Greve Lance Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow

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Name: Lance Reventlow Nationality: United States of America Date of birth: February 24, 1936 - London Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and CountCourt Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7½ Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly."
Date of death: July 24, 1972 - Colorado Barbara Hutton inherited $40m ($800m at today's prices) when she was 21 from her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of the Woolworth store chain. Sheled a jet set lifestyle and at 24 was already married and divorced. Her second marriage was to the Danish nobleman Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and the couple was living in a house near London's Marble Arch when their son Lance was born. Worried about threats to kidnap the child, she decided to move and built the magnificent Winfield House in Regents Park (today the official residence of the United States ambassador to Britain). The couple lived in the house for two years but the marriage broke up as the Second World War began and Hutton took her son with her to America where she married film star Cary Grant two years later. That marriage did not last either and she married three more times while Reventlow was growing up. He became interested in racing when he was 19. He competed in clubevents in California and became pals with James Dean. On the day he died Dean met Reventlow while out driving around the hills of California. Two years later Reventlow flew to Europe and bought a Maserati sportscar but this was quickly destroyed in a crash at Snetterton. That summer he drove a factory Cooper Formula 2 car at various races in Britain and then went back to the United States with theidea of building his own cars. Reventlow Automobile Inc. produced the Scarab sportscar and in the late 1950s this enjoyed some success on the US racing scene. The company then decided to build Formula1 cars and embarked on an ambitious program with a front-engineered machine. By the time the car appeared in mid-1960 it was out of date and uncompetitive compared to rear-engined cars. Reventlow ended up trying a factory Cooper at the British GP before flying back to the United States. The team was back in Europe in 1961 with Chuck Daigh driving in the Inter-Continental Formula but he crashed thecar at Silverstone and Reventlow and the team went back to America. A new sportscar was built but Reventlow soon lost interest in motor racing. He was often in the gossip columns in the United Statesand was briefly married to actress Jill St John. He died in 1972 when the Cessna 206 in which he was a passenger crashed in a storm in the Rocky Mountains.

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Lance Reventlow, born February 24, 1936 in London – died July 24, 1972 near Aspen, Colorado, United States, was a wealthy playboy, entrepreneur, and Formula One race car driver.


Count Lance von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow was the only child of Danish nobleman Curt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow and American socialite Barbara Hutton who almost died giving birth to her son. Born at Winfield House in London, built by his mother and named for her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth, his parent's marriage was a tumultuous one, filled with his mother's growing alcohol anddrug addiction. She had inherited the Woolworth department store fortune and was then one of the wealthiest women in the world. The marriage, Barbara Hutton's second of seven, did not last and the child became the subject of a bitter custody battle.

Left to be raised by nannies and boarding schools, Lance Reventlow was six years old when his mother married actor Cary Grant who took the already troubled boy under his wing. Reventlow's mother and Grant divorced on July 11, 1945 and two days later the then nine-year-old was abducted by his biological father and taken to Canada but later returned. Grant remained close to Reventlow, who spent a great deal of time in the Los Angeles area.

In 1948, at age 12, Reventlow was introduced to the world of Grand Prix motor racing when his mother married Prince Igor Troubetzkoy who won the Targa Florio that year. As a teenager, Reventlow's money afforded him the latest in exotic cars that led to his involvement in motor racing.

In Hollywood, Reventlow became friends with fellow auto enthusiast James Dean and competed in club events around California. On September 30, 1955 Lance Reventlow was one of the last people to speak to Dean when they met on their way to an auto race in Salinas, California. Dean was killed a few hours later in his racing Porsche 550 Spyder.


Reventlow eventually decided to go to Europe to race cars and spent a season driving Cooper Formula 2 cars. He then returned to the United States and set up his own company in Venice, California to construct Chevrolet-powered race cars he named Scarab . Along with hired driver Chuck Daigh, the two were initially successful in racing. Daigh won the 1958 Riverside Grand Prix in California and Carroll Shelby drove a Scarab to first place at Continental Divide Raceways in Castle Rock, Colorado, breaking a course record.

