Wolfgang

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

von Stetten (born 22 January 1941 in Niederwartha) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He served as Member of Parliament (the

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) from 1990 to 2002. He represented the constituency of

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, and was succeeded by his son

Christian von Stetten Christian Freiherr von Stetten (born 24 July 1970 in Stuttgart) is a Swiss-German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He has served as Member of the Parliament of Germany, the Bundestag, since 2002. He ...

Early life and education

Wolfgang von Stetten earned a doctorate in law in 1972, with the dissertation ''Die Rechtsstellung der freien unmittelbaren Reichsritterschaft, ihre Mediatisierung und ihre Stellung in den neuen Landen''. From 1974 to 1984, he was a judge, and from 1984 to 1991, he served as Professor of Law at Heilbronn College. He is a member of the noble Franconian Stetten family, and owns his family seat, Schloss Stetten.

Political career

As a member of parliament, von Stetten served on the Committee on Legal Affairs and as

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spokesman for several years. He founded the German-Baltic Parliamentary Association in 1991 and served as its chair to 2002. The association supported the independence of the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, and their membership in

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and the

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. From 1997 to 2001, he served as President of Studienzentrum Weikersheim. He has been the Lithuanian

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in Baden-Württemberg since 2004. He is also an active member of several charitable societies.

Honours

*1989 Freiherr-vom-Stein-Medaille *1990 Federal Cross of Merit *1996 Lithuanian Order of Gedimino *1996 Estonian

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana ( et, Maarjamaa Risti teenetemärk, sometimes translated as the Order of the Cross of St. Mary's Land) was instituted by the President of Estonia, Lennart Meri, on 16 May 1995 to honour the independence of t ...

First Class *2002 Latvian

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Third Class *2003 Honorary citizen of Kelme, Lithuania

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stetten, Wolfgang Von 1941 births Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002 Members of the Bundestag 1994–1998 Members of the Bundestag 1990–1994 Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Living people Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class Honorary consuls of Lithuania Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany