Philipp Franz zu Guttenberg

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Philipp Franz Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born May 10, 1973 in Mannheim ) is a German - Austrian farmer and forest manager . He is the owner of two forest operations in Germany and Austria and has been representing forest interests for many years: Among other things, he was president of the Working Group of German Forest Owners' Associations (AGDW - Die Waldeigentümer eV), chairman of the Forum Natur (AFN) and vice-president of the European Forest Owners Association (CEPF).

family

Philipp Franz Maria Antoninus Friedrich Wilhelm Emanuel Johannes Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg comes from the same Frankish noble family Guttenberg . He is the son of the conductor and landowner Georg Enoch zu Guttenberg and his first wife Christiane Countess zu Eltz . His older brother is the former Federal Minister of Economics and Federal Minister of Defense , Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg . Philipp zu Guttenberg married The Honorable Alexandra Louisa Macdonald of Macdonald (* 1973). She comes from a extended family of the Scottish nobility and is the oldest of four children of Godfrey Macdonald, 8th Baron MacDonald of Slate, the High Chief of the Scottish MacDonald - clans , and his wife Claire, a well-known chef and cookbook author.

Life

Guttenberg attended the Gymnasium Schloss Neubeuert im Chiemgau and graduated from high school there . He then studied forestry and ecology at the Scottish universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen . During this time he met his future wife. Guttenberg settled with her in the small village of Radmer in Styria and acquired a forestry company there.

Philipp and Alexandra zu Guttenberg are parents of two sons (* 2004, * 2005) and a daughter (* 2009). He has Austrian citizenship in addition to German and joined the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). In 2008 he brought the family castle in Upper Franconia and the land into a private foundation based in Austria. Today he runs the family business.

Offices

Philipp zu Guttenberg has been committed to the interests of private and municipal forest owners since 2005, first in Austria, then in Germany. From 2005 to 2010 he was President of the Association of Land & Forest Companies Styria. For several years he represented u. a. as a member of the executive committee of the interest association of Styrian agricultural and forestry companies in Austria. Since 2009 he has also been a member of the board of the Bavarian Forest Owners Association. From 2010 to 2019 he was President of the Working Group of German Forest Owners' Associations (AGDW - Die Waldeigentümer) and represented the interests of around two million private, municipal and corporate forest owners. In January 2019, zu Guttenberg resigned from this position for private reasons. Among his predecessors in this office are relatives: Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , his uncle, was the chief forest lobbyist from 1988 to 1992, Philipp von Boeselager , the resistance fighter and father of his uncle Albrecht, led the association for 20 years from 1968 to 1988.

He was also a member of the executive committee of the German Forestry Council and a member of the board of the “Platform Forest & Wood”.

Since 2008 he has been Vice President of the Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF), the central association of European forest owners. As such, he was delegated to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 .

Guttenberg was a member of the competence team of the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU top candidate Julia Klöckner for the state elections on March 13, 2016. The competence team was presented by the top candidate on February 2 in Mainz.

He is committed to sustainable and multifunctional forestry, which goes back to the Saxon chief miner Hans Carl von Carlowitz , and is committed to the sustainable raw material wood against the background of climate protection z. B. in the construction and building sector to focus more on. Timber construction in Austria, Switzerland and Sweden are the model for him. In shaping the energy transition in Germany, he advocated that wood as an energy source should play a greater role. He demanded higher compensation for forest owners who are expropriated because of the construction of power lines.

Awards

Others

On behalf of his brother Karl-Theodor, Philipp received the 61st order against the seriousness of the animal in the 2011 carnival and gave a much-noticed hand-made speech in which he referred to himself as "plagiarism", alluding to his brother's plagiarism affair . In 2012 he was made an honorary member of the AKV .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Koch: Our Guttenberg is called Philipp: The brother of the German political star in the FORMAT portrait. In: format.at of October 7, 2009, accessed on March 13, 2011.
  2. ^ Nadia Weiss: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg: 'I'm half an Austrian'. In: krone.at of January 29, 2011, accessed on March 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ Pedigree: Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. based on the Genealogical Handbook of the Aristocracy Enrolled in Bavaria, Volume 17. Neustadt, Aisch, 1988, accessed on April 24, 2011.
  4. ^ Godfrey Macdonald, 8th Baron Macdonald in thepeerage.com.
  5. ↑ Information on Lord Macdonald of Macdonald , highcouncilofclandonald.org (English); Retrieved February 23, 2011
  6. ↑ http://www.bayer-waldbesitzerverband.de/praesidium.html
  7. ↑ http://www.waldeigentuemer.de
  8. ↑ https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/mittelstand/familienunternehmer/philipp-zu-guttenberg-der-waldpraesident/20521342.html
  9. ↑ Von der Marwitz new president of the AGDW. In: politik-kommunikation.de. Politics & Communication , February 1, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .
  10. ^ NN: Philipp Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg new President of the AGDW  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , AGDW press release No. 5/10 of March 17, 2010; Retrieved December 28, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.waldbesitzerverbaende.de  
  11. ↑ Information about the Presidium of the Bavarian Forest Owners Association , bayer-waldbesitzerverband.de; Retrieved February 23, 2011
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  15. ↑ Forest owners are considering lawsuit against the energy transition , accessed on March 19, 2014
  16. ↑ [4]
  17. ↑ https://www.nabu.de/news/2015/12/20002.html accessed on December 29, 2016
  18. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/guttenberg-dinosaurier-des-jahres-101.html accessed on December 29, 2016
  19. ↑ Grit Gerhardt: The dinosaur doesn't like the jungle. In: Neues Deutschland from December 30, 2015, p. 16
  20. ↑ [5]
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  22. ↑ [7]
  23. ^ Nico Fried: Carnival Order for Guttenberg - If you still laugh , Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 20, 2011; Retrieved March 1, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Guttenberg, Philipp Franz too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guttenberg, Philipp Franz Maria Antonius Friedrich Wilhelm Emanuel Johannes Freiherr von und zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian farmer and forest manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim