Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg
Tatiana Hilarionowna Princess of Metternich-Winneburg gen. Princess of Metternich-Winneburg (born Princess Tatiana Ilarionowna Wassiltschikoff , Russian Татьяна Васильчикова * December 19, 1914 . Jul / 1. January 1915 greg. In Petrograd , † 26 July 2006 on Castle Johannisberg bei Geisenheim ) was a German painter, writer and patron of Russian origin.
family
Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg was the daughter of Prince Hilarion Sergejewitsch Wassiltschikow (1881-1969) and Princess Lidia Leonidowna Vjasemskaja (1886-1946). She was the widow of Paul Alfons Prince von Metternich-Winneburg and was the last representative of the House of Metternich-Winneburg.
Life
After the Russian Revolution , her family fled to Germany via Malta and France. Tatiana Wassiltschikow later studied painting in Munich. In the 1930s she got a position in the Foreign Office in Berlin. During this time she made friends with a group of opponents of the regime and through this met her future husband Paul Alfons. They married on September 6, 1941 in Berlin's Grunewald. Her sister, Marie (called Missie) Wassiltschikow (1917–1978), describes the Berlin years in her Berlin diaries .
Tatiana and Paul Alfons von Metternich first lived at Königswart Castle in Egerland and, after their expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1945, at Johannisberg Castle in Hesse, which was destroyed in the war, together with the mother of their husband, Princess Isabel von Metternich-Winneburg (1880–1980), the former princess from Metternich-Winneburg. The marriage remained childless, with it the Metternich-Winneburg line , which went back to Prince Metternich , expired.
Together with her husband Paul, she rebuilt Johannisberg Castle after the war and managed the winery. Together with the Wiesbaden sparkling wine producer Henkell & Söhnlein , the “Fürst von Metternich” brand was sold. The castle and the vineyards have belonged to the Oetker Group since 1974 .
Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg was co-founder and chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Rheingau Music Festival and was involved in numerous charitable activities, in particular in the Order of Lazarus , of which she was the second major Bailli in Germany from 1992 to 2006.
She died on July 26, 2006 at the age of 91 at Johannisberg Castle near Geisenheim in the Hessian Rheingau.
Awards and honors
- 1970 Decoration of Honor from the German Red Cross
- 1990 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class
- 1999 winner of the Georg-August-Zinn-Medal
- 2001 Wilhelm Leuschner Medal , the highest award in the State of Hesse
- 2003 Ring of Honor of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
literature
- Tatiana Metternich: Report of an unusual life , Goldmann, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-442-03922-3
- Tatiana Metternich-Wassiltchikow: What will happen to Russia? The thorny way to democracy , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-548-34999-4
- Marie Wassiltschikow : The Berlin diaries of Marie 'Missie' Wassiltschikow 1940-1945 , Siedler, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-238-8
- Tatiana Metternich: "Pfauenthron / Peacock Throne: Reiseagebuch / Traveling Chronicle Johannisberg, Teheran, Persepolis, German-English version with colored images, Modul-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2002, ISBN 3-9806679-5-2
Individual evidence
Wiesbaden Courier dated December 14, 1970
Web links
- Literature by and about Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pedigree of Tatjana Metternich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metternich-Winneburg, Tatiana von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metternich-Winneburg, Tatiana Hilarionowna Princess von (full name); Metternich-Winneburg, Tatiana Princess von; Wassiltschikoff, Tatiana Ilarionowna Princess (maiden name); Васильчикова, Татьяна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, writer and patron of Russian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrograd |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 2006 |
| Place of death | at Geisenheim |