Ottilie from Faber-Castell

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Sophie Ottilie von Faber-Castell (born September 6, 1877 in Stein near Nuremberg as Sophie Ottilie von Faber , † September 28, 1944 in Nuremberg) was a German entrepreneur and owner of Faber-Castell .

origin

Her parents were Wilhelm Freiherr von Faber (1851-1893) and his wife, Bertha Faber (* 1856), born in New York. She still had two sisters: Sophie (* 1878) was married to the Bavarian Lieutenant General Karl von Hirschberg and Hedwig (1882–1937) to the Prussian major Wolfgang Fürst zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1875–1930).

Life

As the granddaughter of Lothar von Faber , Ottilie inherited extensive property from the family foundation in 1896 after the early death of her father Wilhelm. The AW Faber company was initially transferred to Lothar's widow Ottilie senior. In 1898 Ottilie married Count Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen , whom her grandmother Ottilie senior made managing director and partner in 1900. This gave the company the name Faber-Castell . With the death of Ottilie senior, the company passed into the hands of granddaughter Ottilie; Her husband remained the manager. Ottilie divorced Alexander in 1917, making him the owner of the company. In 1918 she married Philipp von Brand zu Neidstein. She had five children with Alexander. Their youngest child and second son, Roland Graf von Faber-Castell (1905–1978), was the last sole owner of the Faber-Castell company .

progeny

The Chinese honorary citizen Hubertus Graf von Faber-Castell comes from her son's first marriage to Alix-May von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf , from the owner family of the Oppenheim banking dynasty . This brought commercial television to China in a joint venture with the Chinese state . The Chinese state later bought the count's 50% stake. Since then, Chinese public television has been run entirely by the state. Anton-Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell , another grandson of Ottilie, but from his second marriage to Katharina Sprecher von Bernegg , managed the Faber-Castell company in the eighth generation for over 40 years. In this context he bought many shares from siblings in order to gain sole decision-making power.

reception

In 1998, Asta Scheib dedicated the novel biography An ornament in her house to the entrepreneur . The story of Ottilie von Faber-Castell .

In November 2018 the musical Die Generation Ottilie - a musical-like biography celebrated its premiere.

In 2019, Faber-Castell's life was processed in a film adaptation by ARD under the title Ottilie von Faber-Castell - A courageous woman based on Scheib's novel.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board at faber-castell.de, accessed on September 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Tribe list
  3. ↑ Biographies of Ottilie and Alexander von Faber-Castell on the Faber-Castell Aktiengesellschaft website , accessed on September 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ [2]
  6. ^ Book at Verlag Rowohlt, accessed on September 15, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Ottilie von Faber-Castell": Biopic turns out to be a gloomy women's drama , accessed on September 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ http://www.ottilie-musical.de
  9. ↑ Handelsblatt: How emancipation moved into the pen dynasty , accessed on September 14, 2019.
  10. ↑ Film at TVinfo, accessed on September 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Faber-Castell, Ottilie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faber-Castell, Sophie Ottilie von (full name); Faber, Sophie Ottilie von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Stein near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1944
Place of death Nuremberg