Faber-Castell family


The Faber-Castell family is a German noble family of entrepreneurs linked to the Faber-Castell manufacturing company. The Faber family originated from Stein bei Nürnberg in Bavaria, and it founded the Faber pencil-making business in 1761 and the Nürnberger Versicherung in 1884. The heiress of the Fabers married a member of the Castell-Rüdenhausen comital family in 1898, and this union created a morganatic branch of the House of Castell-Rüdenhausen that became known as the Faber-Castell family.

History

Founded in 1761 by Kaspar Faber, A.W. Faber Bleystiftwerke made pencils. One of his successors was Johann Lothar, Freiherr von Faber; his granddaughter and heiress Ottilie Freiin von Faber married Alexander Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen in 1898. From them originated the new family name of Faber-Castell, after Alexander Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen changed his name to Alexander Graf von Faber-Castell. In 1905, the pencil brand "Castell" was introduced for particularly high quality pencils.
Roland Graf von Faber-Castell was the last sole heir to the Faber-Castell fortune. The Count successfully merged the companies Faber-Castell and Johann Faber. Roland was CEO of Faber-Castell for 50 years. Count Roland's first wife, Alix-May was born into the Cologne-based banking dynasty Oppenheim. The marriage was disrupted through antisemitic attacks, because her grandfather, prominent banker Eduard von Oppenheim was a born Jew.
Eduard married Amalie Heuser, from a Protestant family and converted to Lutheranism.
Yet, Roland and Alix-May were victims of constant attacks. In 1935 Graf Roland and Alix-May divorced after the magazine Der Stürmer criticized her luxurious lifestyle and the words 'Die Oppenheim, das Judenschwein, muss raus aus Stein' were written on the family's castle,.
Furthermore, Anton-Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell, son from Roland's second marriage with Katharina, was CEO and the owning family's representative for nearly 40 years in the eighth generation. In that context, Graf Anton-Wolfgang bought out many of his siblings and their children to gain decisive power.
He worked for a long time with his younger brother, Andreas Graf von Faber-Castell, for the family business. Andreas acted from Australia and dealt largely with the Asian market. A son from the first marriage of Roland von Faber-Castell and his wife Alix-May, was Hubertus von Faber-Castell. Hubertus was a pioneer in Chinese commercial television and has been awarded, as the first European in history, the honorary citizenship of China's capital city Beijing. The mother of Hubertus was, among other things, co-owner of Europe's biggest private bank, Sal. Oppenheim Jr & Cie. Hubertus von Faber-Castell's former wife Liselotte von Faber-Castell went on to marry the industrialist .
His son, Patrick Graf von Faber-Castell, married the German actress Mariella Ahrens under a large media presence at Faber-Castell castle, in 2007.
Swiss billionaire Paul Sacher, majority shareholder of the pharmaceuticals company Hoffmann-La Roche, was father to Katharina and Cornelia von Faber-Castell.
Patrick von Faber-Castell and his siblings, Floria-Franziska of Hesse and Caroline Gotzens, own one of the most important collections of silver and jewellery in Germany. Most of the pieces are available to the public in various German museums. The majority of the private collection has been recorded by the Kunstmuseum Köln and published under the name "A Rhenish Silver Treasure - Jewelry and Equipment from Private Ownership".

