Jakob Graf und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz-Kempenich genannt Faust von Stromberg, also referred to as Johann Jakob Eltz (Croatian: Jakov grof Eltz-Vukovarski; 22 September 1921 – 10 February 2006) was a Knight of Malta, and a Croatian politician during the 1990s. In Croatia, he was often styled as the count of Vukovar (vukovarski grof). He was President of the Association of Winemakers in Rheingau from 1964 to 1976. Jakob von und zu Eltz was the maternal grandfather of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a former German Minister of Defence.
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Early life
Jakob von und zu Eltz was born in Kleinheubach, Bavaria, Germany. The son of Count Karl von und zu Eltz-Kempenich (1896–1922) and Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1900–1982). When Eltz was seven months old, his father died in a car crash, and his mother then decided to move to Vukovar, where Eltz spent his childhood and attended private schools. He studied agronomics and went to the study at Zagreb and then Děčín.
He was a member of the eminent Roman Catholic noble Eltz family which had ties to Croatia since 1736, when his family member Philipp Karl zu Eltz (Prince Elector and Archbishop of Mainz) bought the Lordship of Vukovar. The family owned several estates in Slavonia, including the Eltz castle in Vukovar.