In 1959, Lance Reventlow visited the mother he barely knew at her new mansion in Cuernavaca, Mexico . Having just divorced her sixth husband, Reventlow confronted his mother over his upbringing and after a heated argument the two parted company. Already in the media spotlight because of his mother and the family wealth, shortly after the confrontation with his mother, Reventlow married actress Jill St. John. The glamorous couple were the focus of much media attention and his racing team was much talked about for having built the first Formula One racecar in America. Shifting operations overseas to Britain, Reventlow's team raced the Scarab cars in Formula One with little success and in 1962 he shut down the operation, leased the California facilities to Carroll Shelby, and quit auto racingaltogether.

Reventlow's marriage to Jill St. John ended in divorce in 1963. In 1964, he married ex-Mouseketeer Cheryl Holdridge, and mostly remained out of the glare of publicity for several years. An avid Alpineskier, hiker, and pilot, Reventlow maintained a home in Aspen, Colorado. It was there in 1972 that according to the NTSB report, Reventlow was a passenger in a Cessna 206 piloted by an inexperienced 27-year-old student who flew into a blind canyon and stalled the aircraft while trying to turn around. The small plane plunged to the ground, killing Lance Reventlow and the others aboard. His widow later married Manning J. Post , a major figure in the Democratic Party in California.

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Lance blev gift med Jill Arlyn Oppenheim [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Lance blev gift med Cheryl Lynn Phelps den 7 nov. 1964. Cheryl blev født den 20 jun. 1944; døde den 6 jan. 2009. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Kurt Graf v. Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow was (the third of four children) commisioned into the Garde du Corps on 24.6.14. Graf v. Haugwitz entered the GdC at the outbreak of war as a Fahnenjunker and consequently was not listed in the last peacetime army list of May 1914. He was commissioned as a Leutnant ohne Patent on 21.2.15 later receiving seniority effective 24.6.14. The regimental historyindicates that he served throughout the war with the regiment although being detached temporarily for service as a Divisional Orderly Officer in 1918.

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Curt blev gift med Barbara Woolworth - Hutton. Barbara blev født den 14 nov. 1912; døde den 11 maj 1979. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Barbara Hutton, America's most famous heiress - a 'poor little rich girl' doomed to failure and tragedy. PhilipVan Rensselaer dramatically re-creates the events of her life in a book that captures theextravagance and glamour of the international jet set. Barbara Hutton's extravagance was fabled.

Her parties, clothes, jewelry and furs - all flaunted during the Depression years - made her the envy of women around the world. Her romances with royalty and celebrities were frequent, headline-making, and more often than not, disastrous.

Though she was married to a handsome Russian prince, a dazzling Danish count, and to the most sought-after actor in the world - Cary Grant - Barbara Hutton was a vulnerable woman, haunted by loneliness. Descended from robber barons, Barbara Hutton's grandfather Frank Woolworth left her an astonishing legacy of twenty-five million dollars and a Fifth Avenue palace.

She casually acquired a stately English mansion, into which she poured a fortune for renovations, a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, a castle in Tangier, and a Japanese-style home in Mexico. She surrounded herself with liveried servants and a host of hangers-on, who benefited from her generosity. Despite her opulent surroundings, Barbara's life was not the stuff of fairy tales. Her mother committed suicide and her businessman father was cold and indifferent.

At the age of sixteen, she got her first glimpse of European high life in Biarritz, where she met Elsa Maxwell, and where her money attracted the first in a series of fortune hunters, who played uponher vulnerability and bled her white, while invariably falling in love with her. Barbara Hutton's story gives the reader a breathtaking picture of a life that was glamorous on the surface but essentially tragic.

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Georg Erdmann Karl Friedrich Graf von Haugwitz, *22.06.1848 +12.09.1897 was the father of Kurt *28.09.1895 (Gotha Gräfl. Taschenbuch 1915-394). Georg entered Kür. R 1 in 1865 and served with that regiment until 1877 when he transferred to KR 6. In 1885 he went to KR 5 and then KR 7 in 1891. Major 22.03.1889 His last assignment was as the commander of Ulan. R. 2 from 1894-1895. The picture at the left is of a company grade officer and show him in the uniform of either KR 1-look at cockardes. (KR 1 Stammliste entry #100)

Listed as an Oberleutnant (Premier-Lieutenant) a.D. in the 1914 Gräfliches Taschenbuch. He was awarded his EK2 as a Sekonde-Lieutenant in the Leib-Kürassier-Regiment (Schles.) Nr. 1. It would appear that he in fact retired as an Oberstleutnant. The 1914 list it seems erroneously listed him as an Oberleutnant a.D. He is shown as an Oberstleutnant in the 1942 list. He is shown in the regimental history of Kürassier-Rgiment Nr. 6 as having served in that regiment from 23 October 1877 until 10 June 1884 when he was transfered to Kürassier-Regiment Nr. 5 as a Rittmeister.