Family members

  • Alexander Friedrich Lothar von Faber-Castell ; Born July 6, 1866, in Rüdenhausen; † April 11, 1928, in Oberstdorf; ∞ I. Ottilie von Faber, born September 6, 1877, in Stein; † September 28, 1944, in Nuremberg; II. Countess Margaretha Zedtwitz of Moravan and Duppau, born September 30, 1886, in Duppau; † October 25, 1973, in Castle Schwanberg, Schwanberg
  • * Elisabeth Bertha Emma Ottilie Johanna Sophie Marie Luitgard von Faber-Castell ; ∞ I. Munich, December 21, 1920 0 | 0 1930 Hubert Frommel ; ∞ II. Stein, January 31, 1933, Nikolaus Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen ; ∞ III. Viechtwang, July 15, 1947, Max Buchegger
  • * Marie Gabrielle "Mariella" Hedwig Gräfin von Faber-Castell Max Hugo Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen ; ∞ II. Berlin, April 24, 1935, Lüder Lahmann
  • * Irmengard Luise Bertha Clementine von Faber-Castell Friedrich Wilhelm Hornstein ; ∞ II. Hadamar, August 31, 1958, Karl-Heinz Licht
  • * * April 21, 1905, in Schwarzenbruck; † February 2, 1978, in Ansbach; ∞ I. Alix-May of Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf, born September 20, 1907, in Munich; † December 19, 1979, in Polop, Spain; ∞ II. Katharina Sprecher von Bernegg, * June 24, 1917, in Zurich; † April 22, 1994, in Küsnacht; ∞ III. Ursula Boden, born October 4, 1924, in Wurzen; † November 8, 2003, in Vienna
  • ** Felicitas Ottilie Viktoria-Luise Marie Antoinette Berta von Faber-Castell * July 10, 1929, in Stein; ∞ Tschammer Wagner, born April 11, 1928, in Neisse
  • ** Erika-Elisabeth Wilhelmine Margarete von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Baron Edzard von Wedel-Jarlsberg, born February 15, 1924, in Göttingen; † June 12, 1969, in Zurich
  • ** Alexander-Roland Wulf-Diether Konrad Alfred Lothar von Faber-Castell Alke Lahmann
  • *** Constantin Alexander Christian von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Erfurt, June 26, 1992, Christin Gloczinski
  • **** Camilla Marie Marielle Alke Sigrid von Faber-Castell
  • *** Lothar Alexander Carl-Otto Lüder von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Nürnberg, November 20, 1992, Petra Götz
  • **** Maximilian von Faber-Castell
  • *** Andrea Margarita Alke Sophie Maria Gabriela Ellen Julia von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Thalmässig, August 27, 1999, Alexander Beckstein
  • ** Hubertus Alexander Wolfgang Rüdiger Emanuel Wilhelm von Faber-Castell * April 8, 1934, in Munich; † January 29, 2007; ∞ I. Liselotte Baecker, born August 20, 1939, in Frankfurt am Main; ∞ II., March 21, 1970, in Meerbusch Adelheid, Baroness von der Leyen zu Bloemersheim, born November 6, 1945, in Homberg; † May 23, 2010, in Wiesbaden
  • *** Caroline Elisabeth Renate Ottilie von Faber-Castell * August 20, 1961, in Düsseldorf; ∞, July 29, 1990, in Castle Stein, Stein, ) Michael Gotzens, born March 3, 1958, in Düsseldorf
  • **** Antonia-Sophie Gotzens
  • **** Alessandra-Louisa Gotzens
  • **** Nicholas Gotzens
  • *** Patrick Alexander Hubertus von Faber-Castell * June 4, 1965, in Düsseldorf; ∞ Mariella Ahrens, born April 2, 1969, in Leningrad, Soviet Union
  • **** Lucia Marie Christina von Faber-Castell
  • *** Floria-Franziska Marie-Luise Erika von Faber-Castell * 14 October 1974, in Düsseldorf; ∞ ; 17 May 2003, in Kronberg ) Heinrich Donatus, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse, born 17 October 1966, in Kiel
  • **** Paulina Elisabeth Adelheid Tatiana Suzanne Prinzessin von Hessen, twin with the below
  • **** Moritz Ludwig Georg Wolf Erbprinz von Hessen, twin with the above
  • **** August Siegfried Hubertus Felix Prinz von Hessen
  • ** Angela Katharina Edith Alexandra von Faber-Castell * 4 July 1939 in Nuremberg; † August 29, 1991, in Munich; ∞, October 17, 1959, in Stein Heinrich von Kölichen, born August 18, 1926, in Kittletztreben; † June 6, 1991, in Munich
  • ** * June 7, 1941, in Bamberg; † January 21, 2016, in Houston, Texas; ∞ I. Carla Mathilde Lamesch, born July 15, 1942, in Luxembourg; † May 18, 2010, in Little Rock; ∞ II. Mary Elizabeth Hogan, born November 25, 1951, in St. Louis, Missouri
  • *** Married, Charles Alexander von Faber-Castell ; ∞, May 26, 2012, in Stein ) Melissa Eliyeşil,
  • **** Leonhard Alexander Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell
  • **** Carla Victoria von Faber-Castell
  • *** Katharina Elisabeth von Faber-Castell
  • *** Victoria Maria Cornelia Ottilie von Faber-Castell, twin with the below
  • *** Sarah Anne Angela Nadine von Faber-Castell, twin with the above
  • ** Andreas Wilhelm Christian Eberhard von Faber-Castell * June 1, 1946, in Dürrenhembach; ∞ Virginia Ruth Porter, born January 31, 1947, in Trenton, New Jersey
  • *** Natalie Grace Anna Katharina von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Salvatore Lacaria, born December 16, 1968
  • *** Alea Virginia Andrea Christina von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Brian Martin McGabhan
  • *** Anton Andreas Wilhelm Christian Alexander von Faber-Castell ; ∞, May 17, 2014 ) Kate Stahl
  • ** ; ∞ Barbla Mani, born November 4, 1951, in Thusis, Switzerland
  • *** Alexandra von Faber-Castell
  • ** Katharina Lucia Ricarda Emilie von Faber-Castell ; ∞ Zurich, August 25, 1989, Bruno Guglielmetti
  • ** Cornelia von Faber-Castell Serge Perriard ; ∞ II. Küssnacht, September 2, 2011, Claudio Maira