Fürst Pückler-Muskau, Hermann

*1785 - + 1871

He was general, aristocrat, traveller, writer and above all a landscape-gardener. Married to countess Lucie von Pappenheim, born Hardenberg, of high Prussian nobility too, he spent all his money and lands to create marvellous parcs, and even travelled to England and Ireland in search of a good match (to marry well). For this reason, Lucie and Hermann even “divorced”, and she sent him to the Islands.
After that he travelled the Middle East and North-Africa right down to Sudan. Of all these journeys he told in several books which were very successful and brought new capital to buy trees.
In Alexandria he bought an Ethiopian slave-girl, which he named Mahbuba (“the beloved”). They are buried together in Branitz in East-Germany, near Polonia, were you can find until today an Aztec-looking pyramid in his second big parc as mausoleum.
Nowadays only the Fürst-Pückler-Icecream remains known.