Death in the Royal Family - Carl, Duke of Württemberg Died At 85

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Carl, Duke of Württemberg died at 85.

Carl was born in Friedrichshafen on 1 August 1936. He was the second son of Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany. He was educated at the classical grammar school in Riedlingen and the University of Tübingen, where he studied law. After graduating, he joined the family estate business, based at Altshausen Palace.

Carl became heir-presumptive to the headship of the House of Württemberg on 29 June 1959, when his older brother, Ludwig, renounced his succession rights. He became head of the family in 1975. The company manages around 5500 hectares of forest, around 2000 hectares of meadows and fields, fifty hectares of vineyards, other land in Germany and abroad, forests in Canada and Austria, and company holdings. It also maintains some seventy cultural monuments of the House of Württemberg. The current headquarters of the estate is Friedrichshafen Castle.

The Duke took part in many social and charitable activities, including the German Red Cross, the Friends of Cancer Children, the Free School Foundation, the Art Foundation, the Preventive Youth Welfare Foundation, and the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation, which he chaired from 2002 to 2008. He was Patron of the Society for the Promotion of the State Museum of Württemberg, an honorary senator of the Universities of Tübingen and Hohenheimas, and chairman of the Friends of the University of Tübingen and the University Foundation. In Altshausen, where he lived, he was Patron of the Citizens Guard Yellow Hussars.

On 31 May 2002, Pope John Paul II made the Duke the Commander-in-Chief of the Papal Order of St Gregory the Great. On November 8, 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Vallendar, and he became a Knight of Honour of the Teutonic Order in 2009.

On 7 June 2022, the Duke died in a hospital in Ravensburg at the age of 85. The Duke was succeeded by his grandson Duke Wilhelm who became the heir apparent to his grandfather after the death of his father.

Rest in peace, Carl.

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