Eberhard von Gemmingen (1883–1952)

Eberhard Eduard Hermann Joseph von Gemmingen (born December 9, 1883 in Heilbronn ; † August 23, 1952 in Heidelberg ) was a Württemberg cavalry master , landlord in Babstadt and Imperial Knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

He was the son of Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1851–1928) and Annie Kaupe (1858–1904) and was born in Heilbronn, where his father was company commander of the fusilier regiment “Kaiser Franz Josef von Österreich, König von Hungary ”(4th Württembergisches) No. 122 . Like his father, he also joined the Württemberg army, with which he took part in the First World War and which he left as Rittmeister. On March 1, 1919, he married Hertha von Degenfeld , the daughter of the castle owner and Chamberlain August von Degenfeld, at Neuhaus Castle . The couple lived in Babstadt Castle . After the death of his father Ernst in 1928, he succeeded him as landlord in Babstadt, where the Gemmingen family property, which had arisen from the condominium of a family entails, has been managed since 1924 by a company founded by the former members of the Fideikommiss. By dividing the estate in 1926, his wife acquired Neuhaus Castle with the nearby Eulenhof and 288 hectares of forest and arable land. In 1928, Eberhard bought the nearby Rauhof with a further 54 hectares of land.

The art-loving Eberhard von Gemmingen has made many trips. His wife was critical of National Socialism and campaigned for prisoners of war. After she hid an English airman in World War II , she was arrested by the Gestapo and held in Heidelberg prison until the end of the war .

After the Second World War, the Americans occupied Babstadt Castle, whereupon von Gemmingen and his wife moved to Neuhaus Castle. The estate belonging to Neuhaus was managed from 1947 by son Pleikard, who after the death of his mother became the sole heir and at times headed the Gemmingen family association and the family council of the Kraichgau noble women's foundation. From Pleikard, who moved to the Rauhof in 1975, the property in Neuhaus, Eulenhof and Rauhof came to his son Michael, born in 1971, who now manages the goods from the Rauhof.

family

He was married to Hertha von Degenfeld (1894–1963) from March 1, 1919. Their son Pleikard (* 1919) came from the marriage.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 308.
• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966.
• Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991.