Eduard von Gemmingen

Eduard von Gemmingen (* 1807 ; † 14 May 1884 in Damm ) was the landlord of the Gemmingen-Steineggschen ancestral estates near Pforzheim, but in 1840 he sold these estates together with his brothers and acquired aristocratic estates in Lower Franconia.

Life

He was a son of the Steinegger lord of the castle Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1774–1842) and Anna Maria (Marianne) von Gemmingen (1781–1858), a daughter of the Steinegger landlord and councilor Franz von Gemmingen (1746–1797). The parents were only related through common ancestors from the 16th century, among whom the Steinegg line of the barons of Gemmingen had divided into two branches. Ritterrat Franz was the last male descendant of the Steinegg branch , his two daughters married to brothers from the Mühlhausen branch , whereby Edward's father Julius, after the childless death of his brother, united the entire extensive property of the Steinegg line for the first time, while at the same time through the Mediatization of the imperial knighthood areas many noble rights were lost. Eduard was born in 1807 as the third of four sons. He studied law in Heidelberg , where he sustained serious injuries when he fell from the ruins of Heidelberg Castle . His parents converted from Catholicism to the Protestant Church in 1823, Eduard was the only member of the family to remain Catholic. After taking the state examination in 1831, he and his brothers Gustav and Joseph took over the management of the ancestral family property near Pforzheim in 1836. After the tithe replacement in Baden around 1840, the brothers saw no future in their traditional estates and sold the family property in order to be able to acquire new estates elsewhere. Joseph (1804–1873) acquired property in Gernsbach , Gustav (1808–1895) in Unterbessenbach . Eduard acquired the Maisenhausen estate in Lower Franconia in 1844 and later the Damm estate near Aschaffenburg . In 1852 he married Maria von Kleudgen (1809–1874), the marriage remained childless. He has u. a. researched in the family history of the barons of Gemmingen and in 1840 discovered the tombstone of a Guta von Gemmingen who died in 1359 in the church of Unteröwisheim , who at that time could not be classified in the family tree. He died in Damm in 1884 after a long illness.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Heidelberg 1895, pp. 351f.