Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil

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

Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil

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.

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

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.

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

External links

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