Hans-Hasso Freiherr von Ludolf Martin Veltheim Ostrau was a German Indologist, Anthroposophist, Far East traveler, occultist and author
Background
He came from an old Lower Saxon nobility, which was first documented in 1106, and was the son of the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel and landowner Veltheim von Franz (1856–1927), laird of Ostrau, Saxony-Anhalt and large-Weissandt (Landkreis Anhalt - Bitterfeld) and Anhalt ducal chamberlain, and whose first wife Klara Herbertz (1860–1925).
Career
Veltheim married 7 October 1916 in Leverkusen Hildegard Duisberg (* November 18, 1893 in Elberfeld, died 1964), daughter of Johanna Seebohm and Carl Duisberg, Director General of IG Farben. The marriage was divorced on 28 January 1924 in Berlin. Veltheim attracted worldwide friendship networks and his celebrity garnered him many contacts.
He was known to Wilhelm Behrens.
Veltheim was squire to Ostrau, Saxony-Anhalt Weissandt and large, private scholar and Knight of Honor of the Order of Saint John. He obtained his Ph Doctorate on Burgundische Kleinkirchen bis zum Jahre 1200, (small churches in the Burgundy till 1200).
Because of his escape from the Soviet occupation zone, he was unable to vote until 1990 in it for this purpose-built grave-altar-chapel of the castle church.