Georg blev gift med Gabriele Franziska Therese Schneider. Gabriele blev født den 31 jan. 1865; døde den 25 mar. 1939. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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TITEL: Greve

Ved allerhøjeste resolution af 1. okt. 1885 blev Curt Ulrich Heinrich greve Haugwitz i anledning af at hans hustru Lucie Caroline Amalie Adelheid Henriette Georgine Wilhelmine, født prinsesse af Schönaich-Carolath, havde tiltrådt besiddelsen af grevskabet Hardenberg-Reventlow, for sig og deres ægte agnatiske descendenter optaget i den danske grevestand under navnet Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow ogmed det forenede Haugwitz'ske og Hardenberg-Reventlow'ske våben.

The last grant of the title of greve (count) (with the exception of the counts of Rosenborg) was to Curt Ulrich Graf von Haugwitz (German count and baron) as greve Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow October 1st 1885.

The last non-royal to be granted a hereditary title was the German countly family of Haugwitz of which one member was created a Danish Count Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow upon succeeding to a Danish entailed countly estate (majorat) in 1886.

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In 1885 Christian IX granted the last Danish non-royal count's patent, to Curt Ulrich Heinrich von Haugwitz, who became Count Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow and whose wife, Princess Lucie Caroline Schönaich-Carolath, had inherited the Danish country of Hardenberg. This Danish estate had passed into these German families through her great grandmother Countess Juliane Frederikke Christiane Reventlow,who was the richest heiress in the Nordic countries in her day. In contradiction of public opinion she married a foreigner, the later famous Prussian reformer Count Karl August Hardenberg. But he wasoriginally a Hanoverian and at the time George III's Hanoverian minister in London. His marriage to the rich Countess Reventlow was dissolved amidst great scandal because she was having an affair withthe Prince Regent George (IV)! Equally noteworthy is probably Christian IX's comital grantee's grandchild Count Curt Heinrich Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, the abusive husband of "the poor little rich girl" Barbara Woolworth Hutton, the Woolworth heiress.

Curt blev gift med Prinsesse Lucie Caroline Amalie Adelheid Henriette Georgine Wilhelmine Schönaich-Carolath i 1843. Lucie (datter af Fyrste Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Carolath-Beuthen og Adelheid Pappenheim) blev født den 18 sep. 1822 i Zamek Carolath (før: Carolath), Siedlisko, Niederschlesien, Polen; døde den 30 apr. 1903 i Krenkerup, Radsted Sogn, Musse Herred, Maribo Amt, Danmark. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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• Ejendom: 1885-1903, Krenkerup, Radsted Sogn, Musse Herred, Maribo Amt, Danmark

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In 1885 Christian IX granted the last Danish non-royal count's patent, to Curt Ulrich Heinrich von Haugwitz, who became Count Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow and whose wife, Princess Lucie Caroline Schönaich-Carolath, had inherited the Danish country of Hardenberg. This Danish estate had passed into these German families through her great grandmother Countess Juliane Frederikke Christiane Reventlow,who was the richest heiress in the Nordic countries in her day. In contradiction of public opinion she married a foreigner, the later famous Prussian reformer Count Karl August Hardenberg. But he wasoriginally a Hanoverian and at the time George III's Hanoverian minister in London. His marriage to the rich Countess Reventlow was dissolved amidst great scandal because she was having an affair withthe Prince Regent George (IV)! Equally noteworthy is probably Christian IX's comital grantee's grandchild Count Curt Heinrich Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, the abusive husband of "the poor little rich girl" Barbara Woolworth Hutton, the Woolworth heiress.