Adolph von Gemmingen

Adolph von Gemmingen (born May 14, 1822 in Mannheim ; † August 4, 1902 in Stresa on Lake Maggiore ) was the Grand Ducal Hessian Chamberlain and landlord in Fränkisch-Crumbach and Treschklingen .

Life

He was the third son of Rittmeister Sigmund Johann Nepomuk von Gemmingen (1777–1843) and Charlotte von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1785–1842). In Adolph's youth, the father was the guardian of the Baden princesses, who were roughly the same age as Adolph. He attended schools and boarding schools in Mannheim and Lausanne and studied from 1840 to 1843 at the Agricultural University in Hohenheim .

His father's property was divided between him and his two brothers Gustav (1813-1894) and Sigmund Reinhard (1819-1883). Gustav received Bürg , Sigmund Reinhard received Treschklingen and Adolph received Fränkisch-Crumbach. Sigmund Reinhard had no male descendants, so that after Sigmund Reinhard's death in 1883, Adolph also took possession of Treschklingen.

In 1855 Adolph was appointed Chamberlain for the Grand Duke of Hesse. In 1862 his wife Sarolta was awarded the Imperial Cross Order of the Star by Empress Karolina Augusta of Austria . In 1876 Adolph von Gemmingen received the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Ludwig .

family

The Sarolta Chapel in Fränkisch-Crumbach is the mausoleum built in 1892 for Adolph von Gemmingen's wife Sarolta

Adolph von Gemmingen married Countess Sarolta Batthyány von Németh-Ujvár (1822-1892) in St. Gróth Castle near Steinamang in 1845 , with whom he lived in Franconian Crumbach, where the couple were buried in the Sarolta chapel built as a mausoleum for Sarolta . The Sarolta School in the former Gemmingen Rentamt and the Saroltastraße in Fränkisch-Crumbach were named after Sarolta .

His descendants form the "2. Ast “(Fränkisch Crumbach) of the Treschklingen line of the barons of Gemmingen-Hornberg. Adolph's sons Karl and Otto left no descendants. Son Gustav had two children, but died before his father, so that Adolph's property passed to his grandson Adolph Anton von Gemmingen (1886–1963).

Progeny:

• Ernestine Sarolta Helena (1841-1926)
• Karl (1846–1923) ⚭ Gabriele von Gemmingen-Hornberg, Michelfelder Ast (1865–1940), embarked on an officer career, no offspring
• Gustav Weiprecht (1849–1897) ⚭ Viktoria von Wiser (1854–1914), administrative officer, most recently district councilor in Erbach
• Ernst Ludwig (* / † 1850)
• Otto Franz Sigmund Karl (1852–1892), remained single, died in Cameroon of tropical fever
• Sigmund Franz Karl (1853–1914), was a legal trainee for a short time, but from 1878 he devoted himself to philosophical studies and travel, buried in Stuttgart
• Franziska Ottilia (* 1860)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 306.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 296-299.
• Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3 .
• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Limburg an der Lahn 1966.