision. In the second instance, the Hamm Higher Regional Court confirmed the decision of the AG Bad Berleburg on July 23, 2020 (Az. 10 W 84/19).

family

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg married the Swede Yvonne born in 1975. Countess Wachtmeister af Johannishus (* 1951).

He lives with his family in Bad Laasphe . The marriage had four children, including the journalist Anna von Bayern (* 1978) and the actor August Wittgenstein (* 1981).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Dickel : Family tree of the mediatized house Sayn and Wittgenstein . Wernigerode 1907, The Berleburg Line, Plate 6 . Unchanged reprint of the 1907 edition, Heimat-Verlag und Antiquariat, Angelika Wied, Bad Laasphe 2009, No. 9/100.
  2. ^ Commercial register AG Siegen, HRA 7130, company expired.
  3. ↑ Marcus Ewald, Ewald & Rössing GmbH & Co. KG: Sustainability in practice: Prince von Sayn Wittgenstein invests in the future . Large-format advertisement in the form of a report in the Frankfurter Rundschau on November 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ewald & Rössing GmbH & Co. KG, Marcus Ewald In: Focus online  from October 17, 2017: Large-format advertisement in the form of a report: The legacy of Wittgenstein and wind energy.
  5. ↑ Information according to the Wittgenstein New Energy Holding website; last accessed on January 14, 2019, 2:10 p.m.
  6. ↑ Lars-Peter Dickel: Species protection endangers wind power plans in Benfe . Westfalenpost from January 9, 2013
  7. ↑ Eberhard Demtröder: Benfe fights against four wind turbines. Westfalenpost dated June 30, 2016.
  8. ↑ Lars-Peter Dickel: Bundeswehr is considering lawsuit against wind turbines at Benfe. Westfalenpost from January 13, 2017
  9. ↑ Wind turbines on the Benfer back. Request for appeal . Siegener newspaper from January 10, 2018.
  10. ^ Lars-Peter Dickel: Family dispute in the Princely House occupies the district court. The amount in dispute is estimated at half a billion euros. The background is a dispute over a 76 year old will. Westfalenpost dated February 5, 2019, page PBB 1.
  11. ^ AG Bad Berleburg (Az. 2 Lw 3/17)
  12. ↑ Westfalenpost (PBB) dated May 7, 2019: First decision about royal inheritance .
  13. ↑ NRW Justice: OLG Hamm: OLG Hamm confirms the decision of the Agricultural Court Bad Berleburg in an inheritance dispute. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Ludwig Ferdinand Prince zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest owner and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterwick