Wolf-Dietrich Speck von Sternburg

Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr Speck von Sternburg (born February 17, 1935 in Stolp ) is a German hotelier and art patron.

Life

Speck von Sternburg comes from an old Leipzig merchant family and was expelled from Stolp in Pomerania in 1945 with his mother and three siblings . His father was then a British prisoner of war. He completed an apprenticeship as a hotel clerk in Bad Reichenhall . In the late 1950s he went to Peru and then to America. He works as a waiter and concierge and began studying hotel management at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York). Until his retirement he was a member of the management of a Munich hotel company.

In 1994 the family art collection was returned to him. On November 12, 1996, he founded the Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Foundation to make the collection available to the city of Leipzig for public use. The collection includes 202 paintings, 126 drawings, more than 500 prints from the 14th to 19th centuries and an art library. In 1999 he acquired the castle and the associated castle park in Leipzig - Lützschena, which was designed by Maximilian Speck von Sternburg .

Honors

1999: Maecenas Prize from the working group of independent cultural institutes
1999: Saxon Order of Merit
2005: Medal of Honor of the City of Leipzig
2010: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
2013: Honorary member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts
2014: St. Heinrichs Nadel

literature

History of the Knights of Speck - Barons von Sternburg. Munich 1997
With Bernd Sikora: The bacon from Sternburgsche Schlosspark Lützschena. Leipzig 1999
With Jan Nicolaisen and Hans-Werner Schmidt: Dutch painting 1440-1800 in the Museum of Fine Arts . Leipzig 2012
With Stefan Berlich and Markus Hain: Reichel Chronicle (1831 1863). Notes from Ernst Moritz Reichel, pastor in Lützschena, Hänichen and Quasnitz. Leipzig 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr Speck von Sternburg is 80 years old today. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
^ German biography: Speck von Sternburg, Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr von - German biography. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
^ Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
^ Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
↑ - A patron of the arts. Retrieved on March 28, 2019 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Speck from Sternburg, Wolf-Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Wolf-Dietrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German hotelier and art patron
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stumble

[1] Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr Speck von Sternburg is 80 years old today. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .

[2] German biography: Speck von Sternburg, Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr von - German biography. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .

[3] Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .

[4] Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .

[5] - A patron of the arts. Retrieved on March 28, 2019 (German).