Jakob Graf zu Eltz
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Count Johann Jakob Eltz |
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| Born |
22 September 1921 Kleinheubach, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 10 February 2006 (aged 84) Eltville, Germany |
| Citizenship | Croatia, Germany |
| Title | Member of Parliament |
| Term | 1992 – 2000 |
Jakob Graf und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz-Kempenich genannt Faust von Stromberg, also referred to as Johann Jakob Eltz (Croatian: Jakov grof Eltz-Vukovarski) (September 22, 1921 – February 10, 2006) was a Knight of Malta, and a Croatian politician who became a key figure in Croatian politics during the 1990s. In Croatia, he is often styled as the count of Vukovar (vukovarski grof). He was President of the Association of Winemakers in Rheingau from 1964 to 1976. Jakob von und zu Eltz is the maternal grandfather of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a former German Minister of Defence.
The son of Count Karl von und zu Eltz-Kempenich (1896–1922) and Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1900–1982), Jakob von und zu Eltz was born in Kleinheubach, Bavaria, Germany to the eminent Eltz family, Roman Catholic nobles with ties to Croatia since 1736, when his ancestor Philipp Karl zu Eltz (Prince Elector and Archbishop of Mainz) bought the Lordship of Vukovar. The family owned several estates in Slavonia, including the Eltz castle in Vukovar. When Eltz was seven months old, his father died in a car crash, and his mother then decided to move to Vukovar, where Eltz spent his childhood and attended private schools.
He decided to study agronomics and went to the study at Zagreb and then Tetschen. Following the end of the Second World War, when the communists seized power, the Eltz Croatian estates were seized by the state. He then went to live in West Germany, where he studied law, took over the family's winery estate in Eltville and became a professor of viticulture at Mainz University. He was a member of the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta and the representative of the order, with the rank as an ambassador, in Germany. He was further known for his charity work and pilgrimages to Lourdes during this time.
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