Hippolyt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau

Hippolyt Theodor Wilhelm Georg Benedikt Johannes Maria Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau (born 19 June 1908 in Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire; died 20 July 1990 in Zwiesel, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German businessman, forest manager and politician.

Life

Poschinger was the son of the Imperial Councillor of the Crown of Bavaria Eduard Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau and on his mother's side a great-grandson of the Bavarian Prime Minister Count Otto of Bray-Steinburg. He was a member of the Poschinger glassmaking dynasty in the Bavarian Forest.

He attended primary schools in Regensburg and Frauenau and from 1919 to 1926, the humanistic high school of the Benedictine monastery in Ettal. In 1930, he graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a degree in forestry, and in December of the same year he took over the administration of his father's agricultural and forestry property on the Oberfrauenau estate, which had been badly affected by hurricanes and hailstorms the previous year. The von Poschinger glass factory belongs to the estate.

In addition, Poschinger was also chairman of the Bavarian Forest Owners' Association since 1960.

Hippolyt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau died on 20 July 1990 at the age of 82. 1978: Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1973: Bavarian State Medal for special merits in the field of food, agriculture and forestry as well as rural development 1982: Grand Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany