Hippolyt Baron Poschinger of Frauenau

Hippolyt Theodor Wilhelm Georg Benedikt Johannes Maria Baron Poschinger of Frauenau (born 19 June 1908 in Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire; died 20 July 1990 in Zwiesel, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German businessman, forest manager and politician.

[1] Poschinger was the son of the Imperial Councillor of the Crown of Bavaria Eduard Baron Poschinger of Frauenau and on his mother's side a great-grandson of the Bavarian Prime Minister Count Otto of Bray-Steinburg.

In 1930, he graduated from the University of Munich with a degree in forestry, and in December of the same year he took over the administration of his father's agricultural and forestry property on the Oberfrauenau estate, which had been badly affected by hurricanes and hailstorms the previous year.

[2] On 11 June 1938, he married Maria Immaculata Countess of Soden-Fraunhofen (1907-1989) in Windberg, with whom he had two sons and three daughters.

From 1968 until his retirement from the Senate, he was additionally a member of the administrative board of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting).