Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen (politician, 1685)
Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen (born September 2, 1685 , † December 4, 1743 ) was the President of the Hesse-Darmstadt government and consistory.
Life
He was a son of Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1642-1702) from his first marriage to Esther Katharina Countess von Geyersberg († 1689). His baptismal witness was Landgrave Ernst Ludwig from Hesse-Darmstadt . He inherited property in Oppenheim , Wolfskehlen and Fränkisch-Crumbach from his father . He studied from 1702 and traveled from 1709 to 1713 to Germany, England, Holland, France and Italy. In the meantime, he acquired an Au on the Rhine for 3000 guilders from the Hesse-Darmstadt head hunter Hans von Utterodt. In 1711 he was a witness in the Kurbrandenburg entourage in the election of the emperor in Frankfurt. In 1714 he became a councilor in Darmstadt, in the same year he bought a quarter of the large and small for 5100 guildersTithes in Wolfskehl. In 1717 he sold various goods around Nierstein to the Mainz privy councilor and stable master Lothar Friedrich von Rollingen, about which there was a lot of dispute later. Like his father, he reached the highest offices in the Hesse-Darmstadt services, he was a privy councilor, government and consistorial president and court judge at the general court in Marburg. He was buried in Fränkisch-Crumbach, where his ornate epitaph is preserved in the Evangelical Church .
family
Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen was married to Dorothea Barbara von Utterodt († 1769) from 1717.
Progeny:
- Luise Johanetta Charlotte (1721–1737)
- Amalie Elisabetha (1720–1731)
- Dorothea Sophie (1722–1755)
- Ludwig Eberhard (1719–1782) remained unmarried
- Hans Weiprecht (1723–1781) ⚭ Maria Charlotte Ernestine Schenk von Schmidtburg
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 262–263.
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SURNAME | Gemmingen, Ernst Ludwig von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hesse-Darmstadt government and consistory president |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1685 |
DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 1743 |