Peter W. von Weymarn

Peter W. von Weymarn , with full baptismal name: Peter Wilhelm Alexander Konstantin von Weymarn (born July 2, 1936 in Reval / Estonia ), was the manager and managing director of the Heyl winery in Herrnsheim between 1968 and 1998 . The astro-physicist was president of the Association of German Prädikatsweingüter (VDP) between 1972 and 1978 and co-founder of the Federal Association of Ecological Viticulture eV (today Ecovin ) in 1985 .

family

Von Weymarn comes from a Baltic German noble family. The family had to leave Estonia as a result of the Hitler-Stalin pact in November 1939. After a stopover in the so-called Warthegau during the Second World War, he fled to Lower Saxony in 1945. After working in the districts of Hameln-Pyrmont and Stuttgart, he studied in Heidelberg and Zurich. Von Weymarn is married and has three children with his wife Isa.

Professional career

After completing his studies, von Weymarn worked as an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg , but after several years of absence due to illness, he switched to the manager of the winery that his wife had inherited in 1968. As a critic of the Wine Law of 1971, he vehemently appealed against the planned dissolution of the (then still) "Association of German Natural Wine Auctioneers" and was subsequently elected President of the VDP, to whom he gave essential impetus. During his presidency the "Mainzer Weinbörse" was launched.

Individual evidence

Web links

Freiherr Heyl winery in Herrnsheim

personal data
SURNAME	Weymarn, Peter W. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German winemaker
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval, Estonia

[1] The "Mathildenhof" in Nierstein am Rhein (Nierstein History Association)

[2] The long way to natural wine (Tagesspiegel, August 29, 2010)