Bürklin Albert

Bürklin Albert The town clerk and later mayor of Wachenheim Bernhard Bürklin (1580-1636) acquired a large amount of vineyard and agricultural property and established the tradition of Bürklin's viticulture in Wachenheim. Johann Ludwig Wolf (1777-1840) was one of the wealthiest men in the Palatinate and, according to a contemporary report, was also "owner of excellent vineyards in Wachenheim, Forst, Deidesheim and Ruppertsberg". After his death, the large agricultural and forestry property as well as the Grohé banking house in Neustadt passed to his three children. Johann Ludwig Wolf's granddaughter Luise Wolf (1847-1925), heiress to a large part of his fortune and property, married the privy councillor Dr. Albert Bürklin (1844-1924) in 1875. This was the foundation stone for the present name of the Dr. Bürklin-Wolf winery. He was vice-president of the German Reichstag and from 1889 general director of the Baden court theatre in Karlsruhe. When he married Luise Wolf, he moved to Wachenheim and developed the estate into a model winery for quality winegrowing.

His grandnephew of the same name, Dr. Albert Bürklin (1907-1979), inherited the family winery in 1924. He was instrumental in rebuilding the professional self-administration after the Second World War. On his initiative, the Winzerverband Rheinpfalz e.V. was founded in 1947, which he chaired as vice-president until 1971. He was also a co-founder of the DWV (German Winegrowers' Association) and held the office of vice-president there as well. For many years he was the German delegate to the OIV in Paris. As part of his work as a member of the supervisory board of the DWI (German Wine Institute), he initiated the creation of the German Wine Seal. Bürklin received numerous honours, for example the Grand Federal Cross of Merit. The business was taken over in 1990 by the eldest daughter Bettina Bürklin von Gurazde and husband Christian von Guradze.

Source and picture: Dr. Bürklin-Wolf e.K.

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