Theodor von Cramer-Klett junior
Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett jun. (* August 18, 1874 ; † May 30, 1938 at Hohenaschau Castle ), also Theodor II von Cramer-Klett , was a German entrepreneur , patron and Imperial Councilor of the Crown of Bavaria . After converting to the Roman Catholic Confession , he was appointed papal secret chamberlain .
Life
Theodor von Cramer-Klett jun. was a son of the company's founder Theodor von Cramer-Klett and his wife Elisabeth geb. Curtze, daughter of a family of pharmacists in Worms. One of his tutors was Theodor von Bomhard , artillery officer and division commander in Würzburg and father of his fellow high school graduate of the same name.
From 1887 he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and passed his Abitur exams here in 1892, with Alfred von Bary , Maximilian von Bodman and Hugo Reichenberger , among others . He then studied law in Munich and Berlin and passed the first state examination in Munich in 1896 . In 1896/1897 he was a member of the Bavarian embassy to the Holy See . Declared of legal age after his father's death , he took over the company in 1895. In 1898 , the Maschinenbau-AG Nürnberg , which was significantly expanded by his father , merged with the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG to form the United Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbaugesellschaft Nürnberg AG , which later became Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG ( MAN ) . Cramer-Klett jun. Was in charge of the new company. but no longer significantly involved.
Cramer-Klett was nationally conservative in a romantic sense . The fact that he made a special contribution as a patron is largely due to this attitude. Thanks to donations from Theodor von Cramer-Klett jun. was u. a. financially enabled the re-establishment of Ettal Abbey , Plankstetten Abbey and Wessobrunn Abbey . In 1918 he founded a "Krüppelheim" in Hohenaschau. As lord of Hohenaschau Castle , he made extensive structural changes from 1905 to 1908.
In the early 1920s he emerged as President of the Economic Development Association , a German-Russian organization that maintained the connection between national-conservative German and monarchist Russian emigrants in Bavaria. At times it was abused by Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter to finance the NSDAP .
Theodor von Cramer-Klett junior lost a large part of his fortune in the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 . This ultimately led to his son Ludwig Benedikt being forced to sell Hohenaschau Castle to the German Empire in 1942 for financial reasons.
Cramer-Klett was a member of numerous boards, including 1900 to 1918 in the "Movement for the Preservation of Folk Costumes in Bavaria", as well as in several orders. Since 1903 he was with Anna Chariklia, geb. Baron von Würtzburg , heiress of the moated castle and the upper castle in Mitwitz near Coburg, married. The couple had four children:
- Elisabeth (born August 17, 1904)
- Ludwig Benedict (* March 21, 1906, † 15 August 1985), hunting writer whose daughter Margarethe von Cramer-Klett with actor Hans Clarin was married
- Regina (born September 4, 1907)
- Anne-Marie (born March 5, 1910)
Fonts
- Abbot-Primate Fidelis von Strotzingen. In: Munich Latest News from November 29, 1925.
- The policy of the Holy See during the last four pontificates and the Bavarian Concordat. In: Yellow Booklets , 1st year 1925.
- The Development of the Catholic Church in Germany during the 19th Century. Bayerischer Kurier publishing house, Munich 1926.
- The Common Prayer Book Issue in England and its Relationship with the Catholic Church. In: Allgemeine Rundschau , 25th year 1928.
- From the life of the church. In: Knowledge and Belief , 25th year 1928.
media
- Monastery pioneers - The romantic steel baron - Documentary, 45 minutes, director: Juri Köster
literature
- Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1 (A – K), Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
- Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): The Catholic Germany. Biographical-Bibliographical Lexicon. Haas & Grabherr literary institute, Augsburg 1933 (with photo).
- Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 10th edition, Leipzig 1935.
- German Killinger: Georg Zacharias Platner in Nuremberg and Freiherrn Theodor von Cramer-Klett. Family history study. hectographed typescript , Augsburg around 1949. (in the holdings of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
- Ludwig-Benedict Freiherr von Cramer-Klett (Aschau). In: CVs from Franconia. Volume 6, 1960.
- Sr. Georgia Otto OSB: Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett and his commitment to the Benedictine order. In: Wessobrunn municipality (ed.): 1250 years of Wessobrunn. Festschrift. Fink Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89870-128-0 , pp. 112-116.
- Marc Siegl: The Cramer-Klett, a family of industrialists and their importance for the Priental. The bourgeoisie as the successor to the nobility in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2nd ed., Aschau i. Ch. 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ officer; * February 20, 1874 in Germersheim / Pfalz; † June 15, 1938
- ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1891/92
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cramer-Klett, Theodor von junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cramer-Klett, Theodor II of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1874 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1938 |
| Place of death | Hohenaschau Castle |