Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1710–1775)
Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg (born July 16, 1710 in Darmstadt , † November 27, 1775 in Kochendorf ) was a field marshal-lieutenant in the imperial army and fiefdom of Kochendorf.
Life
Reinhard was the older son of the Hesse-Darmstadt privy councilor and later General Director of the Imperial Knighthood , Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1677–1750). Before he was 18 years old, he joined the 42nd Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Army and fought in numerous campaigns in Italy, the Netherlands and on the Rhine. In 1734 he was in Naples, in 1737 he fought against the Turks in the siege of Usiza. In 1739 he became a major in the Ouelli regiment and later in the Gaisrück regiment. In the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 he earned such merit that the English king offered him his own regiment. In 1745 he was a colonel and regimental commander. In 1755 he was promoted to major general. In the Prussian War he was promoted to field marshal lieutenant in 1757, was wounded in the battle on Holzberg and in the battle of Breslau and was briefly captured during the siege of Breslau . In the Battle of Hochkirch on October 14, 1758, he made a name for himself in the fight against Prussian troops and was then awarded the Military Maria Theresa Order . In 1759 he had a corps command on the Bohemian border, where he secured the retreat of the Ahremberg corps, but then had to surrender himself. At Pretschendorf he was taken prisoner again. He later became Lieutenant General Field Marshal in Brno, in 1769 he was given the Gaisrück regiment, until 1775 it was called Gemmingen .
Since the death of his brother Eberhard August (1717–1758) Reinhard was the sole owner of the castle fief in Kochendorf. In 1767, Emperor Joseph II awarded him another two thirds of the blood spell over Kochendorf. He died in 1775 and was buried in the church of Neckarzimmern .
family
From 1743 he was married to Sophia Friederica vom Stein (1715–1776), an aunt of the Freiherren vom and zum Stein . The connection resulted in nine children, but only three of them reached adulthood.
Progeny:
- Reinhard (1744–1772) was initially a Benedictine in Fulda, later in the military for a short time, then in mining
- Charlotte Luise (1745–1759)
- Franz Karl Friedrich (1747–1814) succeeded his father in the fiefdom of succession
- Franziska Dorothea (1750–1781) remained unmarried
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 272/273.
- Karl Hugo Popp and Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Reichslehens Kochendorf and its owners after the departure of the Greck male line . In: Bad Friedrichshall 1933–1983 . City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983
- Gemmingen zu Hornberg and Treschklingen, Reinhart Freiherr , entry in Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , Vol. 5, Vienna 1859, pp. 130f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaromir Hirtenfeld : The Military Maria Theresa Order and its Members , Imperial Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1857, pp. 1727–1728.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen-Hornberg, Reinhard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German imperial knight, military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1710 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1775 |
| Place of death | Kochendorf |