Alphons von Stockum-Sternfels

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Alphons Carl Christian von Stockum-Sternfels (born November 5, 1796 in Hanau , † July 20, 1857 in Germersheim ) was a Bavarian major general and commandant of the Germersheim Fortress .

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Tumba grave, Germersheim cemetery

He came from the baronial noble family von Stockum , originally based on the Lower Rhine , from which a branch of the family was called Stockum-Sternfels . His father, Friedrich von Stockum (1759-1834), served as the Hessian secret war council. The mother, Susanna du Fay, had been ennobled as a noble von Sternfels in 1788, before her marriage . They owned the Villa Stokkum in Hanau . In 1818 the family was registered in the baron class of the Bavarian nobility register.

Alphons von Stockum-Sternfels initially belonged to the Bavarian Cadet Corps , served as a second lieutenant in the 1st Bavarian Chevaulegers Regiment as early as 1813 and fought in the Battle of Hanau .

In 1840 he was promoted to colonel and commander of the 2nd Bavarian Cuirassier Regiment . In 1853 he was promoted to major general and commandant of the Germersheim Fortress.

Alphons von Stockum-Sternfels died here after a long illness, on July 20, 1857. He was buried in the Germersheim cemetery, where his Tumba grave is preserved.

Since 1826 he was married to Sally Cornelia Lavater, daughter of the Hanau businessman Johann Carl Lavater. The marriage resulted in five daughters.

The Bavarian Colonel Emil von Stockum-Sternfels (1792–1863), who as a young man still fought with the Lützow hunters and was therefore punished, was his brother. The sister Elisabeth Luise Oktavie (1800–1868) was married to the Hessian finance minister Gerhard Heinrich von Motz .

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , Gotha, 1875, p. 759; (Digital scan)
  • Anton JJ Schönhueb: History of the Royal Bavarian Cadetten Corps , Munich, 1856, p. 131; (Digital scan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the written sources, but according to the tombstone 1797
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, p. 51, Leipzig, 1870; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Maximilian Gritzner : Standes-Erhebungen und Gnaden-Acte Deutscher Landesfürsten , Görlitz, 1877, p. 204; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Flyer of the restaurant with the name of the father
  5. ↑ Hermann Emmel: The battle near Hanau on October 30th and 31st, 1813 in general representation and individual images , Hanau, 1863, p. 39; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Obituary, in: Allgemeine Zeitung Augsburg , No. 206 of July 26, 1857, p. 3297 of the year; (Digital scan)
  7. ↑ Obituary, ibid, p. 3342 of the year; (Digital scan)
  8. ^ Genealogical website on Johann Carl Lavater
  9. ^ Obituary Alfons von Stockum-Sternfels, in: Allgemeine Zeitung Augsburg , No. 206 of July 26, 1857, p. 3297 of the year
  10. ^ Obituary Emil von Stockum-Sternfels, in: Allgemeine Zeitung Augsburg , p. 5521 of the year 1863; (Digital scan)
  11. ↑ Petra Stumm: Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853): Life and Work of a Heidelberg Chemist , Springer Verlag, 2016, ISBN 3-86226-844-6 , p. 11, footnote 57; (Digital scan)
  12. ^ Hans-Werner Hahn :  Motz, Gerhard Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 230 f. ( Digitized version ).
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SURNAME Stockum-Sternfels, Alphons von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockum-Sternfels, Alphons Carl Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian major general, commander of the Germersheim fortress
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1857
Place of death Germersheim