The marriage was disrupted through antisemitic attacks because her grandfather, prominent banker Eduard von Oppenheim was a born Jew.
In 1935 Graf Roland and Alix-May divorced after the magazine Der Stürmer criticized her luxurious lifestyle and the words 'Die Oppenheim, das Judenschwein, muss raus aus Stein' (Oppenheim, the Jew-pig, has to leave Stein) were written on the family's castle, Faberschloss.
[1] Further, Anton-Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell was CEO and the owning family's representative for nearly 40 years in the eighth generation.
[2] He worked for a long time with his younger brother, Andreas Graf von Faber-Castell, for the family business.
He married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Hogan (born November 25, 1951, in St. Louis, Missouri), in Stein, Bavaria, on December 12, 1987.
In 1972, he joined the financial house Credit Swiss White Weld as an investment banker and worked in New York and London.