Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil explained

Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil (born 20 September 1933 in Leutkirch im Allgäu; died 14 December 2014) was a German politician.

Life

His parents were Erich August Fürst von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg (1899–1953) and Monika Prinzessin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1905–1992). He went to school at Kolleg St. Blasien. He studied politics and economics at universities in Bonn, Rome and Munich.^[1]

On 21 June 1956, he married Clarissa Gräfin von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (born in Jüterbog on 14 October 1936).^[2]

His children were:

• Monika Gräfin Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (born 1957)
• Clemens Graf von Waldburg-Zeil (born 1960)
• Georg Graf von Waldburg-Zeil (1961–1989)
• Theresa Lenhart Gräfin von Waldburg-Zeil (born 1962)
• Franz-Anton Graf von Waldburg-Zeil (1964–1987)

Waldburg-Zeil was from 1980 to 1998 member of German Bundestag.^{[3] [4]}

Awards

• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• National Order of the Lion from Senegal
• 1993: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
• Order of St. Gregory the Great
• Order of Isabella the Catholic

References

1. https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/die-reichsten-deutschen-schwabens-milliardenschwere-blaublueter-a-131247.html Spiegel.de: Schwabens milliardenschwere Blaublüter, May 1, 2001
2. https://de.catholicnewsagency.com/article/irgendwann-schon-1052 Catholicnewsagency: Ein Leben wie ein Roman: Ein Wort des Dankes zum Abschied an Clarissa Gräfin von Waldburg-Zeil (german)
3. http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2007/0206/mdb/mdb13/bio/W/waldbal0.html Bundestag: Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil
4. https://www.bild.de/regional/stuttgart/cdupolitiker-alois-graf-von-waldburgzeil-38989038.bild.html BILD.de: CDU-Politiker Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil gestorben

External links

• Bundestag: Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil
• Spiegel.de: Schwabens milliardenschwere Blaublüter, May 1, 2001