On 14 December Count Alois von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg died aged 81. He was born at Zeil Castle on 20 September 1933 as son of Erich August Fürst von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg and Monika Princess zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. He is mourned by his wife Clarissa née Countess von Schönborn-Wiesentheid, three of his five children and his twelve grandchildren. He was a younger brother of Georg Fürst von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg.
He was a politician and longtime member of the “Deutsche Bundestag”, 1980-1998.
The funeral service took place in the Parish Church St. Georg in Ratzenried, Germany, on 20 December, followed by the burial at the cemetery of Ratzenried.
