VON VOLLMAR [AUF VELTHEIM], Rudolf Jocelyn Heinrich William Oscar 1956-2024

[Richard R]

From the Times of 23 May 2024: VON VOLLMAR Rudolf, it is with great sorrow that we announce his death on 14th May 2024 peacefully at home after a short illness. He will be deeply missed by his companion Emma Hilton and his many friends and colleagues. The funeral will be held at St Mary’s Catholic Church, 63 Cadogan St, Chelsea… on Monday 10th June at noon with a reception to follow at Brindisa Battersea. No flowers please. Donations to Royal Trinity Hospice or Amnesty International.

He was the s of Albert H W R A VON VOLLMAR AUF VELTHEIM 1918-2002 and (as her 2^nd husband) Victoria Lilian Roden 1919-72 d of Capt Roden Henry Victor BUXTON CBE 1890-1990 (s of Sir Thomas Fowell Victor BUXTON 4^th Bt 1865-1919) and his 1^st w Dorothy Alina 1889-1956 d of Col Charles William Peter ST JOHN.

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There is a history and genealogy of the family of the Ritter von Vollmar auf Veltheim in the 1894 Brünner Taschenbuch, but I have not seen any more recent articles about them.

https://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/view/uuid:33b955a0-7dba-11e3-b0d1-005056827e51?page=uuid:f3bfcf80-87f8-11e3-aa9f-5ef3fc9ae867

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Burke's says that Aribert, Rudolf's father, was son of "Mrs Elisabeth Grimble".

"ELISABETH V.VOLLMAR A.VELTHEIM GEB. SIEGLE GRIMBLE" is on a list of Holocaust victims and survivors here:

https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=13009134

If the genealogy to which I linked above was complete through about 1894, then Aribert's father was likely a son, born after 1894, of Georg Karl Josef Heinrich Rr von Vollmar auf Veltheim (1850-    ).

This family was originally surnamed "Vollmar" and is seemingly unrelated to the large old "von Veltheim" family. (The recent Fürsten [or Princes] von Putbus are members of the von Veltheim family.)

[Robert Jewell]

Anyone have information about how Colonel Charles William Peter St John connected to the larger St John family? By naming pattern, I think he must. There is a Charles William Peter, son of General Frederick St John. There is a Charles William Pelly, as well, a bit later.

[S R Eglesfield]

Mrs Elisabeth GRIMBLE died on 2 March 1969, aged 82. It seems very likely that she was the (Baroness) Elizabeth (sic) VON VOLLMAR AUF VELTHEIM whose marriage to Harvey Neville Herbert GRIMBLE was registered in Q1 1924 in St Martin, London. When Harvey Grimble died on 25 October 1951, aged 65, probate was granted to "Arthur Barron accountant and Aribert von Vollmar barrister-at-law".

Aribert Weiner Heinrich Rudolf VON VOLLMAR AUF VELTHEIM was educated at Ampleforth, and his obituary, below, is from the Ampleforth Journal (see http://www.ampleforthjournal.org/V_107.pdf):

 

"COUNT ARIBERT VON VOLLMAR

Aribert Heinrich Rudolf von Vollmar: born 9 February 1918 Berlin; Clifton College Preparatory School; St Oswald's House April 1932-July 1934; London University; Lincoln's Inn — called to the Bar; Army 1941 onwards in the war; worked as a barrister at the Munich War crimes trials; barrister; Civil Service; director of the Catholic Building Society; married Victoria Buxton 1955 (one son); died 3 April 2002.

Aribert von Vollmar came of a German noble family, descended from a long line of German princes. Born in 1918 in Berlin, his father was killed within a few weeks of his birth at the end of the First World War. His mother then married an English army officer serving in India. In about 1924 or 1925 Aribert came to England and to Clifton College Preparatory School, and then in 1932 to Ampleforth.
After reading law at London University and then being called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, he served as a barrister until the war. In 1941 he joined the Army, training at Duncombe Park near Ampleforth, and joining the 79 Armoured Division/22nd Dragoons. At the end of the war he was ADC to the Duke of Grosvenor. He worked as a barrister at the Munich War Crimes trials (similar to the Nuremburg Trials). After working again as a barrister, he joined the Civil Service as a lawyer, and was eventually second in command of the Registrar of Friendly Societies. Later he was a Director of the Catholic Building Society. He had married Victoria Buxton in 1955, and they had one son, Rudolph 074). After retirement, he retired to the country, to Milcombe in Oxfordshire — where he became involved in local village life as craftsman, carpenter, painter, running the village fete, loved by all. At the age of 79 he began to read for a Mathematics degree at the Open University. He loved Bach. He was involved in hunting, especially with the Four Shire Basset Hounds. He was a lover of all country pursuits."

I suspect that the Duke to whom he was ADC was the Duke of Westminster (whose title and surname seem to have  been confused here). 

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As far as I can tell Aribert was not a Count, and he doesn't seem to have been "descended from a long line of princes". While it is unclear exactly who Aribert's parents were, I can find no record of anyone from the Vollmar auf Veltheim family marrying into any princely or comital family.

Since his mother was probably Jewish, since she is on that list of Holocaust victims and survivors, it is unlikely that she was from a princely family, either.