Hans-Lothar von Gemmingen
Hans-Lothar Hermann Ferdinand Ernst Karl von Gemmingen-Hornberg (born January 19, 1893 in Metz , † February 14, 1975 in Heidelberg ) was a German entrepreneur. He was managing director of the Röchling Group until 1962 , as well as a legal knight of the Order of St. John and from 1932 to 1972 chairman of the Gemmingen family association .
Life
He was a son of the Lorraine District President Karl von Gemmingen (1857-1935) and Hedwig Scipio (1867-1935). He attended schools in Forbach and Strasbourg and then studied law in Oxford and Göttingen . He was a member of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . In the First World War he took part in the Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19 as a volunteer. He suffered a serious wound in Russia from which he recovered in the hospital in Metz, which his mother directed. He then reported to the Posen Aviation Replacement Department, where he was a night flyer in bomb squadron 5 and survived four crash landings. After the end of the war, he continued his law studies and received his doctorate. Jur., Before he started a commercial activity in the trading company of his mother's family, Scipio, in Bremen .
After his marriage to Ellenruth Röchling (1900–1977) in 1922, he moved to the Röchling Iron and Steel Works, which was run by her father Hermann Röchling , where he soon moved up to the management team and became a partner in a Röchling company. During his time at Röchling, the Saarland was reorganized in 1935 and expanded into the occupied territories as well as armaments production with slave labor during the Second World War . After the end of the war, the French occupying power opened proceedings against the Röchling company management as part of the Rastatt trials, which were accused of exploiting the occupied territories and using forced labor. His eldest daughter, Ellenruth von Gemmingen, acted as the defense interpreter. Hans-Lothar von Gemmingen was sentenced to three years imprisonment, confiscation of half of his property and loss of honor.
He used his imprisonment in particular for genealogical studies on the family of the Barons von Gemmingen , whose family association he had been in charge of since 1932. He worked out a system for numbering family members within the various family branches and published several genealogical publications from 1949 onwards. As chairman of the family association in 1957/58 he also negotiated the acquisition of Gemmingen Castle by members of the family.
After the end of his imprisonment, he struggled to regain the Röchling factory in Völklingen, which was achieved with the accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic. He remained managing director of the Röchling Group until 1962 and was also a member of the supervisory boards of various banks and insurance companies.
He spent his retirement in Heidelberg.
family
Hans-Lothar von Gemmingen married Ellenruth Röchling (1900–1977), daughter of the steel entrepreneur Hermann Röchling and Theodora Müller , on August 8, 1922 in Heidelberg . There were four children from the marriage:
- Ellenruth Theodora (1923-2016)
- Karl Hermann (1924–1960)
- Hans Lothar Paul Eberhard (1926–2006) ⚭ Karin Wiebe (* 1936)
- Ingeborg (* 1931) ⚭ Hans Ulrich Gußmann (1920–1989)
Fonts (selection)
- Family tree and family tree of the Barons of Gemmingen 1910–1949 , Heidelberg 1949
- Ernst Freiherr v. Ellrichshausen, 1796–1855, and Mathilde Gräfin v. Beroldingen, 1807–1880, ancestors and descendants compiled , Limburg an der Lahn 1971
- Ernst Freiherr v. Gemmingen-Hornberg, 1795-1824, and Sophie geb. Freiin v. Degenfeld, 1800–1880, ancestors and descendants summarized , Limburg an der Lahn 1973
literature
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991, pp. 165–171.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.voelklinger-huette.org/de/die-roechlings-und-die-voelklinger-huette/der-rastatter-prozess/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Hans-Lothar von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gemmingen-Hornberg, Hans-Lothar Hermann Ferdinand Ernst Karl von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Managing Director of the Röchling Group |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Metz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1975 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |