MALLINCKRODT, Georg Wilhelm von KBE (Hon) (1930-2021)
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He was s of Arnold Wihelm Theodor VON MALLINCKRODT (1901-82) and Valentine Huberta Alexandra Else Victoria VON JOEST (d 1994). He m 1958 Baroness Charmaine Brenda (b 1935) d of Baron Helmut William Bruno SCHRODER (1901-1969) and Margaret Eleanor Phyllis (1920-94, d of Sir Lionel Edward Hamilton Marmaduke DARELL 6th Bt (1876-1954)), and had two sons and two daus as above. The elder dau, Claire Louise (b 1960) m 1987 Henry Julian Nicholas (b 1954) s of Maj-Gen Lord Michael FITZALAN HOWARD (1916-2007, bro of Maj-Gen 17th Duke of NORFOLK (1915-2002)) and his 2nd w Jane Margaret NEWMAN (d 1995), and has issue.
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Mallinckrodt was thereby also the brother-in-law of Helmut’s only son Bruno, the billionaire major shareholder of Schroders in the current generation. But while Bruno Schroder (who died in 2019) was on the whole a hands-off proprietor, much taken up with other interests but maintaining a benign overview of the bank’s affairs, Mallinckrodt was intensely engaged as a cultivator of international clients and a steward of the family’s interests.....
Georg Wilhelm Gustav von Mallinckrodt – widely known as “Gowi”, pronounced “Govi” – was born in Germany on August 19 1930, the son of Arnold von Mallinckrodt and his wife Valentine, née von Joest
As Westphalian landowners, river toll collectors and burgermeisters, the Mallinckrodts proudly traced a direct line of descent from 1156. Georg’s great-grandfather Gustav was an early industrialist in Cologne; his grandfather Wilhelm (brother-in-law of Herman Kleinwort of the London banking family) established his own trading and banking venture at Antwerp, while another branch of the family emigrated to St Louis, Missouri, to built a substantial chemicals business there.
Georg and his two sisters spent much of their childhood in Paris, where Arnold was managing director of the French arm of the camera manufacturer Agfa, which was a subsidiary of the German industrial conglomerate I G Farben. Arnold facilitated the passage out of Germany of a number of I G Farben’s Jewish employees; the Mallinckrodts were anti-Nazi, and some of his family’s French relations were sent to concentration camps, though all survived.
A connection between the Mallinckrodt and Schroder families was made in the 1920s when Arnold and his banker brother Gustav became friends of the young Helmut Schroder. Gustav was appointed as Schroders’ agent in Berlin, and later representative in Frankfurt – as well as godfather to Bruno Schroder, who was born in 1933...............
He often spoke of his family’s tradition of “civic responsibility”, and approached his public and charitable commitments with the same Germanic seriousness that he applied to business. The portfolio included the presidency for 56 years of the German YMCA in London as well as membership of the Court of Benefactors of Oxford University, the council of the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the circle of patrons of INSEAD Business School.
He supported the National Art Collections Fund and the British Museum, and was a trustee of the Prague Heritage Fund. An adviser to the dean and canons of Windsor on financial matters, he was also a trustee of the charity Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs, a patron of the Three Faiths Forum, and a benefactor of German Lutheran churches in the UK.
Though his Christian name had long been anglicised, Mallinckrodt remained a German citizen and never shed the clipped accent of his upbringing. He received an honorary British knighthood in 1997 and a papal knighthood of the Order of St Gregory in 2012. He listed his recreations as “music and libraries”.
His wife Charmaine survives him with their two sons and two daughters. Their daughter Claire Fitzalan Howard represents the family on the board of Schroders.
George Mallinckrodt, born August 19 1930, died January 16 2021